E. Bear's Home Page
This page has had some odd experiences and sometimes the links will work.
Actually this is a "cobweb site" — not well maintained.
Where Am I? You are here.
My Favorite Mac Software
Subjects:
Art -- (I know something about art but I don't know what I like)Health -- (Health Care can be hazardous to your health)
Philosophy -- (Why do we do what we do?)
Politics -- (Who do you think you are?)
Drug Education -- (Why do we do things that stupid?)
Science and Computer Lab -- (Mad Science, Gizmology, Mackery)
Metal Shop -- (Low-Tech Stuff, 1924 vintage)
Home Economics -- (Cooking, Gardening, Domestic Animals)
Recess -- (Fun and Games, and "none of the above")
History -- (some Northern New Mexico, some techno)
Social Studies -- (Reference materials)
Study Hall & Library -- (Reference materials)
Music -- (hath charmth to thoothe the thavage beatht)
Religion -- (Your karma ran over my dogma)
Sports -- (Atlanta Braves? When did they leave Boston?)
English -- (The language with the most mojo, and the most chaotic)
Detention -- (stay after class and clean the erasers, or vice versa)
Extra-Curricular Activities -- (and maybe a kick in the virtual reality data pants).
Art:
( ! )Artsyness: "Nerd Defending a Starr case" by Pablum Picasso
See also The Museum of Taste
Health:
(the soap opera we're all caught up in)Toenail fungus gotcha? I've defeated it. Read toenails.html.
Harris Coulter tells us to beware of vaccines, particularly DPT. Food for thought.
Check out the Center for Empirical Medicine.
More food for thought: I have heard it alleged that AIDS came from a bad batch of polio vaccine.
And in an unrelated episode of this soap opera, some basic advice:
eat good stuff like rye, oats, olive oil, green things (including arugula).
Pesto is a good way to get your veggies; we do lots of it at my house.
And of course eating your veggies is a good way to maintain the health of your colon.
Click here to read more about that. Click here to read about your semicolon.
Just what are you eating anyway? Read the label.
If it says monosodium glutamate, consider not eating it.
MSG, as it's also called, is not food. Too much of it is poison.
For some people, any at all is poison.
The Four Food Groups of Hacking:
| Caffeine | Nicotine |
| Sugar | Grease |
Philosophy:
(What is the sound of one clam hopping?)Non-Trivial Quotes
What is stability these days? Having a permanent e-mail address? Food for thought.
Motto of the week: "VENI VIDI VELCRO"
"I came, I saw, I stuck around"
Drop me a line at ebear@zianet.com with your ideas for this section.
Meanwhile, here's one: Mañana (or Manana if your browser
makes different assumptions about character sets) --
it doesn't mean "tomorrow"; it means "not today".
Food for thought: a list of ponderables
Politics
(What is the point of one clammy handshake?)Stolen from Jim Hightower's "Hightower Lowdown":
Drug Education:
(What is the sound of one gram popping?)Position paper on the fiasco of drug education
and more discussion on the subject on the main(line) drug page
And a review by Roger Ebert of a movie about the drug business --
here's the header and first paragraph:
