This is the index to the information I've made available on the World-Wide
Web. Here are the pointers to the information resources that I maintain,
and some other related bits and pieces. It's divided into four categories.
"Behind every musician lurks a man fully as interesting as the art he
pursues." -- Deems Taylor
[Personal] |
[Organizations] |
[MUD Info] |
[Amusement] |
[Friends]
Last revised on May 15th, 1997.
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Note: These pages are designed to load quickly and look good on any
browser, while still providing a little bit of color. At some point in
time, I may consider providing alternate forms of these pages with
more graphics, but for the moment, fast and simple seems
to be the rule of thumb, particularly since I've discovered, by
looking at the timelapse between same-site accesses of linked pages,
that most people scroll rapidly through pages, clicking on link after
link, until they get to what they want. Thus, speed-of-access is a
primary factor in the design of these pages.
All of my more heavily-accessed webpages have moved off this
machine at Penn. All the links should still work; don't be surprised if
you're pointed off to pages on
theurgy.digex.net:8000,
or, in the case of the MUD Resource Collection,
www.godlike.com -- they're
still being maintained by me, just on different machines. The rest
of this hierarchy is slowly migrating to my
home page at DIGEX.
I welcome comments, suggestions, and other feedback; please
sign my
guestbook!
Putting It Together
Every moment makes a contribution,
Every little detail plays a part.
Having just the vision's no solution,
Everything depends on execution:
Putting it together --
That's what counts.
(From Sondheim's Sunday in the Park With George)
The Home Page
-
More than you really ever wanted to know about Lydia's life. Includes a GIF,
taken with an IndyCam and thus a little too dark. Last updated 2/11/97.
The truly bored or curious can read my biography.
- The Webmaster/Sysadmin's Virtual Bookshelf
-
I've put together a lot of resources related to my job, systems
administration, webserver support, and WWW design in general.
- Roleplaying
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Roleplaying games are my most time-consuming hobby, both on-line and
off-line. This set of pages is devoted to my characters and campaigns
(three Ars Magica Sagas, a Pendragon campaign, two
Amber Diceless Roleplaying campaigns, and a combination
Aria and Harnmaster campaign)
as well as resources I maintain (for Ars Magica, Pendragon,
the RPGA Network, and more).
- Resume
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A hypertext-format resume. I also do WWW, general Internet, and UNIX
consulting. You can also check out the list of my
favorite UNIX-related books.
- Quotes
- My favorite books, my favorite quotes, and various thoughts about life.
- Scene Settings
- Atmospheric music for roleplaying games and similar uses. This is a
breakdown, by category, of classical music and soundtracks useful as
background music for roleplaying and other mood-setting purposes.
- The Musicbox
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Information about my CD collection. Eventually, this will include my complete
personal catalog, plus reviews. As part of my other interests (see below),
I've also got a page listing Music for
Gaming. (Both of these projects have been put on a likely-permanent
hiatus in favor of the Scene Settings project, above.)
- Internet Journal
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This is my personal hotlist of useful or interesting things on the Net.
It was originally created for a Wharton course that I took in the Fall of '94,
Computer-Mediated Communication
(OPIM 314). I've updated it occasionally
since then. Also, one of my courses for the Fall of '95 was
Communications 134
Introduction to the Information Age. Curiously, there
was zero relationship between this and the Wharton course. I'm keeping
my personal pages of stuff for that course on-line, as well.
More Quotes
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter
how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn;
whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've
chosen to go.
Whatever enchants, also guides and protects. Passionately obsessed
by anything we love - sailboats, airplanes, ideas - an avalanche of
magic flattens the way ahead, levels rules, reason, dissents, bears us
with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love,
we're boats becalmed on the seas of boredom, and those are deadly...
(From Richard Bach's The Bridge Across Forever)
Penn Gaming Guild is an official student organization dedicated to
roleplaying games and related activities like the
collectible card games, such as
Magic: The Gathering.
Check out our home page for details. Some of
our past activities are summarized below. I'm the founder; currently
Bill Brickman is coordinating
its activities.
My personal roleplaying pages have grown to a number where they now
warrant their own index,
Lydia's Roleplaying
Pages.
About Smilies
Ease up on the smileys, guy. Everytime I read your letters,
I can't help visualizing an extremely articulate, obviously
intelligent, grinning demented chipmunk, banging away at a
keyboard.
(Jeff Wilder, in a message to the patternfall mailing list)
The MUD Resource Collection
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A general page of information about MUDs. Contains links to the FAQ, to
all major MUD FTP sites, to the USENET rec.games.mud.* hierarchy of
newsgroups, to the document collections and other resources available
through Gopher and the Web, and other bits of useful fluff, including
lots of stuff about MUD research and academic applications.
- The Almost-Complete List of MUSHes
-
Every known public MUSH on the Internet, including a list of what's under
construction. Includes registration information, contact addresses, links to
home pages and FTP sites, and links to MudWHO. There's also an
Automatic List which summarizes the entries and
provides up-to-date information about their status.
- The MUD Home Page Collection
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A collection of links to the home pages for various MUDs.
- Recent Changes
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Recent changes to these MUD pages.
- Star Wars Links
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Things related to Star Wars: Galaxy MUSH, where I play Princess Leia.
- PatternFall MUSH Links
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Many things related to PatternFall MUSH and my character of Vialle.
- Amber Parodies
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A collection of parodies of Roger Zelazny's Amber novels, particularly
those related to AmberMUSH.
- AmberMUSH Player's Guide
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A useful reference for all AmberMUSH players. I play
Deirdre there,
and built the shadow Parys.
Scott Adams on Dilbert
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From a net-repost of an article Scott Adams (the "Dilbert" cartoonist) wrote
about the sex appeal of Dilbert, and, indeed, computer geeks in general.
- Mime's Invisible Box MUSH
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From rec.games.mud.tiny: MibMUSH is a parody of MUSHes, particularly World
of Darkness ones.
- Disney Heroine's Roundtable
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From rec.arts.disney: An amusing 'roundtable' discussion between recent Disney
Heroines (Ariel, Belle, and Jasmine), moderated by Snow White.
- Violinists Have Bigger Brains
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Really, they do. This is an authentic news article.
Most of the people I know are on the Net. That's sort of scary, in
a way... For starters, my housemates all have home pages.
Castle Amber (aka, The Madhouse):
Sheryl Galchutt,
Josh Hall,
Fred Hicks, and
Scott Morgan.
My list of links to friends is much too long for this index page; it has a
page of its own.
Also, I have a very cute younger
sister
The One-Question Geek Test
If you get the joke, you're a geek.
Seen on a VW Beetle's California license plate: "FEATURE"
Lydia Leong / lwl@graphics.cis.upenn.edu / July 31st, 1994