Welcome to (and from) Ubiquity!

I am a senior programmer in the Software Services Group at IBM. The following links will take you to some places that I hope are esoteric enough to have made the journey (and concomitant expenditure of bandwidth) worthwhile.

Zen Masters

Here are some charming (and perhaps enlightening) koans about a bunch of great guys who don't want you to put your hands together for them:

• Hakuin
• Subhuti
• Suiwo
• Tanzan
• Tetsugen

The serious investigator will find many helpful links at the DharmaNet Gateway to Buddhist Resources. On the other hand, if you are just a nerd looking for a good laugh, try the AI koans.

IBM

I like working for IBM. I like being part of a company that really cares about customer satisfaction. A company with traditions, values, and a long history. A company where a man in his forties can still feel young; a company that isn't ruled by some snot-nosed, pimply-faced... oops, getting carried away. Anyway, here are some useful links:

• The IBM fight song (words and music)
• IBM stock quote
• An extensive list of IBM web pages

And if you still think the most innovative software comes from Redmond, here's a link to the company that produces it.

Math

If you read the FAQ, you'll know that my background is, by accident, in mathematics. Even though my current work rarely calls for more math than that necessary to divide a lunch bill by four, I enjoy math and math problems. If you do too, check out my current puzzle, or some of these links:

• Topics in Math History
• The Somewhat-Less-Eurocentric Math Topics Page
• MathMagic!
• Pi Search (find a numeric string, like your birthday, in the first million or so digits of pi)
• Mega-Mathematics, a mostly educational site including the story of The Hotel Infinity.

I have also put some mathematical poems on my poetry page. Share and enjoy.

Posthumous Pages

I'm sure both of these men would have had great pages had they lived today:

• Wilson Mizner Home Page
• Sir Boyle Roche Home Page

Calendar Recycling

Click here to learn how to reuse old calendars.

Literature

I didn't write these. :-) I recommend the first for those of you who want a quick laugh, and the next two for those of you with a little more time on your hands.

• Mr. Dooley
• Ulysses
• Anna Karenina

If you want more on-line books, try Bibliomania.

Utilities

• Who is logged in at UTCS
• Finger a UTCS user
• List public Sun or IBM workstations

Reference

• The Texas State Electronic Library
• Unix man pages
• Hypertext Webster interface
• Britannica's Born this Day
• Zip+4 Lookup
• The Internet Movie Database
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Humor

In keeping with my simple web philosophy ("keep the self-indulgent BS off the home page") I have placed some humorous poems of mine on another page. I also maintain a modest archive of humorous material.

Here are some other links good for a few laughs:

• The Comic Strip: a large collections of comic strips and cartoons
• The Annals of Improbable Research
• Economist Jokes
• Statistics Quotes
• The Astounding Home Page of George Goble, Grill Lighter Extraordinaire!

Other Links

• Images by Madelon, an Austin artist
• Information about Austin Jewish Resources
• Rules and other information about TwixT, an abstract strategy game.
• The Rogue-like Games home page
• Visit Tradenet!, the only non-US page I know with the good taste to point to my page. Can you find the link? It's buried pretty deep, but it's there.

More Ubiquity

I used to think that the name "Ubiquity" might be unique, but the web has disabused me of that notion. Here are some other links that feature ubiquity. They have nothing to do with each other, and I have nothing to do with them. You can imagine my disappointment.

• Ubiquity recordings.
• Ubiquity: "Navigating the World of Communications"
• The Den of Ubiquity
• Ubiquity, "Home of the Net" (???)
• Complete Devil's Dictionary definition of ubiquity

Richard Hoffman / ubiquity@yahoo.com