Warning: Construction.

This page is (obviously) under construction. There isn't much to see here, and there won't be for quite a while. In short, go away.

For those of you following the non-progress of this page with increasing irritation, (all, what, one of you?) it shouldn't come as a surprise to hear that I've been feeling a general sort of lassitude about building this thing. "Why, Athlien, has this apathy afflicted you? What mysterious malady have you suffered from? What, in short, is your problem?" queries my one interested viewer. My answer to this zealously interested person is to go do something creative with your anatomy and a pickle, and leave me alone. Cough, cough. Sorry. Had to get that out of my system. The truth of the matter is, that I've found it rather difficult to build a page about things I'm interested in or find kind of neat when for any given thing that I think is mildly interesting, there are at least two people out on the web whose devotion to said kind of neat thing is so consuming that they've spent all their spare time in making comprehensive web pages about it and will cut into tiny bits any person who criticizes said mildly interesting thing. I was hoping to keep this page from just being a bunch of links. Oh well. You'll deal.

Since my cereal has a home page, I suppose it's time for me to get with the program and start boring countless people with the minutia of my life, too.

However, if you're expecting a whole lot of personal information (how many wombats I don't have, and whether or not elephants do anything for me, for instance), you'll be sorely disappointed. For those of you out there who breathed a sigh of relief, read on.

Now then, on with the... er... page.
What I devote my time to (mostly) is the study and pursuit of Classics. Stuff you'd visit in the Way Back Machine . I'm working to put together an interesting and fun classics page.

So that's devotion. Now for diversion!
The things I enjoy doing (and therefore have lots of links for) can be grouped into two categories- those that are easy to categorize and those that aren't. Members of the first group include reading, music, and writing. The second bit consists of a hodge-podge of the weird and the unusual, an eclectic mix of the eccentric and odd, a fruit salad of the strange, a bowling alley of the...

Have you saved the world lately? If the answer to that question is "no" it's probably because had already taken care of the problem. If you answered "yes" to that question, however, drop me an email, as I'd like to hear about it.

Are you more interested in taking over the world than saving it? If so, stay away from Danger Mouse, and visit some more ambitious rodents: Pinky and The Brain. Study their exploits. Very carefully don't do whatever they do. Things will work out fine. Narf.

What's red, white, blue and smokes? A flag afire. Visit the ACLU to find out why I'm against a flag burning amendment, and to see what other things are going on in the world of civil liberties.

If the words "she turned me into a newt" or "he's pining for the fjords" mean anything to you, you'll understand my fascination with British comedy. Shows like Monty Python, Mr. Bean and Red Dwarf are so hilarious that they put American sit-coms to shame. Well, American sit-coms do that quite nicely by themselves, actually, but the contrast just makes it all the more obvious. And of course, no list of funny Brits would be complete without Douglas Adams, one of my favorite authors. 42.