Welcome to the homepage of
Dennis Paul Himes
a.k.a. Pablo
a.k.a. Caesariatus
a.k.a. Cumulus
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new, as of 7 March 2010:
another trail log and
picture gallery
new, as of 31 January 2010:
another trail log and
picture gallery
new, as of 31 January 2010:
another commentary on
the Atheist Apology
new, as of 31 January 2010:
some more Shenipsit
pictures
new, as of 9 January 2010:
yearly update to my
New Century's Resolutions
new, as of 9 January 2010:
another commentary on
the Atheist Apology
new, as of 9 January 2010:
another trail log and
picture gallery
Personal stuff
Prose
Poetry
The Raisinbread Webspace
VRML
Games
People
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These are all labeled "copyright 1996" or later
because this is the first time they've been presented to the public, but
they were really written at various times since the early 70s.
I would recommend starting with either Sunday Afternoon,
126 Kisses, or A Diamond Found on Paradise, depending on what
length you'd like.
- 126 Kisses (58K)
- a summer romance in the 29th century
- The Captain (6K)
- based on a dream
- Clara (67K)
- my Carrollian story
- A Diamond Found on Paradise (182K)
- "It's vra, as the gladifers would say, it's fitting that I
wear it, in fulfillment of its discovery's serendipity."
This is the most recently written one here.
- The Feast of St. Valentine (8K)
- an odd one
- Glades (1K)
- based on a dream
In the dream I was writing Glades. When I woke up I wrote down
what I had written in the dream as accurately as I could.
- Sunday Afternoon (9K)
- possibly my favorite
This was an unusual story in that I did not struggle with it. In
less than a week it went from an image of a woman drinking
tea on a rainy day to the finished work.
- Suspended Sentence (33K)
- an extensive rewrite of one of my earliest stories
Gladiology is the study of gladifers, the dominant species in the
galaxy in the setting of some fiction I am writing, and related subjects,
including their language. The language section is the most complete.
These are some of my poems, also
written at various times since the early 70s.
- Black & Ice
- a moment which stayed with me
- Chains of Thought
- as they sometimes happen
- Cheryl
- the current avatar of Venus
- Cheryl Again
- the sequel
- I Am, You Know, She Said
- a simple one
- Two Planets
- Jupiter and Venus
- We All Like to See Her Smile
- probably my favorite
Raisinbread is a novel I am currently writing, set in the year 2260.
The Raisinbread Webspace
is a hypertext guide to the setting of the novel.
It does not have any of the plot in it,
but descriptions of the people, nations, religions, etc. of the time.
These are some VRML worlds I've created.
You'll need a VRML capable browser to look at them.
These were created using software tools from Cadkey which I helped write.
Specifically I used version 7.5 of the Advanced Modeler, which was completed
in June 1996 but never released, and a prototype version of SiteSculptor,
a VRML authoring tool which was being developed by Cadkey and is now being
developed by Sculptware,
a company I helped found.
The icosahedroid is untouched output from the AM (via Picture It).
The geometry of the chess pieces are also from the AM, but the file was
hacked to make it more efficient.
The hill was created using both the AM and SiteSculptor, and the lots and
lake using SiteSculptor. The hill and lots were further hacked to mimic
features which were in the release of SiteSculptor, but which were not
yet implemented when I made the models. The lake is untouched output from
SiteSculptor.
These are all VRML 1.0 models. VRML 2.0 models are, in theory at least,
forthcoming.
- an icosahedroid
- a chess position
- This is from Takagi-Himes, 2 Nov. 1994, right after I took his pawn on d4.
I won a brilliancy prize for this game.
- a hill
- a lot for New George Town
- New George Town was a zone in
Terra Vista,
a Virtual Community which is now defunct.
- a pavilion
- This is a more elaborate version of the lot. It contains links to most of
the other models. It's the most elegant model here.
- a lake
I had taken over the directorship of
The Greater Hartford Chess Club
from Dave Aldi before its demise, but it's no longer with us.
Arlington is a card game which I invented. Here are the
official rules.
Oh Hell is a card game I've played quite a bit of. It's a very good game in
spite of its stupid name. These are the
rules as played by the Pratt & Whitney East Hartford Cafeteria Card
Players' Club.
- Ginevra di Benci
- as portrayed by Leonardo da Vinci
- Irenis Concepcion
- my granddaughter
- Three Himeses, a Cook,
and two Concepcions
- my family
- Dennis Paul Himes
- myself
- Heather Nova
- and a dead tree
- Nina Paley
- self portrait
- Mary Kay Place
- as Loretta Haggers
Homepages
I really have more friends than this (and more relatives).
They just don't have homepages.
- the late Basil
- who was really more of a dog than a person
- Terry Leigh Britton
- I used to sit bored in class in high school and then hear Terry's flute's music finding its way into the room.
- the late Charlie Cook
- my father-in-law -- This is my daughter's eulogy for him.
- Jacinda Harold
- my niece
- Sara Hickman
- my daughter-in-law
- Julia Rachel Himes
- my wonderful daughter
- Brian Kosnoff
- another hiking chess player
- Judy Milardo
- the soprano
- David Sobel
- my nephew
- Dan Xenatro
- Mr. Dan
I don't know these people. They just have cool homepages.
- William H. Calvin
- the neurophysiologist and author
- Terrence Donnelly
- the creator of Zyem
- Laurie Hopkins
- who writes the best web journal I've ever come across
- Mimi Ilano
- an artist, in the best sense of the word -- This is the single coolest
site on the web.
- Josh Marshall
- American political writer
- Mark Rosenfelder
- the creator of Verduria and the Language Construction Kit
- Justin B. Rye
- the chronophysicist and xenolinguist
- C.Z. Warnes
- Zed
There're other sites I end up visiting that often, but these are the ones I
make a point to.
Comics
- 9 Chickweed Lane
- a newspaper comic which my local papers unfortunately do not carry
- Freefall
- This would be an ordinary comic except that the setting in general,
and the character of Florence Ambrose in particular, are very well thought
out.
- Pibgorn
- which could be described as a fairy tale if that weren't totally
misleading
- Sluggy Freelance
- the best comic around, online or off
- xkcd
- pushing the limit as to how high the ratio of writing quality to
artistic quality can go in a comic
Photography
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- from NASA
- BBC in Pictures
- pictures from the BBC
- Bob's Pics
- my favorite hiking photography site
There are a lot of good hiking photography sites besides Hiker Bob's.
These are a couple of the best.
- MichaelJ's
Gallery
- MichaelJ has an advantage over other hiking photographers in
that he usually hikes with a very beautiful woman.
- Poison Ivy's Pictures
- The Cloud Appreciation Society
- Look up and marvel.
Journals and blogs
- Language Log
- a multi-linguist blog
- Miromi
- Mimi Ilano, an artist, in the best sense of the word --
This is the single coolest site on the web.
- Notes and Comment
- Ophelia Benson (et alter), with some clear thinking
-
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
- Laurie Hopkins, who writes the best web journal I've ever come across
(which is unfortunately dormant)
- Talking Points Memo
- Josh Marshall, American political writer
- To Wit
- Colin McEnroe, blogger in the Land of Steady Habits
- Zompist's E-Z rant page
- Mark Rosenfelder
Cetera
- The Atheist Humanist Society of Connecticut and Rhode Island
- formerly Norwich Atheists
- The Borowitz Report
- political humor
- Connecticut Valley Atheists
- Imagine no religion.
- Mathematicians of the Day
- from the MacTutor History of Mathematics site
- On This Day
- from the New York Times
- Rocks on Top
- people whose idea of fun is lugging weights up hills over uneven
ground
- Bookmarks
- my Firefox bookmarks, basically -- This is what Mosaic
calls a "hotlist" and what IE calls "favorites".
- Google
- my current favorite sitefinder
- Internet FAQ Consortium
- Usenet FAQs
- Internet Movie Database
- who did what in which movie
- Langmaker
- a site profiling conlangs, i.e. languages which were invented by
someone, or some group of people, as opposed to languages which arose
naturally
- MapQuest
- online street maps
- MathWorld
- mathematical references from Wolfram Research
- Merriam-Webster OnLine
- the dictionary
- Omniglot
- a comprehensive guide to writing systems
-
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
- what it says
- The Weather Underground
- a meteorlogical site, not a political one
-
The 48 Summits
- This is the coolest picture gallery I've seen.
- American Atheists
- Atheist activism
- The Free Internet Chess Server
- I'm Caesariatus.
-
A Guide To SF Chronophysics
- analyses of the hidden assumptions in time travel stories
- Project Gutenberg
- public domain literature
-
Scroll Lock Online
- a brilliant work of conceptual art, elegant in its simplicity, and yet
startlingly revealing of the impact of the World Wide Web on modern culture
- Tea Quotes
- quotes about tea
- Thermophile
- Sarah Boomer's trip reports
- Trail Journals
- This might be my favorite site on the World Wide Web.
- Verity Stob
- her Register columns
- Vim
- the best text editor
dennis@cookhimes.us
The Tenniel illustrations are in the public domain. The rest of this page
is copyright © 1996-2010 Dennis Paul Himes
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