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07/11: Software downloads return to cublea.net
I've decided to place the software archives back online in a much more streamlined form. The five most relevant Plain Brown Power utilities (Jargonizer, I Ching 3.02, ASCII Chart & Character Picker [shown at right], Pixel Tools and Help Decompiler Shell) are now downloadable as ready-to-use software with or without installers. All other utilities formerly offered under the Plain Brown Power banner are still available, but only as source code. (I decided to limit the availability of compiled apps since a few are quite buggy on newer Windows operating systems, and most have several superior competitors. The risk of nuisance lawsuits doesn't merit the handful of site visitors I'd likely get from offering compiled programs.) These five programs are tools which are still requested in forums from time to time, are relatively unique, or at least equal to readily-available competitors. Download 'em here, and if you still want them all, I'm offering a "donationware" CD containing every software package I've produced since 1995.

07/11: The Jargonizer is back.
The Jargonizer is a freeware (actually donationware) desktop toy designed to generate a wide range of bizarre phrases and doublespeak, and which includes what I believe is a truly hilarious and still-unmatched band-name generator (although it takes a bit of fiddling to get consistently funny results). It got a brief mention recently on The Nervous Breakdown and I'm tired of e-mailing individual ZIP files. Learn more about the Jargonizer and download the software. I pulled all of my free software from public access in 2005; I'm slowly returning a few unique or particularly well-crafted pieces to downloadable status. This is unsupported freeware; source code is also provided.

07/11: Strange Rock Tales is finally published!
My long-abandoned book of rock-and-roll-themed short stories has finally found a publisher! Well, sort of a publisher...sort of published...okay, it's been acknowledged as having existed. It was just accepted for posting at Steve Wilson's My Unfinished Novels website, the Internet graveyard for abandoned book projects. The link below takes you to my description of the book and why it never saw the light of day, and includes a link to a PDF document containing the first ten pages of the book's showcase tale, a gut- and nut-crushing diatribe that reveals rock and roll's dirtiest secret. See the first ten pages of the book and the reason for its non-existence, and post your comments at My Unfinished Novels.

07/11: A Neurological Model of Psychological Trauma posted
I've been looking for something like this on the web and haven't found it: a simple, easy-to-understand explanation of what happens at a physical level during psychological trauma and corrective trauma treatment. This is greatly oversimplified, granted, but I believe it nicely covers the basics. Here's the inside view on what's happening inside of you.

07/11: The Jargonizer is back.
The Jargonizer is a freeware (actually donationware) desktop toy designed to generate a wide range of bizarre phrases and doublespeak, and which includes what I believe is a truly hilarious and still-unmatched band-name generator (although it takes a bit of fiddling to get consistently funny results). It got a brief mention recently on The Nervous Breakdown and I'm tired of e-mailing individual ZIP files. Learn more about the Jargonizer and download the software. I pulled all of my free software from public access in 2005; I'm slowly returning a few unique or particularly well-crafted pieces to downloadable status. This is unsupported freeware; source code is also provided.

06/10: Long-awaited (by me) stand-up debut falls flat
After an exceptionally well-received recitation performance several months ago, I accepted an offer from a local organization to perform a stand-up routine and I finally debuted my very first 40-minute stand-up set on June 10.

I lasted exactly 20 minutes before receiving a hasty, unscheduled thank-you from the host.

Another local comic was in attendance that night, and while she reassured me that the set was underappreciated, the fact is that the audience is always the final arbiter. I confess that I hadn't counted on them taking such big arbites.

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