Negative Space: Jerry Stratton
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- Grant Morrison: “I didn’t know there was so much Satan worship going on. Satan gets around.”
- About Negative Space
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Negative Space was founded October 13, 1995, from the ashes of Cerebus the Gopher, FTP server extraordinaire.
- Are you the Jerry Stratton who edited the NAGEE?
- Baseball in the rain
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In 1980, after I bought a personal computer, I wrote a simple computer program in BASIC and sold it to one of the many magazines at the time. To the second-major newspaper of the area, this was a big deal.
- The Cartoon Guide to Recreational Drugs (213.7 KB)
- The Birds and the Bees do it, Pigs and Porcupines do it. But evidence suggests that humans are champion drug users. We are born with a natural urge to alter our consciousness. Children spin until they drop for the same reason that their parents drink alcohol. Nature requires it.
- Chapter 17: MEMOREX Trackball Program Disk: If used incorrectly, then the world will be conquered
- by Jerry Stratton; title by Wayne “Poet” Parillo
- Comic book scripts
- Comic book scripts to provoke violent thought.
- Cross-Cultural Implications
- It has been widely held that cultural studies offers means by which members of different cultures may interact without prejudice. With the advent of global computer networks, it may also become important to facilitate cultural interaction while retaining cultural integrity. Otherwise, “culture shock” may easily become a domestic disease.
- Fear and Loathing
- Don’t hate the convention; become the convention. “Her license said Massachusetts. Her eyes said addict. She’d blasted every red light between here and Boston, and the toad was by her side.”
- Identity
- On the Internet, no one knows who you are except by what you type. Some people even lie about their gender. How do you tell the good guys from the bad guys when you can’t see their hats?
- Jerry Stratton
- Jerry Stratton is a writer, blogger, and reader. You can read his works at the blog, Mimsy Were the Borogoves, the satirical newspaper The Walkerville Weekly Reader, and everywhere fine words are bought and sold.
- Men & Supermen
- Men & Supermen is a superhero role-playing game designed for a wide variety of characters, both of powers and power levels.
- Mimsy Were the Borogoves
- The official blog of Jerry Stratton.
- Proof that I lived in Hollywood in the eighties
- My half-second star turn in an eighties horror movie that looks like it’s from the seventies, The Sleeping Car.
- Release: The Dream of Poor Bazin
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A great journalistic adventure in the style of Dumas or Waugh, four hard-drinking reporters taking on the corruption, toadying, and even murder in America’s beltway.
- What Your Children are Doing on the Information Highway
- There’s something happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?
More Information
- Goodreads: Year in Books 2020
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I read 28,260 pages over 120 books this year, according to Goodreads. That’s down from 2019, but they were some great books.
- How to Become a Computer Programmer, According to People Who Did It
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“Programmers need life experience, an appreciation for design, and patience working with other humans. Computer Science degrees prepare you for the abstract, the ideal, in other words, things that never occur in real life.”
- Goodreads: Year in books 2021
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The most popular book I read in 2021 was Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. Of the 26,126 pages read, a lot of them were from the Foundation series.
