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Cakewalk

If I'd known you were coming, I'd have baked a cake.

Ben Katz
Serenity
Temple of Doom Rope Bridge
Ralph Wiggum
Cat Eating a Flower


Comics & Animation

Sandals

Three semiaquatic animals investigate their neighborhood/universe.

Updated: 2008-02-02T15:04:00-05:00

Wolf in Wolf's Clothing, Segment 1

A short animated movie. (Flash Player or Quicktime 4+ required)

Gerard Gazelle

My comic strip from the Cornell Daily Sun.

moment in time (2002)
Gerard: Uh oh, you're re-reading your Dale
											Carnegie biography. | Hoover: Gerard - what if we've missed our
											moment in history?Gerard: Come again? | Hoover: You know, that seminal instant when a
											glorious future of possibilities come into
											resplendent, etherial focus.Gerard: You mean like the time we we got those
											coupons to go to the water park? | Hoover: No, like the time we failed to invent
											online auctions. Or Ritalin.Gerard and Hoover walk into the sunset. | Gerard: If you have missed
											your moment in history, why don't you
											take mine?



Software

Desktop Applications

Balloonist

Draws vector-based panels and word balloons of varying rectangularness, plus curved stems and merged ovals. For comics!

Screen Rodeo

An ancient Mac OS Classic game, similar to Surround! for the Atari 2600 console. Works on Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier.

Renoberator

A cross-platform Comics Editor and Storyboarding Tool.

Stylesheets

Extensible Stylesheet Language Templates are computer programs for doing assorted cool things with data stored in XML.

split_tcx.xsl

Splits out individual tracks from a TCX file exported from Garmin Training Center and a GPS unit. Intended for use in conjunction with tcx2kml.xsl. An alternate solution involving csplit that potentially makes more efficient use of memory can be found here, along with a discussion of the problem.

Command-line Programs

Bookstract

Makes tiny pictures of the structures of text documents.

Coincide

A rudimentary framework for modeling and converting amongst various calendar systems. Will post eventually.

TeeRex

A program to solve that awful dinnertime triangle game with the pegs.

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Holiday Cards



Various

Ozcongruities

My technocratic and petty list of incongruities in the Wizard of Oz

Updated: 2006-04-19

Jasow

To this day, the Jasow dropping mechanism remains my single contribution to the world of robotics.

Mac OS X z-code interactive fiction interpreters compared



Family & Friends

Michael Horlick

My brother's website

The Chico Project

Michael founded a community organization to keep companion animals safer at home. Woof!

Matt Kirkpatrick

Matt Kirkpatrick's blog

Will Horton

Will Horton's single-entry Rhyming & Stealing blog

Staci Strobl

Bahrain Mass Email/Blog: women in law enforcement in the Middle East

Josh Fruhlinger

The Comics Curmudgeon: a wonderful newspaper comics deconstruction blog

Mary K. Horlick

My Mother sits on Venice, Florida's Architectural Review Board, from which she recently stepped down as chairperson.

Updated: 2008-02-04T00.42-05.00

Mike Horlick

My Dad's law office, which my mother Mary K. Horlick designed.

Shani Warner

Shani's flickr photostream



Obligatory Random Links



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