There seems to be little point in having links to websites that I no longer visit, other than for archival purposes.
Given this reason, I am revising the links page to reflect the shift in recent times to a Space Architecture Focus.
Almost all of the old links will have to be moved to a separate, archive/previous interests page.
A magazine that tests most consumer products.
I used to visit this website a lot before it merged with Yahoo! movies. I still visit it every now and then, but I'm now busy enough that I can just wait for interesting movies to come out versus checking this site everyday for the latest information.
The University of Texas at Austin
I applied to that school way back in 2002. I went to the University of Houston instead.
I also applied to this school in 2002.
Alamo Community College District
I went to San Antonio College, which is part of the ACCD, from 1999 through 2002. I still keep in touch with some of my instructors from this school.
A bizarre website chock full of sources from the 1990s, about how an energy crisis was supposed to develop shortly after the year 2000. An interesting look at the hysteria that pervaded some folks before 2001.
I used to be really interested transportation and urbanism. In fact, I started architecture school because of it. However, transportation and urbanism are far more politicized than I anticipated, to the point where there are camps with extremists. The Public Purpose is in one the camps.
I would still like the work in an architectural firm that specializes in land-use/planning, since there is a kind of long-term planning in it that I like.
Another website that delt with issues that I used to be really passionate about. These people are diametrically opposite from the Public Purpose folks. Both have their own biases, which unfortunately, blinds them to solutions that could work, but would not fit in their respective paradigms. I hope that these camps can come together one day, and solve the ineffeciencies of the current auto-centric mode of transit so prevalent in the United States today.
Site of a former Generational Analysis Group that I used to be involved with. Its founder, members, including myself, have all moved on. It's currently the résumé of Michele Stork, a consultant specializing in K-12 school data.
The Generations website that got me started on the whole topic back in 1999. It has one of the most interesting, time-consuming discussions I've ever encountered. The discussions largely focus on how generations shape history, including future history. That broad topic includes politics, the environment, pop culture, jobs, economics, etc. It's the only place where I've seen people of many different stripes come together, with relatively minor flaming.
Another flash from 1999. The website has changed a lot now that the trilogy is finished. They used to have a cool, free comics section, but now it's all focused on two or three mainstays. The variety of the sci-fi cyberpunk noir is gone, over-commercialized, not-free.