John Woods is a Software Engine.
At home, he is a ham-radio operator and a
talk.bizarre regular.
I no longer maintain an aperiodic post to sci.electronics entitled My List of Mail Order Electronics Companies, if you're interested in electronics components (resistors, not stereos).
And speaking of contributions to the world of knowledge, I just want to note, in passing, that it appears that my two most quotable comments are
"SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why you have to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain every now and then."and
"When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose."Of course, in the grand tradition of the Internet, the first one is rarely attributed to me, the second apparently never. And so it goes.
An update: a few people do attribute the second comment, but even better, a couple of web pages actually provide links to the original messages, back in the days of steam-powered USENET discussions: Re: Why is this legal?, and Re: Why is this legal? redux. And joy of joys, "the infamous nasal demons effect" was even cited in a discussion about tightening the wording of a part of the Ada standard.
You can get to "d. page's" talk.bizarre home page (now maintained by catbear) from here, as well as Miles O'Neal's Real talk.bizarre Home Page. Beware that the latter may profit from delaying image loading. You used to be able to once again examine the crude and nearly pointless Paul Vader voting statistics that are based on a handful of people (including yours truly) who evidently had nothing better to do but vote on which talk.bizarre articles they liked. But it died some time ago. It is interesting that the idea of article voting has been resurrected many times; what I always wanted to see was a way to declare (or better, automatically determine) which voters like the same kinds of articles you like so as to tailor your pre-digestion of a newsgroup. Maybe someone will try to implement that.
You can sample a few of my articles from talk.bizarre.
I also have a collection of bizarre artwork, some of which has been posted, some of which has never been seen by human eyes before.
You can view the collected artworks of talk.bizarre in my Art of Talk.Bizarre gallery.
For those talk.bizarre folks who were at the j.j and gnat wedding and want to relive the excitement, the joy, the horror, or for those talk.bizarre folks who weren't there and who want to vicariously experience it, I have put up my photos from the event on this web page here.
My photos from the MOUNT.BOB Talk.Bizarre Outrageous Bash can be found here. If you weren't there, at least you can gawk in wonder and terror at the pictures.
As the local webmaster, I periodically get to empty the chad box and review the HTTP logs. One of the items of information which is logged is the Referer URL, which some browsers send to servers to give some kind of hint as to what pages point to other pages. Of particular interest are the results of web searches, which indicate what kinds of open questions people have used my web pages to answer.
Of course, not everyone is interested in radio frequency interference, talk.bizarre, or food. And many people construct careless queries that rope in pages that have nothing to do with what they're looking for. So, I am collecting some of my favorite search hits in the Web Search of the Week Award Page.
Not everything worth reading on USENET is posted to talk.bizarre. For example:
Yes, now you can find out what I had for dinner most recently! And unlike other, inferior lunch servers, my dinner server routinely includes recipe information! Yes! You can eat what I eat!
Important Note: Some ungrateful people have pointed out that I now update this thing only once or twice a week, if I'm lucky. (OK, year, at the current rate...) This is primarily because it is very difficult to type while eating. However, I have (at least) backfilled some old items that didn't have recipes.
You can see the others who have web pages at Funhouse Associates at the Funhouse Associates main page.
Contact me at:
jfw@funhouse.com
