Aaron Greenhouse

I am a recent doctoral graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department. I have finally replaced my lame picture with a half-way decent one. It is from June of 2004 and was taken when my wife and I were on vacation in Great Britain. This particular picture is from Bath.

Academics

In May of 1996, I was graduated from Brandeis University and awarded a BA in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics.

Wasting Time

My first contribution of original material on the World Wide Web was The HyperText Version of The Poems of the Day. The structure of this particular section of my pages is very outdated. One of these days I’ll fix it to be HTML 4.01 compliant and to use cascading style sheets. In any case, it evolved out of a in-joke among my friends during our time at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland It is basically a bunch of really silly and badly written poems that we blamed on a fellow named Rev. Xmos. (Fortunately, he didn’t mind.)

The rest of my original contributions come from the fact that I take my television viewing very seriously—maybe too seriously. But, hey, someone has to take an interest in these things. Or maybe they don’t; I don’t worry about it too much, it is just something that I do, and other people seem to think it is useful. In any case, I have compiled loads of information about the “little” three US television broadcast networks: Fox, UPN, and The WB. This includes episode guides for the UPN programs Platypus Man and Pig Sty, the WB program Unhappily Ever After, and the Fox program Pauly.

The Links

Okay, let’s face it, you probably only care about whether I have links to cool stuff. I’m not offended by this: I don’t usually look at what personal web pages say either. If I can’t find anything interesting to click on, I usually find a different page to look at. So here are some interesting things that you might want to click on.

Political Documents

Documents that prescribe the governance of the jurisdiction in which I live:

Home Rule Charter, City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Home Rule Charter of the County of Allegheny (From the County’s site)
Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and an alternative rendering (Both from the Commonwealth’s site)
Constitution of the United States of America (From the Government Printing Office)

Here are some other interesting political documents:

Constitution of the Confederate States of America: Interested historical document. It's very similar to that of the USA, but has a few interesting deviations and innovations. (From US Constitution.net)
The Articles of Confederation: The original constitution of the USA. It does not get a lot of attention these days. I was 14 before I had ever heard of them, and did not actually find a copy of them until I was an undergraduate. (From Majority Whip Tom DeLay)
The Constitution Resource Center: More information and links about the Constitution of the United States of America.
The Electoral College (PDF): Interesting overview of the operation of the Electoral College.
A New Bill of No Rights: Basically, you do not have the right to make me pay for your stuff.

Music

I like to listen to music when I'm at home relaxing. My collection includes mostly speed metal, death metal, punk rock, and hardcore. Unfortunately, there aren't that many speed metal bands around anymore, although Century Media seems to have a lot of good metal bands, and a butt-load of free MP3s.

Drink the Blood: The official home page of late-’80s death metal band Blood Feast.
GWAR/Slavepit Enterprises: The offical web site of those Scumdogs of the Universe.
ALLCentral: The official web site of ALL and The Descendents.
Twisted Sister: The official web site for those SMFs from New York. These guys were my favorite band for a long time. I don’t listen to them very much anymore, but I still have a soft spot for them.

More TV-Related Stuff

The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5: The name pretty much says it all. Just about everything you ever wanted to know about the PTEN/TNT series Babylon 5, its TV movies, and spin-offs.
The Farnsworth Chronicles: Read about the inventor of television. I think it is appropriate to have this here to complement my other TV-related pages.

Comics and Other Wackiness

Dilbert: Comic about engineer and cubical dweller, Dilbert. Seems like everyone has a link to this these days.
Dr. Fun: The home page of Dr. Fun, an Internet cartoon much like The Far Side. Started way, way back in 1993.
The Church of the SubGenius: Smoke some frop with Bob, and maybe he’ll let you into his excrameditation chamber.
Fun with Grapes: I’ve always intended to try this myself, but I’ve never gotten around to it. Also check out Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches.
The T.W.I.N.K.I.E. Project: If you liked the above, you’ll love what these bored graduate students did.

Firearms

I enjoy shooting guns—and I make no apologies about it.

Geeks With Guns: Homepage for techophiles with guns.
Point/Counterpoint: Treating Guns Like Consumer Products: Why treating guns like all other consumer products does not mean what the gun-controllers think it does. (David B. Kopel. University of Pennsylvania Law Review. April 2000. 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1213.)
How to Believe in Gun Control: The title says it all.
Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership: JPFO has a simple message: gun control leads to government sponsored murder.
Gun-Lovin’ Actresses: Quotes from actresses who enjoy a trip to the shooting range.

Miscellaneous

National Institute of Standards and Technology FAQ: When does daylight savings time start/end?: I can never remember when daylight savings time begins or ends, so every March and October I’m constantly checking this site. Yes, I know it is regulated by the Department of Transportation, and the official time is kept by a clock controlled by the Navy, but the FAQ entry is at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. I interned there for five summers starting after my Junior year of high school. It is ten minutes from where I grew up. I’ve seen the thingy that measures the output of the doodad that generates the standard volt.
U.S. English: Organization that promotes the adoption of English as the official language of the U.S.A.