On one fine day

• April 14, 2005
• James Skemp

On one fine day you'll be old and grey and you'll sit and wonder 'where art thy plunder?' I'll tell you once, so please don't be a dunce, when that day appears I'm sure you'll be sitting on your rear!

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Natalie Portman

• April 5, 2005
• James Skemp

Is it your brown hair
that makes me need more air?

Is your tense face
the reason I'm lost in space?

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The Semi-True Tale of Shelly and Allen

• March 25, 2005
• James Skemp

May 14th Allen,  I thank you for your kind words tonight at the Olympus Centre of the Arts. It’s not very often I get a standing ovation, and I believe it is solely due to you.  Ever since we first met, last night, I’ve felt a strong connection to you, and this indeed fills me with great happiness.  Again, I thank you for you continued help and guidance, Shelly   May 16th Shelly,  It was indeed my pleasure to be there on the 14th, but I fear that I cannot take credit for the, well deserved, standing ovation.

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What can the birth places of the United States Presidents tell us?

• March 15, 2005
• James Skemp

There is an old saying that says something to the effect of “if you try hard enough, you can become anything, even president” (the President of the United States is usually implied, but the general idea is the ruler of a country/government). I was thinking one day that there must be certain states in which certain individuals have little chance of actually becoming President of the United States, so I undertook to find out what states Presidents have come from, and look at what states Presidents have not come from.

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As I walked down the valley I saw beside me a small dog

• March 12, 2005
• James Skemp

As I walked down the valley I saw beside me a small dog I do not know where the dog came from pans I do not care now however the one thing that always is the survey is the fact that’s dog skin and you’re out of nowhere at any time one thing I remember from my childhood visibly an atomic and his team was young But I don’t know what’s the team from do not know where he came from again on all my state and that batters and jury of of life and science and field Sophia Whenever I think about dogs and cats and while some stuff of science and pricing five wonder whether or not signed from force the King arts degree?

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Fractal Explorer: Creating Your Own Fractals

• March 6, 2005
• James Skemp

Learning a program can be quite fun and rewarding, but can also be somewhat disarming. While there were a number of guides on the Internet that discussed Fractal Explorer, I felt that none of them did any great service to this great program. So, I set out to create my own guide, in a format that did not force a user to view only a small amount of information at a time.

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On The Lady or the Tiger, and Other 'Questions with no answers' in the Media

• February 19, 2005
• James Skemp

In Frank Stockton’s 1882 piece The Lady or the Tiger, Stockton asks us to determine the ending of the story. While one thinks they have enough information to make an informed decision and come to the correct answer, they in fact do not. His later piece, The Discourager of Hesitancy, also continues this tradition. Of course, Stockton is not the only writer to use this method to capture an audience. However, Stockton is one of the few to take this method to such a level. For this article I’ll be discussing Stockton’s pieces, as well as other cases of this in the media, including Tarantino’s movie Pulp Fiction.

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Pulp Fiction: A Timeline of the Events of the Movie

• February 18, 2005
• James Skemp

The movie is Pulp Fiction. The story is intense. Here's my cheat sheet for the movie, as I saw it while watching the movie. This is taken from the DVD, and the Collector's Edition at that. If anything is wrong with this, let me know (email is at the bottom of the page) or, if its right, let me know about that as well :)

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Getting the Most of Your InboxDollar$.com Account

• February 9, 2005
• James Skemp

A while ago, I wrote an article regarding InboxDollars.com (also known as, InboxDollar$.com). That article, On InboxDollar$.com, and similar programs, discussed some of the good things about this site and it’s program. However, I feel as though some additional information could be given. Specifically, I feel as though people are afraid to enter into these kinds of sites for a couple of reasons, which I detail, and hopefully dispel, below.

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English language books by or on Arthur Schopenhauer

• February 2, 2005
• James Skemp

If you’re going to read more on Arthur Schopenhauer, I suggest you start with his main works, followed by other primary resources (id est, books written by him), followed by secondary resources.

For ease, I’ve compiled a list of books currently available to the English language reader. Obviously, if you can read German, it makes little sense to purchase any of the translations, since the language the work was written in is better suited for Schopenhauer’s original thoughts.

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