Introductions

On this site, I'm an administrator and developer. If you have any questions or a cool idea for the site you'd like to discuss, feel free to contact me. I can also help with language and culture-related writing for a few languages, and am listed in E2 Hospitality Index. From 2005 to 2008, I was the Director of Operations here. I stepped down in November, 2008 to take care of other obligations. alex succeeded me in that position.

Outside of Everything2, I work as a freelance software developer, graphic designer and copy editor. At university, I'm in the interdisciplinary studies group, working in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. As time permits, I keep a fair bit of content at fragmentedzen.com, and occasionally tinker with digital art and classical guitar. If you're interested in any of this, send me a message!

Somewhere in between real life and text, I've managed to spend considerable amounts of time and travel getting to know folks from this site. Through E2, I've met many of my closest friends. If you've been here awhile, thanks for sticking around. If you're new here, welcome to the family! You're important to us.

Thank you.

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dann@stayskal.com

+1 (817) 723-2311

Arlington, Texas

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Some nodes worth reading

( We got the kind of games you can't rent at Blockbuster )

Life and Spirituality

• All the gold you can eat
• Choosing my confession
• Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• E2 is like a hamburger joint
• Everything is a Community
• Everything is true and nothing matters
• For Christmas, I made my Mom cry
• Fuck the models
• Grandma Heimstadt
• Happy Pizza
• Helping your kid brother die
• I am a pot roast
• I may dream in technicolor, but I trip the fuck out in old-school black and white
• I never ventured in the woods and got drunk and slept
• In front of the tv, numb, trying not to think about it
• I pray to God I can find the other sock
• I think you are my favorite today. Is that ok?
• Kiss me, you are beautiful. These are truly the last days.
• Lessons on life, love and things of utter importance
• Living alone, one is apt to prefer a view of water
• Now and just this moment, as is, in the present. Yes.
• Saturn Return
• She's so cute
• she's the reason the dust i finally leave will be better than the dust i came from
• Slaughterhouse tour, or Why I'm no longer a lawyer
• Somewhere, there's a universe with your name on it, spelled out in consecutive constellations
• Thanksgiving, suicide, and the breakdown of an already dysfunctional family
• The Couple, or so, Commandments
• The day I realized how sane I really am
• the lost sky-line
• The mystic need for solitude
• The only witness to a suicide
• This is our place
• Tiny sections of time which curl into memories
• trying to be a feminist
• Tunnel in the Key of G
• Twenty-three good things about pickles and dirt
• We are the servants of our muse, and we toil where she commands
• We'll drink cheap wine and watch for shooting stars
• When being chased by CIA trainees, don't mention Belgium to the waffle house physicist
• When did you choose to be left-handed?
• When we finally fall, it will be fast and sure
• Why I became a writer
• Why I torched the Crack House
• Words of Advice for Young People
• You'll be something special one day. And you -- you have to take care of your sister.
• Zen and the Art of Hacking

Music and Film

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• A tale of two organs
• Amelie
• David Lynch
• Home recording on a budget
• Jazz
• Music and Europe in the 17th Century, Medieval to Modern
• Post-rock
• Recording Ban of 1942
• Sigur Ros
• The art of the mix tape
• The Fight Club / Calvin and Hobbes Connection
• The Incredible Hulk
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate
• Vocal percussion

Poetry, Prose, Fiction

• Alien abduction
• A Photographer's Tips On Writing
• ((Cover))
• Diary of a Cereal Killer
• Elle sourit en apprenant que la fin du monde approchait.
• Emits showers of sparks
• Fear makes a man kill what he loves
• For a boat of white bone, and we three
• Good weather for airstrikes
• Guns don't kill people. Robots kill people.
• Happy Birthday From Planet Motherfucker
• How I became king of the world
• How to build a theft-proof lawn gnome
• I am forced to smoke my cat
• I like my cat
• I was tired. It was late. She was Russian.
• I will take one ticket please to whatever you have to say please keep talking
• In timeless valleys full of stars
• LODIS
• My soul is so viscous, I fear it may never pour out
• Robot is to follow the sun
• Searching for signs of life in the bottom of a cup of cold coffee
• She is stupidly keeping herself a secret, when I know she has sparkly things to show me
• Some particles just shouldn't be accelerated
• So this one-legged man walks into a bar
• sqrt(-1), sqrt(-1), sqrt(-1), sqrt(-1), canta y no llores
• Standing on a mountaintop in northern Siberia under the rapidly descending bulk of asteroid McAlmont, with a calculating expression and a baseball bat
• Steal Everything (Six by Six)
• The Dangers of Dating Smokers
• The pieces finally fit together, the pieces finally fall apart
• The Serial Killer Jailbait Airline Lotto
• The terrorists have already won "ANY BREAKFAST BAGEL SANDWICH" at McDonald's!
• There's nothing more depressing than an empty mailbox, especially today
• This ocean is angry but I might live through it
• We are a people in whose bodies old sea-seeking rivers roar with blood
• We make lights to answer the stars
• Why the willow weeps

Politics, Economics, and Military

• 1000 Hours Deluxe American Superwar Gold!
• An eyewitness account of the Nagasaki bombing
• Another gray face for your new war
• A Sniper in Every Minaret
• Arguments for the Perceived Impending Revival of Imperialism
• The Bible and same-sex marriage
• Computer games banned in Greece
• Economic problems in the Roman Empire
• Eight Myths of Economic Globalization
• the Federal Reserve and inflation
• The growth of Islamic terrorism
• Guns don't kill people, I like mayonnaise
• The Knowledge Militia
• Iraqi claims on Kuwait
• Israel is a terrorist state
• L'Antiamericainisme en France
• Meek and obedient you follow the leader down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel
• O Freunde, nicht diese Töne
• Russia and the West
• The Pot and Kettle War
• REMFS
• Socialism With A Human Face
• Terror and Liberalism
• To the Man on the Hill
• To the peace movement, on the night of its failure
• The United States should go to war with everyone
• Us vs. Them
• War in Iraq, pacifism, and the real world
• You are not special. You will die here, too
• Your Ending Here

Science, Medicine, and Technology

• A case study in genetic ideation
• As a matter of fact I did invent the Internet
• Building an ICBM out of matchstick heads and PVC pipe
• Can we cure AIDS?
• Consumer quantum mechanics
• Dinosaur reproduction
• Ego Defense Mechanisms
• Egyptian Division
• The Eugenics Problem
• Filesystem performance tweaking with XFS on Linux
• Global warming
• How to destroy the Earth
• How to land a jet plane on an aircraft carrier
• Inferiority complex
• Internal combustion engine
• Learning a language
• Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Problem of Other Minds
• Memory
• Microsoft's ActiveX idea, it must now be conceded, is a bad thing.
• Modelling physical systems
• Nazca Lines
• Neural network
• Peak oil
• Presocratic Greek Philosophers
• The programmer's dilemma
• Sanskrit and Mathematics
• Sharing an internet connection with Linux
• Some thoughts about the Language of Thought
• That Thursday the Universe was curved in the morning and was flat again by afternoon
• The top secret of talking like an American
• Unsharp Mask
• We are starstuff
• We're all missing the point on computer security

Society and Culture

• Age, Sex, Location
• A Prayer for Everythingians
• A Thousand Points of Light
• Buying lingerie for your girlfriend - the definitive guide
• Dumpster Diving Food 101
• Fighting Despair
• Heraclitus and language
• How to have an out of body experience
• I'm a verb; I do things.
• It's the cracked ones that let light into the world
• Jennifer Love Hewitt's gratuitous cleavage for the extended duration of your ritual defecation
• Life in the American business world
• Manufacturing Consent
• My interview with the gay porn star
• She's so cute
• Shoot for the stars
• Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
• The good, the bad, and the skinny on hugs
• The Great Advent Antiphons
• The principles of nuclear weapon safety and meeting girls are remarkably similar
• The Secret Lives of Girls
• The six rejections game
• United States v. Lucite Ball Containing Lunar Material
• Today Is the Tomorrow You were Promised Yesterday : 200 years of Information
• Two nations divided by a common language
• Unhealthy views of female sexuality
• Walk behind a woman
• We don't talk about those sorts of things
• When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
• Why are new books so expensive?
• Your organic hemp shopping bag alone cannot save the world

Wanderlust

• 23 Days in Bhutan
• A day in the life of Everything, Kansas
• Australia
• Banned from the USSR
• Canada
• Ciudad Juarez
• Ethiopian greeting etiquette
• Eyes in Romania
• Getting around in China
• How to get to Antarctica
• How to ride long distances in a car
• Icelandic Pronunciation
• Iraq
• mulespotting
• Nunavut
• Things I had not seen before coming to America
• Things nobody tells you about the south pole
• Two Tiny Knives

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Remember

Adam Purcell · E2 FAQ · E2 Gatherings

Realize your connection with the infinite