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My beloved son's Website, now a tribute to his tragically short life.
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This Website is Ghetto
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Yeah, I know.
It doesn't do much to show that I'm actually a great Web developer, does
it? Well, manushand.com just hasn't made it to the top
of my to-do list (yes, that's right; not since 1995 or so). I have so many
more important Websites than this one to keep updated (and no, they're
not the ones linked to below). Anyway, don't take my ghetto homepage
as in any way representative of my mad skillz.
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If you're into dead presidents, you came to the right place. By simply
clicking your mouse button, you can see pictures of me visiting the
final resting places of every one of them (save four -- I'm still working
on it). It's one of the most useless sites on the Net, and I'm not
just saying so myself.
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You're invited to rifle through the pages of The Diplomatic Pouch, the
official home page for the game of
Diplomacy and its
many variants, a site (including an online magazine,
and my labor of
love, the Web/E-mail based DPjudge)
that I started way back in 1995, and that I am proud to publish
(and too busy to do so -- thankfully, I have grown helpers over the years).
In addition to Weblishing The Pouch, my
involvement in Diplomacy runs deep, including placing fifth for the world
championship, being a member of the world championship team, winning
the Don Miller Memorial Award for meritorious service to the Diplomacy hobby,
being named an NADF All-Star (the veritable Hall of Fame in North
American Diplomacy),
and authoring a couple chapters for the user manual of Hasbro's CD-ROM release
of the game (which I do not recommend, although a couple chapters of the user
manual seem to be real good).
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| The High Altitude Trust & Treachery Society is the
Diplomacy game-play community that I founded with my grandson in
2026! With our members called the "Clydesdales" (for our love of Clyde, the
Diplomacy game-space), we meet monthly for face-to-face games, with an
annual tournament ("The Derby"). The HATTS is the place to be if you
play Diplomacy in the Rockies! Join us! Stab you soon!
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| The ARMADA is the Association of Rocky Mountain Area Diplomacy
Adversaries. I started the ARMADA in 1993 and it continues to this day,
although my own involvement in the group was sadly brought to an end.
The HATTS (see above) is now a friendly partner to and affiliate of the ARMADA,
magnifying the growth of Diplomacy in the region!
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During the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine, I got into the
Cracking the Cryptic guys,
on YouTube and was inspired to create "Chedoku" which combines my loves for chess,
retrograde analysis, and general puzzle-solving into something that made a bit of
a splash in the puzzling world, and that now sports a large and growing collection
of puzzles. Solve them online here!
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Firstborn and only son in a family of seven children, I now am king of
a castle in Parker, Colorado. Here, you can see some (very old) pictures of my wife Angela and
my two children (Kayla and Jameson).
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What? You don't know what Zorkball is? Well, don't feel special.
But if you want to join the very small minority of people who make
up the Zorkball cognizanti, you've come to the right place. (Actually,
you've come to the only place.)
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With my electronic MIDI keyboard and some software, I while away some of my
free time transcribing music that interests me and even trying to compose
some for myself. If you're interested by this, you can check out my fledgling
collection of MIDI files.
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| Cookie recipes?? What? You make cookies? Well, no, I don't (at least
not very often). But if I did or when I do, here are the cookies I would
make (with the recipes here only because when my wife asks for them I know where
I put them). If you follow these recipes to make any, mail me some. I will eat them for you.
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Neologisms
| Since it's absolutely true and documented, and since tooting
my own horn doesn't seem to be a problem for me, I'll go ahead and take credit
for having invented two words: "emoticon" (now in worldwide use, which is
the term describing those little text smileys like :-) and
frownies like :( that are used in e-mail), and "Weblish" (to
publish on the Web). Yep, those are mine, but you're welcome to use them
free of charge!
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