Old news from Frank's home page. Stuff that used to be news but no longer is. This is the complete list of things that have appeared in the "news" part of my home page. Note that I never include updates to the Quotes page here nor do I include updates to the Sketchbook of the Day.
December 26, 2011
Photos from the Great Ireland Voyage are now online!
November 18, 2011
It's been a long time since I added a Tale. Thus, a short story
I call Memory Mask.
September 15, 2011
Dice Minion 3.0 is out!
September 6, 2011
Photos from the Great Alaska Trip are now online!
November 25, 2010
The second release of Dice Minion, now tracking multiple characters, including monsters.
October 31, 2010
A new cartoon...my Warner Brother's take on
Porgy and Bess.
October 25, 2010
Here's an old picture of me and Moof
from 1983.
September 21, 2010
First version of my Dice Minion program to track D&D character stats is now available.
September 1, 2010
Pictures from my trip to the Pacific Northwest from August .
June 23, 2010
Updated the look of the Friends page.
March 23, 2010
A new cartoon! Some D&D characters try a variation on the old
Rope Trick.
February 19, 2010
A new cartoon! Kind of scary for a moment, but in reality Everything's Ducky.
October 21, 2009
4 web pages of photos (in glorious color) from my travels in
Northern California from back in May 2009.
September 28, 2009
Photos from hiking in Worlds End State Park, PA.
September 23, 2009
A new cartoon! I
don't fall off a horse.
September 21, 2009
I updated the look of the Photo section of the site. More tabby, less bullet-y.
September 21, 2009
A few photos of The Lagoon Pond on Martha's Vineyard.
September 14, 2009
Photos from my March 2009 trip to Sarasota and Key West,
Florida.
July 31, 2009
A new cartoon! Scotty teaches reverse engineering.
June 28, 2009
A new cartoon! I fall off a horse.
June 23, 2009
Frank's web site is officially moved to frank.notfrank.com.
April 28, 2009
A cartoon! A friend gives me a tour
In The Lab.
April 5, 2009
A Flying Tale about a flight that never happened.
January 10, 2009
Pictures from my Winter 2008 holiday travels.
November 25, 2008
A new cartoon! The morning after some poorly executed
Pineapple Play.
November 2, 2008
A description of a multi-engine flight
I took, complete with pictures and videos.
October 27, 2008
A new cartoon. Horseplay
between Frank and a horse named Nitro.
Setpember 30, 2008
A new cartoon! This time it's a parrot with quite the vocabulary,
At The Pet Store.
September 12, 2008
Pictures from this summer's DC trip
(camping, parks, and DC) test driving a Nikon D40 digital camera.
August 20, 2008
The great Colorado trip
(for Stacey's wedding and some sightseeing).
July 6, 2008
A quick little Perl/TK program to graphically show the state of
the battery.
July 1, 2008
A new cartoon: I'm bad with names. So let's play
The Name Game.
June 2, 2008
I wrote a description of the process I went through to enable imap
and smtp-auth on a mail server.
May 31, 2008
I finally put up the tale of my
multi-engine checkride to get a few more words added to my pilot's license.
March 9, 2008
The new cartoons keep coming. This time we ponder
Will There Be Blood?
February 22, 2008
Yet another new cartoon! See what transpires
One Day At The Border!
February 6, 2008
A new cartoon! Do you dare face
The Impenetrable Wall of Chocolate!
November 3, 2007
A cartoon from 2005: Video Night on the Moon!
October 27, 2007
A new cartoon: Fear
The Terror of the Bra Bomb!
October 26, 2007
Fall photos from Ithaca
(Ithaca Falls, Treman Park, and Stewart Park).
October 22, 2007
A tale of a routine IFR flight
back from Boston.
October 6, 2007
Photos from my camping trip to Ricketts
Glen State Park in Pennsylvania.
August 24, 2007
Photos from my trip to Boston, MA.
August 19, 2007
A tale of flying to Osh Kosh, Wisconsin.
July 30, 2007
Photos from my trip to Madison, WI.
May 18, 2007
A new drawing. Find out who Karl, the D.A., is
and what D.A. stands for.
March 25, 2007
My Nova Scotia
photos from my 2006 Summer Vacation are finally online.
December 22, 2006
Photos from the Great Arizona Trip.
December 1, 2006
A new cartoon: Nocturnal World!
October 15, 2006
Two pages of photos of Fall in Ithaca.
June 26, 2006
New cartoon! I take a Karma Hit.
May 30, 2006
Photos from my trip to Arizona.
May 18, 2006
My sister visited me in Ithaca!
March 10, 2006
Photos from my trip to The Bay Area
(San Francisco and San Jose).
February 16, 2006
Photos from my trip to San Diego
plus a tale of flying in San Diego too.
February 2, 2006
A new cartoon starring "Bobby Bomb."
January 15, 2006
Streetcar is back (in New Orleans) post-hurricane Katrina and I added
two items from "telephone pictionary" to the generally unused
play section.
August 19, 2005
Photos of a food fest in New Orleans
from June 2005.
July 8, 2005
A tale of flying and avoiding summer storms.
July 6, 2005
Photos from my trip to England
(London and Oxford) from May 2005.
March 18, 2005
It's all about me. Using my nifty quote
generator script, the page now selects a random picture of me.
January 21, 2005
Pierce and I have declared the our tale of
Mystery complete!
December 25, 2004
I finally scanned in some pictures from my
seaplane flying in Florida in February.
December 22, 2004
A new tale of Winter Flying.
November 17, 2004
Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day
is officially linked in to the site.
November 6, 2004
Fall color photos of Watkins Glen
and Ithaca.
October 25, 2004
Updated the technical publications and
added the (ongoing) Mystery tale.
October 15, 2004
A picture of me, Golden, Pete W., and his son Bill from the
DFRWS conference.
September 28, 2004
Pictures of Tom, Sara,
and Zachary from my Boston visit.
September 22, 2004
Photos from my trip to Washington State.
August 23, 2004
A new cartoon of a clown shoe shopping.
August 20, 2004
A perl script
to get aviation weather from airnav.com. Plus quotes.
August 17, 2004
New drawings (Bagel Danger
and Osbourne),
a parody (The Librarian),
and the forensic tool tar2d2.
July 26, 2004
Streetcar is back on the air!
February 11, 2004
A brief brush with the dreaded
nipple confusion.
January 19, 2004
Have there been no updates in this long?!? No! I've continually
added Quotes and some new pictures of
Friends of Frank. They just didn't merit
a note here. Check out the "who's who" image that explains the
Friends of Dison on that page (more fun with Photoshop). And, I've
started writing up tales of multi-engine
flight training. And I also have ideas for new ways to Play.
Coming soon...
September 18, 2003
My junk mail filters and stats code.
September 12, 2003
Photos of the
Great Adirondack Hiking Trip.
September 8, 2003
A new cartoon, A Slow Thursday;
a joint venture between Frank and Timothy.
June 22, 2003
Added new quotes plus a new journal article
(it's a real, computer science, research thing, not terribly funny though).
May 12, 2003
An (old) photo from Hawaii.
Plus various quotes.
January 24, 2003
New quotes. New cartoon!!! 3 strips!!!
In color!!! The Revenge of the Zorks!!!
December 13, 2002
Short Star Trek Parody
and
photos of a Foggy, Snowy Day in Ithaca.
November 21, 2002
Quotes, plus photos of Neel's visit.
October 13, 2002
More quotes, plus the adventures of
Credit Card Woman vs. the Troglodytes.
September 18, 2002
Added a page with a bunch of photos from my trip to
Peru.
August 15, 2002
Added a short mail note.
And a quote for the month.
July 9, 2002
Scanned in
The Last Voyage of the Frankmobile (Mark I).
Added the photo-tale of Tania vs.
the Gas Door.
July 7, 2002
A new flying tale of a trip to
Chicago, complete with photos.
July 3, 2002
Added two photos from Karen's wedding in
Ann Arbor with the help of photoshop.
June 8, 2002
Added a new quote.
May 17, 2002
Reorganized header a big, put "drawings" and "photos" in header.
May 10, 2002
Added The Solipsism Hour
to the Drawings page.
May 6, 2002
Added England pictures to Photo section.
May 1, 2002
Updated the photo section, added some AZ
photos.
April 30, 2002
Updated Writing page to add song parodies.
April 29, 2002
The web site goes public.
April 18, 2002
Frank starts to elicit feedback on the new pages.
April 7, 2002
Frank spends a couple weeks sucking down old files, rescanning in photos
and drawings that weren't archived and deciding how the site should
flow. Develops the initial site more.
March 30, 2002
Frank struggles with various ways of retrieving data from his DRI
web pages, including dump tapes, tar, files, and more. Activities
including infiltrating a machine room to obtain tapes, locating
a SCSI card to hook 8mm tape drives to a Linux box, playing SCSI
cable-fu, reconfiguring the computer to deal with hardware, tapes
and dump/restore, failing, and on and on.
Frank starts to recreate the "new" or current web site.
Then Steve Romig mentions the site archive.org. Frank checks and
finds the bulk of the contents of his old web pages are available.
Nov 2000
After completing the story "A Wild Hare" with Pierce, Frank wants to
make an adventure game of it. He begins working on The Game using
Streetcar as a web server.
April 2000
Golden gives Frank an account on Streetcar to do as he pleases.
Summer 2000
After 10+ years of service, dri.cornell.edu crashed
hard, taking my web pages with it. The dark ages of a
Web-less Frank begin.
Fall 1995
Created "new and improved" web pages at Cornell/DRI.
Summer 1995
Graduated from OSU.
circa 1992
My first web pages created at OSU.
May 12, 125,384 B.C.
Zog bang rocks together. Make fire. Everything go
downhill from there.
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