Since these images are so varied, I decided to use one background for half the screen, and a different one for the other. The background you see here is Julian Lennon's rendition of his friend Lucy, in the sky, with diamonds.
Additionally, if you just
cannot get enough "Lucy"'s (Australopithecine chicks rock), here is Lucy,
in the Field, with Flowers, courtesy of the Museum
of Bad Art in Boston.
Yes, I am weird. I
am studying to be a physicist. I particularly enjoy computer modeling
and have spent the last three summers working in a computational
physics group. In 1998 I helped put together a presentation on
presentation
on squeezed states that includes some pretty cool animations done by
me. This year, I spent most of my last
summer before grad school slogging through the process
of turning my undergraduate thesis into two papers.
I finished one paper on stochastic ratchets and superconductor
fluxons and I'm still working on a second paper on
a novel behavior in superconductor channels.
Even better than Quake,
for my money, is Warcraft
II. In the course of a very bad year, I played an awful lot of
this game. I have, made several levels myself, and have placed them
on the web so that anyone who wants can download
my levels. Current I get my game fix playing Warcraft
II's pseudo-sequel, Starcraft.
It's another excellent game from Blizzard
Entertainment.
I also like Star
Wars a great deal. The new versions are cool but there will always
exist a soft place in my heart for the originals. While you're in the process
of watching internet movies, you must of course check out The
Spirit of Christmas, the internet movie that launched one of my favorite
shows, South
Park. For those of you who are "culturally" impaired, there
exists The
Annotated South Park. Not everything in it is correct, but at
least they tried.
I do venture outside the
tactical realm in my gaming, and my current strategic gaming interest in
an excellent game that started out in the days of shareware, Stars!.
I've been playing my current game over the internet for many months now,
against seven other players. Of course, even the best
games fall way short of a good book, and when reading time comes I love
reading great literature and hard science fiction. For hard sf I
turn to Analog and
some of my favorite books.
I like Quake.
I like most games from id
Software. I don't like Forest Gump that much, though. Run,
fiend, run! 
Apparently, I'm not the only one who cannot wait for the next installments
of the Star Wars saga.
Kevin Rubio has put together Troops,
a Cops take-off set in the Star
Wars universe. What makes it hysterical is that the special effects
are excellent, truly capturing the look and feel of the genuine article.
Since I like Star Wars
and video games, it should come as no surprise that I like the Wing
Commander Series from Origin.
