Mostly the same old junk! very little more spell checking... and TOM SWIFT BOOKS!!!

This site contains a bunch of stuff about someone you most probably don't know, might never want to know, wouldn't recognize if I crawled up on your shoulders and began yodeling — although that might be a give-away — and don't really give a rat's hindquarters about.

You lookin' at me?

The newest stuff on this site: Tom Swift books.

I became enamored with the "fan fiction" world of Tom Swift in late 2009. Of the five different series written, I tend to believe that the originals (100 years old as of 2010) and the "Tom Swift Jr." books of the 1950's - early 1970's are the best. CLICK THIS link to go to my Tom Swift page where you can see what I've been up to, and even order copies of the books.

If Tom isn't your thing, there are some other fairly good links, information and rantings about some of my favorite science fiction / fantasy and mystery authors (that's right... I try to stay clear of meaningful books. I believe that Moby Dick is just about the worst book ever written, and that if Melvill tried to get that drivel published today, his rejection letter would start off with, "Dear Really Crappy Hack;"), and info and some mp3 clips from — and about — different full-cast dramatizations (and comedizations) of sci-fi novels.

But... and please forgive me if my retirement has gotten in the way of recent updates, but I am so busy with the writing thing I have failed to do anyting with the site other than the book pages in the past couple years.

I am working on overcoming the heavy forces of personal inertia and hope to have updates sprinkling out in the coming weeks and months.

But, again, I am retired and that takes up a lot of my time!

• I've got the usual assortment of information about my family and a link to our larger, more attractive web site managed by my smaller, more attractive wife. If you are interested, you can even read about my newest toys.

This site was designed to operate as well as possible when you are using Netscape 4.7 or newer, and to operate as might be expected if you use that other browser. You know...the one that never seems to fully integrate new features, like Java, until an extra one or two revs?

It plays well with Safari.

Also, you will find some background music that may be played (located just to the left of this paragraph. It requires that you have QuickTime (Macintosh or Windows) installed. The music files are copyrighted, so don't go taking them and repurposing (which has nothing to do with dolphins) them on your own site.

Finally, there are mp3 excerpts on this site. (NOTE: I'll be adding an Australian comedy to the downoads some day).

They require that you have an mpeg level 3 player. I use to use the "AMP" products such as MacAMP and WinAMP. Today, and since I am on a Macintosh, I use iTunes. Download whatever you wish to use(and don't forget to spend way too much time looking for nifty skins for the ...Amp products.) WARNING: I heard bad things about WinAmp and Windows Media Player and how Microsoft is getting automatic downloads of what you are listening to through their latest version. I dumped my copies.