Other webpages by and about me

• My public online journal, where I sum up my life in a nice cheerful way every couple weeks or so. Well, supposedly every couple weeks. I haven't touched it since 2004. Maybe I'll pick it up again soon.
• More about me on the NBTSC wiki. (See below for a description of the wiki.) Features a bio, links to other wiki pages concerning me, and a list of things to ask me about.
• My previous webpage. I don't like the design, but there's some interesting stuff on there. Eventually I'll probably move it all here.
• My very first webpage. Laugh all you want. Once again, however, there's some good content.

My favorite resources

The websites I go to because I can't store everything in my head.

• Dict.org, a compendium of ten dictionaries, ranging from the 1913 edition of Webster's to Ambrose Bierce's Devils Dictionary.
• An alternate dictionary, for the really tough Scrabble games. Also has a translator and a thesaurus.
• Everything 2 or e2, ("ee too") is... well... everything. Sort of. It's an online community of people who enjoy trying to write everything down. They have a fascinating system of interlinking entries, and "Cool" the best entries so you can get to the funny and informative stuff faster than you can on Google.
• Speaking of, Google.com is the search engine all the cool people use. Why? Well, because on holidays they doodle on their logo, and you can set the language preference to "Swedish chef". (Bork bork bork!)
• Wikipedia is a community-edited encyclopedia, somewhat in the same genre as e2. I haven't spent nearly as much time looking around there as I'd like to.
• W3Schools is how I learned HTML and CSS and how you should too. Clear, interactive, and free.

Community

• Not Back To School Camp is a summer camp for unschooled teenagers, and has spawned a large community which ended up shaping my life.
• Old unschoolers don't die, they just go to Quo Vadis. Quo Vadis is a week long summer gathering for self-educated adults, which includes folk who were homeschooled in their youth and folk who weren't.
• Prescott College is where I hang out and who I give money, 2005-2008. It's wacky and liberal and has tiny classes and inspired professors and even more inspired students. I like it a lot, so much, in fact, that it has its own section on this webpage.
• Wiki was mentioned briefly above. It's a publicly editable space for NBTSCers and similarly minded folks to gather and yap.
• Craig's List was a brilliant idea when it started in the Bay Area and is still a brilliant idea today. It's basically the "personals" section of the newspaper online. My favorite sections involve jobs and free stuff. Various pieces of our furniture have come and gone due to craigslist.
• I had an internship at Center for Inspired Teaching in the summer of '06, and it was one of the hardest and most rewarding things I've ever done. They do workshops with public school teachers in the Washington D.C. area, using theatre games to teach educational theory. Working there did more to convince me that it is possible to teach and learn in a compulsory school than a lifetime of talking to people who were against homeschooling. Aleta Margolis, the founder and Executive Director, is one of my heroes.
• I currently (as of 2007) work at Prescott Fine Arts Association. They've been around for 37 years, and every single performance and gallery show is run by volunteers. They are pretty darn cool. Plus they pay me to hang out in a theatre. They get major points for that.

These are a few of my favorite people

• Vruba, sometimes known as Charlie. He thinks in very interesting ways about very interesting things. Always willing to help people mend their ways.
• Chris, sometimes known as Bluesbodger. His website is an excitingly evolving piece of work. He learned CSS and PHP much faster than I did.
• Pseudomammal is sometimes known as Platypus and sometimes as Nick. He goes to Reed College and does stuff with mouse DNA in latex gloves and a pirate sash. He is an evil influence.
• Roya hasn't updated her website in a while, but it's still fascinating. She is an artist, and her website focuses on her words and photography.
• Zack is someone I like an awful lot. His website features newly designed CSS, an impressive list of links, and some fascinating writing. He kisses well, but that's hard to tell online.
• Ryland's website features a lot of pictures of high mileage vehicles, motorcycles, straw bale houses, and woodwork.
• Aredridel has a webpage, which is good, because Aredridel is one of my favorite people.
• Joshua knows more than I do about lots of stuff, but still pretends to know less than I do about lots of stuff. I appreciate that in a friend.

The rest of my favorite people aren't as cool because they don't have websites.