Things I've written

I write relatively often, considering that my work tends more toward the machine-readable end than toward the human-readable end. I wrote several actual pieces at one time or anyother, but lately it's been mostly email, and talking about my opinions on topics and trying to explain stuff.

Here are some of my more polished attempts:

On Making Modular Artificial Intelligence Systems: My thesis (Master's of Engineering, Computer Science, MIT Feb 2001).
Toward an Implementation of Jackendoff's Paths: a paper discussing how to represent Jackendoff's Paths in data structures.
Latin poetry: several poems I wrote in Latin.
The Vaults of Montressor: A rewriting of "The Cask of Amontillado", by E. A. Poe.
On the Proper Use of HTML: A bit of advise on how to make good web pages.
A post about interfaces on slashdot

These things I have started but are not yet ready to show:

Me Iabervon, vox: Another original lyric poem, based on one of Catullus's less happy works. The end will not be quite as nasty as in Catullus's, as my relationship with the subject of the poem improved dramatically while I was still writing it.
A lost chapter from The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner: for my English class (the same one which generated The Vaults of Montressor), I wrote an additional few pages to go in the middle of The Sound and the Fury. These await a return from a different computer and a different file format.

My other literary efforts generally are not intended to be viewed as literature, and thus would do poorly to form a list of items. They are scattered about these pages as they are finished, or sent off to some conversation or other. However, some writing of this type is intended never to become polished, or is intended to be shared before being polished. This, therefore, forms a collection of writings with no regard for an audience. I call it /null, and leave it as a directory listing of files by date or subject. The rules I set for myself are that I may not edit a paragraph I've left, shall not say anything I would wish some audience not to see, and will not pay attention to style. Read it if you wish, but criticism and judgement are to be suspended for the duration of the experience.

I intend eventually to have written programs which either use or produce a significant ammount of text. If and when these are ready, I will likely display them here.

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