Stuff that I Wrote

Sometimes I think I should write something down, so I do. I post some of it here. You don't have to read it.

Prosaic Prose

• An Opportune Time (2020)


• Why the Rhinoceros Kicks His Dung All About (2013) (Alternate theory)


• Sorta the Brushoff (2012)


• What I Carried (2012)


• Best Laid Plans (2012)


• accidentalintelligence.log (2012) When I noticed the directory NotYou apparently hacked into my file system, owned by the nonexistent user with UID 65535, I panicked. Taking the system to supposedly secure single-user mode, I found that the directory contained the single text file, accidentalintelligence.txt. I extracted the relevant part of the log, but by now I have despaired of tracing the source of the intrusion. I have no idea what led to the sudden end of the story. If you have found another version of the story, particularly in a different language, or with some variation or additional information, please let me know. As far as I can tell, the intruder did not damage my system in any other way, but I continue to worry about some problem that may manifest later.


• Search for Intelligible Lifeishness in the Ambiverse (2012)


• solipsoquy (2011)


• ... along the road ... (1996 or 7) Not the Great American Novel. Not even the pretty good Minnesotan short story. Just a could-be-worse sentence fragment that I found in my head when I awoke one morning, along with a mental image. I couldn't paint the image, so I wrote down the sentence fragment.


• If only (whenever) The great lost novel. This would have won all sorts of prizes. It would have dazzled you. It would have made me a rich author, and an immortal. Really.

Poetic Cons

• Fibs are a cool sort of poems using Fibonacci numbers.


• American High Koo is a couplet form sort of derived from haiku, but not really the same.


• Haiku seems to be finely tuned to Japanese language, poetic custom, and culture, but I tried to do something sorta similar.