Lucian Smith's Home Page

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My history.

The life and times of Lucian Smith

My future plans.

A listing of the things I'm planning on doing in the distant and not-so-distant future. [NOTE: This is OLD INFO! If you really care, you can e-mail me, but I suspect you don't, which is why I didn't bother updating it.]

My Interactive Fiction page.

Aka 'text adventures'. In 1995 I found out that these games were still being written, and that handy systems existed for me to write one, too! The results can be found here, including my own entry into the 1997 IF contest, 'The Edifice', and Invisiclues for Andrew Plotkin's excellent game, 'So Far'.

The Journal of Useless and Nondescript Knowledge.

This is the brainchild of myself and fellow graduate student Dave Maillett. The idea is to have a forum where scientists can publish all of their experiments which completely, utterly, and totally fail.

ComedySportz Houston

"Houston's Only Competitive Improvisational Comedy Troupe"

A random article from Encyclopedia Brittanica

You probably have to be a subscriber to EB for this to work, but I really like the concept.

Writing HTML

This is what I use when I forget how to write HTML.

Note: This page and those pages I maintain hardly ever get updated. Proceed at your own risk.

Below is a random number, which either has something to do with how many people have accessed this page, or has to do with how many times I've stopped working to goof off in Netscape: