Things to read

Note to OOPSLA '97 attendees: I moved all my technical papers out of Nonfiction into their own category, Ian's Technical Papers to make them easier to find.

Stories & other non-humor (some fiction, some true)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

• The Beacon by Ian Chai
• The Legend Revisited by Ian Chai
• Travelling Sideways by Ian Chai
• Ninety Degrees to Space by Ian Chai

Inspirationals

• Almie Rose
• An Incident at the Seattle Special Olympics
• Charlie's Blanket by Joe L. Wheeler
• To My Uncle Guiquita by Judy Maxwell
• The Teacher by Sister Helen P. Mrosia
• Anatomy of a miracle from LIFE magazine, March 27, 1950
• The Woman with the Rose by Anonymous
• The Odd One Out by Anonymous
• It's an incredible story... by Kenneth P. Wendling
• The Story Behind the Picture of the Praying Hands by Anonymous
• St. Patrick's Breastplate
• Palm Beach: the story of 5 modern martyrs
• Keep Your Fork
• The Titanic's Last Hero
• The Returnee as told by Chuck Swindoll
• A prayer for the children by Ina J. Hughs
• If I had my life to live over by Erma Bombeck
• Great Love by Michael Peterson
• The Rich Family In Church by Eddie Ogan
• Information, please
• The Ugly Fisherman

Other

• Parables for Modern Academia by Deborah and Loren Haarsma
• Christian Koans by Jonathan Hayward

Humor

• The C Bible by Ian Chai & Glenn Chappell
• Julie's Snack by Kendra Chappell
• Screwtape on the net by Anonymous
• The 8-fold path by Ian Chai & Anonymous
• Vulcan Analysis of the Human Race by Leonard Nimoy
• Heavy Boots by Anonymous
• What if Dr. Seuss did technical writing? by Anonymous
• The Plan by Anonymous
• Mother Mary by Kimberly Hahn
• Oxygen by Anonymous and Ian Chai
• Rapture by Ian Chai
• Revenge on the Obscene caller by Tracy Schuhwerk
• Grade Perspective by Edna
• Language Trends of the Future by Anonymous
• Connecticut by Anonymous
• Who's on First by Bud Abbot and Lou Costello
• Look, it's the year of the coffee bean by Keith E. Sullivan
• Reservations of an Airline Agent by Jonathan Lee
• Some thoughts on Elvis and Jesus by Anonymous (or, perhaps by A.J. Jacobs?)
• The String & Octopus Guide to Parenthood by Colin Bowles
• Make Money Fast! (satire) by Dave Rhodes
• What if God faced Red Tape? by Don Fox
• Beauty und der Beast modified by Ian Chai
• Exegeting a stop sign by Darren Harlow
• Psalm 23 for computer users by Pastor Baker
• Toaster Design by Anonymous
• Poe and Computers by Anonymous
• The wonderful (and surprising) world of French banks by Lysiane Gagnon
• A Parable for Our Times by Reverend Don Mackay
• Maybe the "St" in "St. James" stands for "Star Trek"? by Ian Chai
• Biking through the snow by Ian Chai
• William Henry Harrison by Columbia University Bartleby Library, adapted by Ian Chai
• Tandem Writing by Rebecca & Gary
• How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? by Anonymous
• Paper is Calm by Dan Sheppard
• Year 2000 Parable by Penny Pennington
• The Parable of the Rabbit's Thesis by Anonymous
• Hip Verbositude by Anonymous
• Not Raising Hogs by Herbal Spotlight
• What is a grandmother? by Sandra Demaria
• Why did the chicken cross the road? by various anonymous authors
• The Joy of Teaching by Anonymous
• The Hamster Chronicles by Glenn Chappell
• Dead Men Read No Mail by Scott Hanson
• The Bricklayer's Accident Report by Anonymous
• Trim Your Posts by Brad Appleton
• llicit Groundhogs by Deirdre Sholto-Douglas
• The Difference Between Men's & Women's Haircuts by Parul Agrawal
• MKs by Anonymous
• How the Daily Illini commemorates Women's History Month by the DI staff
• The Commandments of the Father by Ian Frazier
• What are you thinking? by John Scalzi
• What do you do all day? by a friend of Emily
• She likes her church by a teen at First Assembly of God in Danville, Illinois
• The oldest Year 2000 bug by Martin Suggett
• The Gullibility Virus
• Ruin Sorbees (yes, this is in English... I think)
• You should have seen the one that got away! retold by Ian Chai
• U.S. won't support Kosovo independence by Ian Chai and others
• The U2 puzzle
• Singalella Why Become Rich by some Singaporean
• A Professor's Schedule by a friend of mine
• The Difference between Men and Women by Nancy McCarley, Ph.D.
• Who's on Start?
• Whirlwind Bible Tour: A whimsically humorous and brief overview of the Bible
• Programming Religion by Michael Zastre
• The President's Place by Dick Armey
• Silly Similies
• Flying First Class
• Boy, it'd be great to be a guy!
• Microsoft TV dinner
• A little payback for AT&T by Mr. Byron
• Oz Paperwork? by Dave James
• The Bible in 50 words
• Don't Try This At Home! about Paolo Esperanza
• Space Pen by Penny Pennington
• You might be an engineer if...
• SCAM ALERT!!!!
• Also, check out my collection of funny recordings.

Nonfiction Nonstories

• Some great suggestions for teaching in classrooms by Dana Anthony
• Jude's letter translated by Eugene Peterson
• A Handmade Display of Lenten Devotion by Paul Wood
• A Sense Of Family (article about Virginia Coultas Sharp) by by Dan Kennedy
• Java Tutorial by Mary Campione and Kathy Walrath.
• Lyrics, music, and recording of Betapa Hatiku in Indonesian Malay and various translations
• HTML Special Characters chart
• Shepherd Advice by PLoP '97 participants
• Help Texts vs. Help Mechanisms: A New Mandate for Documentation Writers by Nathaniel S. Borenstein
• Lingua Franca by Brian Foote
• Debbie Lees' cancer saga by various people
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Steven Raymond

Ian's Technical Papers

• Pedagogical Framework Documentation: Research Proposal
• Visualesson Patterns: Lessons on how to use Visualworks 2.5
• Peppery Patterns: Lessons on how to use Habanero Version 1.0

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  Pedagogical Framework Documentation research materials

  These three sets of documentation describe how to transform a Java 1.1 applet into a Habanero 2.0 hablet. They use 3 different philosophies of documentation.
• Traditional step-by-step version
• Minimalist version
• Patterns version