Jerry's Personal Home Page

Welcome to Jerry's Home Page

At any time, click on the dog to return back to this page.

Yes, this could be fancier, but this works, and it still should work with all the browsers out there, in one way or another. (8-)

Personal Stuff

Here's my Starship Jockeys - Full Thrust page, a game of starship combat in deep space, using the Full Thrust system.

Related to Starship Jockeys is the website for Ground Zero Games - East Coast Convention.

LightYear - Strategic/Operational Starship Game

Who the heck I am

Uhhh, I got married...

University of Waterloo Course Schedule

Quotes from my signatures

My work with the Staircase Theatre

Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
More info on primes
My contribution

Folding@Home
What the Warpfish Anglers are doing...

Personal Essays

A former professor of mine once refered to the WWW as a type of sanctioned electronic voyeurism. I suppose this is my small, minute contribution to the tangled mess the WWW is today.

I don't know why I put these rants up here; I doubt anybody other than a few of my friends will take the time to read them. Maybe its a type of electronic catharsis. Or maybe I get a thrill about revealing opinions to other people. Sounds like voyeurism indeed.

Most likely, its some twisted combination of both.

There's also the growth facor -- reading carefully, one can see how much I've changed in certain areas, and how I've stayed the same in others.

I've started a new series of essays: The Warpfish Chronicles. It'll be interesting to see how far I get in maintaining this one.

For something a little quicker to read, try Warpfish Stories

My favourite poetry...
Observations Archive
Essays on Computers and Society - CS492

The Warpfish Stories
The Warpfish Chronicles

Other Essays (Not necessarily by me):

The Geek Code

Last Updated: Fri Aug 9 19:29:04 CDT 2002

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Keirsey Temperament Test

People have asked me what my Temperament is. I've taken several different versions of the test several times over the past couple of years, and I keep bouncing back and forth between INTP and INFP, with the P occasionally a borderline call. I guess the composite would be along the lines of INXP, with the appropriate subtraits, depending on time of day and all that stuff.

The funny thing is, I can usually fake being an extrovert, until something comes up or I get tired, and then I disappear into my shell. It's a real bummer at parties. (8-(

Take a look at: The Keirsey Temperament Sorter.

What's an INTP/INFP?

Nerdity Test

For the first time in my life, I took the test and my score dropped: I'm now at 63.6%. (August 3rd, 2002).

My highest score ever was 65.4%, when I did the test sometime in early 2001. The difference is that I'm finally starting to forget all the higher mathematics that I don't use anymore.

What do you score?

Artistic Ending

I will leave this for your consideration:

Excerpt from Ulysses, by Alfred Lord Tennyson

...Come, my friends
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.