Eric's Homepage

Please note. I haven't really updated my homepage since 1995, other than to add this message. Lots of things have changed in 5+ years. Please don't assume that much of anything here is the same, other than my love of Tori's music and my disinterest in getting random questions from strangers in email.

Hi. My full name, which no one other than Erin and my immediate family remembers, is Eric Jerome Paul Mumpower.

. Do you really want to know more about me?.

(our webmistress)

Sizes of the above referenced pictures, in Kilobytes

Tori Amos!

Advice from a mother to her college age, Boston-bound daughter:

"Never go out with an MIT student; they are horrible dates. More than any other college men, they are only after one thing:

Sleep."

Some (vaguely) useful things...

• A rose that has no background. :-)
• A few notes about creating similar pictures
• NEW! A list of cluster maps. These maps have links from the names/numbers of the workstations to a query about that particular workstation, including DNS information and finger information.
• MPEG -- technical information and instructions on creating MPEG and converting to/from MPEG format.
• Music, Music, Music, Music, Voices, Impressionist Art, Art Art, and Outer Space on the web.
• UNIX manpages, in a searchable index.
• An icon (x-bitmap form) server
• The Web's Edge
• Perl has a man page on the Web.
• A searchable Jargon file
• CUI's W3 catalog

Some more vaguely useful things that most people won't care about

• My index of HTML documentation stuff. This was one of the first things I added to my homepage; it's where I learned what I know of HTML. It's still growing.
• My list of phone numbers (Unless otherwise noted, these are area code 617.)
• A lot of menus for restaurants near MIT, and menus and reviews for restaurants in Boston.

Things to read

• Atribute to Douglas Adams
• The Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies
• Beauty for Ashes has a lush collection of photography. Their poetry is a bit trite and ... obvious, though.
• As We May Think, an article written by Vannevar Bush, whose name is well-known here at MIT. This article is quite interesting, and says quite a bit about science, technology, information, and information distribution systems that is of relevance today, despite its having been written in 1945.
• Why csh sucks
• An electronic novel by Stephen King
• A cybermystic novella, vh485, by Nic Kelman. I really enjoyed reading this.
• SIPB Clue Dumps
• A non-html-ized SIPB Clue Dump
• Have you ever played with the colormap editor in XV? Have you wondered about that strange button called gamma? Here's an explanation in plain english. =)
• A Guide to Cyberspace
• Some lame text files I have...

Other Home Pages

• Ethernet. The drawing at the top of the page was drawn by Bob Metcalfe, an alumnus of my fraternity.
• Gothic homepage, Goth music, and another Goth homepage (with lots of images).
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Speleology (caves and exploring them)
• BU's SCV group. It's pretty neat... it has a list of games on the web (like tic-tac-toe)
• MICE. (No, this isn't the smalll furry kind.) It's something of a Multimedia sourcething.
• Silicon Graphics
• SHiKA
• GAMIT (Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transgenders and Friends at MIT)
• BiancaTroll -- it's rather different.
• The X Consortium
• Library 2000
• ELVIS, a server in Russia.
• This guy's homepage. (He's just this guy, y'know? ;-)
• TMBG, Jethro Tull, Pearl Jam, Rush, and Sisters of Mercy (and, of course, Tori).
• Dune... a fascinating series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert. I wrote a term paper on Dune in high school. :-)
• Star Wars, the Star Wars Christmas Special, Blake's 7 in the US (and the UK), Red Dwarf in the US (and the UK), Highlander pictures (also here), Star Trek in Austria (and the UK), Blade Runner, Babylon 5, and Max Headroom
• Vangelis, the writer of the sound-track to Blade Runner, has identical home-pages in the US and the UK.
• Classic Home Video Games, pinball, and the Commodore 64

Some interesting things...

• The Clementine project is the first effort by the USA to send a spacecraft to the moon since the Apollo Program. There is an FTP site, Clementine.s1.gov, with GIFs, JPEGs, targa files, and animations from the mission. The (unmanned) Clementine spacecraft is still in lunar orbit.
• Want a handful of candy?
• It's /usr/src/man (and /usr/src/woman) (or something like that ;-) from the (human) Genome Data Base project..
• An online bookstore-cum-random-fantasy-paraphenalia-shop: Future Fantasy Bookstore. This is a very nice setup, and has some neat pictures of dragon statuettes and book-covers which are worth browsing even if you're not planning on ordering anything.
• An electronic bookstore that sells computer-related books.
• A "You are Here" Server
• The Fears Project -- it looks interesting. I haven't gone very deep into it though.

Some things that it's entirely possible only I will want to see.

• I like pottery. I make it when I can find the time. :-)
• Why does the shower curtain cling to your butt?
• Weather pictures
• A few cats at cygnus.com .
• Meow Meow Meow (is that Ziti?), Linus saying 'Linux', Bert, Sally (no, not Sherrian), and the SIPB Webmasters?
• Binaries for sun4c_411
• SunOS 4.1.1 manpages

I've got my own computer running Linux, with a web server, too.

I have a resumé, in .dvi (DeVice Independent file), PostScript, and HTML formats.

Please feel free to let me know what you think.