Papers & Instructional

• Born Dropped Out, The Hippie Kid Stories. MPS Master's Thesis from NYU Tisch ITP, 2008.
• DIY Squared: The effect of the Web on the diffusion of how-to knowledge in terms of ingredients, capabilities, costs and instructions. Final Paper. Clay Shirky's User Generated Class. NYU, Tisch ITP.
• A Diverse General Set of Online How-tos
• Hot Tubbing: A tough love technique for keeping online communities healthy. NoEnd List. 1999
• How To Take the SDSU Ed. Tech. Comp Exams Standing Up. 1999
• Think Aloud Usability Testing, A Literature Review. 1999
• Co-Discovery Usability Testing of CD-ROM. MA Masters Thesis from SDSU Ed. Tech, 1999
• How was your week?: A Few Quick Tips for Hosting Corporate Sponsored Online Communities. 1998
• Using Personal Narrative to Grow Online Communities. SDSU. 1998
• Brief . on results of semester spend creating and staffing a help desk for distance students. SDSU 1997.
• Learning how to learn, exploration, and decentralized teaching of beginning computer skills at the college level. SDSU. 1997
• The Humanizing Effects of E-mail on K-12 Education. SDSU. 1997
  

Essays

• Hippie Holidays. Mom sheds some light on our hippie days. 2004
• Burning Mars. Is Burning Man doing NASA's research? 2004
• Salameandering (w/photos). How many environmentalists does it take to help a salamander cross the road? 2004
• Dot Gone Space Available (w/photos). 2001
• Goodbye to Teddy. Watching my grandmother die. 1999
• Dad Visits. My dad is 57. He's a lanky, disheveled Yankee. 1997
• The Web Garden. How personal Web sites are like gardens. 1997
• Jake the Jedi. A three year old at his first movie. 1997
• Upgradeitis. Wherein our hero battles a totally unessessary upgrade. 1997
• Back Yard. An Italian squirrel soap opera among the trees in Berkeley, CA. 1996
• Care Bear. Harvesting black bears in Maine. 1996
• Therapy and Cappuccino. Why therapists should be assigned to all city dwellers. 1995
• Living With Monkeys. The 10 commandments for roommates. 1995
• The DC-X Files: behind the scenes of the launch of the DC-X.1993
• Networking on the Bleeding Edge: A look at the Advanced Computing LANL. 1993
• Free Dose: Perspective pill at the hands of an old computer engineer. 1993
• Why this website?

Trip Reports

• 30,000 Pillows. Sundance Film Festival with movie reviews. 2003
• Dreamdance. Sundance Film Festival with movie reviews. 2002
• Take Me Home, Country Node. South By Southwest Interactive Media conference. Austin, TX, 2002
• The Tao of Strippers. When her nipple grazes your eyelash. 2001
• Rachel. A thread holding onto a draft of air. Mini Walkabout to LA, Santa Cruz, and SF. 1999
• Trip back east. Visiting MIT and a BIG wedding. 1998
• 1996/1997 walkabout around the US that was popular on the NoEnd list.
  1. San Diego. Family's are good.
  2. Druids in L.A. An L.A. Rave: Maybe these kids are on to something.
  3. L.A.?. L.A. is really not that bad. Like, really.
  4. Wiggle in the Grass. Of Goddesses and cats in Maine.
  5. Vulcans and Straw Houses. Straw bale house raising in Maine.
  6. I-40 West. Santa Fe to Venice Beach and an ivy covered abode by the sea
  7. El Capitan State Beach. The last night.
  8. The End. Landing in Encinitas, Ca
• El Farols. My favorite bar in America. 1996