Mike Padlipsky's "Personal Web Page"

Not the e-MAP Room or anything Webtrendy like that, just some MAPstuff

If you pronounce it "sextuple-u" you increase syllabic efficiency some 56%

Well, OK, LAFN went and made "personal Web pages" available for free, so I guess that trumps the inverted snobbery which has kept me from having a "home page" all this time. I still resent having to pay anything, even LAFN's modest fee, for visiting my grandchild, but whatthehell, Mehitibel, there are some things I'd like to be able to tell people how to find without having to rely on Edinburgh University and/or various local friends. And I still refuse to join the Bandwidth Bandits by pretending a "personal Web page" is a work of Art, so here's some e-minimalism....

The Literary Claims to Fame

If you want the Research Notes, complete with some pointers at the top back to the Edinburgh University malt whisky "pages", here's the plinkable:

"Mike Padlipsky's Research Notes"

and for the background piece to the RN's, plink:

Prolegomena to "The Malt and I"

also, for the new as of 12/01 Supplement to the background piece, there's

Supplementary Information and Illustration

For The Book, plink:

The Elements of Networking Style and Other Essays and Animadversions on the Art of Intercomputer Networking

(or if that doesn't work, just go to http://www.iuniverse.com and do an author search on ... guess what)

and if you just want to see the rededication page, presumably because you already have a copy of the original printing:

The Book's Rededication Page

But if you happen to want to buy it, please don't do it via Barnes and Noble (unless you own stock in Them, or something), which not only has a sweetheart deal with the nominal publisher that gives Them a large discount and lowers my royalty basis accordingly but also was listing it for $10 over what it should have been initially and took a very long time to correct that, without paying the nominal publisher the extra money and hence further denying me royalties as well as ripping off its customers.

And after a mere 43 years, The Thesis (a/k/a "The M.I.T. Thesis on Science Fiction") can now be seen, starting at

"More Than Pulp(?): Science Fiction and the Problem of Literary Value"

Other writings

Then there's the Annotated Bibliography old friend Bill whomped up:

http://world.std.com/~wdr/map-bibl.html
(and just in case it goes away at some point, there's a "mirror" at http://www.lafn.org/~ba213/billbib.html  )

And as time goes by I'll be uploading more and more of My Recent Stuff, and even some non-recent stuff (as of 2/05), mainly various Letters to Editors and submissions to OpEditors that They were too cowardly to print and even a few pieces that did see the dark of print, indexed at:

http://www.lafn.org/~ba213/edlets.html

Miscellany

In addition, there's the grab-bag category, the first of which being the documentation of my professional football career:

http://www.lafn.org/~ba213/rams.jpg

and the second of which is my semifamous Editorial Response that radio station KNX in Los Angeles actually did broadcast in October of 2003:

"Speaking of Not Listening"

For fellow nicopariahs

Finally, here are some plinkables that at least used to work, to others' work relevant to my main persecuted minority:

http://www.forces.org/articles/forest/forest04.htm [heavy-duty smoking stats critique]

http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/94_columns/052994.htm ['epa blows smoke']

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/03/08/wtob08.html [telegraph 'ets' article]

http://www.nycclash.com/ArticlesFolder/SAMMEC.html [sammec article]

http://www.forces.org/articles/files/sammec.htm [sammec critique]

http://www.forces.org/evidence/sammec/newproof.htm [sammec followup]

http://www.forces.org/evidence/files/martha2.htm [another take on the 400,000]

http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv21n4/lies.pdf [real biggie on sammec, ets, etc.]

http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/feb97/nicotine.htm [oldish benefits article]

Oops. Not quite done yet after all. If you found this without my having aimed you at it, you might want to know How To Get In E-Touch. Wonder if ba213@lafn.org turns out to be plinkable in this ancient htmlifier. (Yeah, looks right, anyway: once again we're reminded that obsolescent does not equal obsolete.) If it doesn't plink, or if LAFN "bounces" you, though, the.map@alum.mit.edu should work, even if I couldn't remember how I made the ba213 one appear to be plinkable a few months earlier when I first updated this "page" and it took around 3 years before I got around to making it right ... once again reminding us that MiddleMiddleAged Memory (MMAM, for possible/probable future reference) is not a good thing.