Inactive Projects

This is the section of my site where I keep stuff that's still popular or at least interesting, but which is (to put it mildly) on the back burner currently.  Not all of it is bad, although I should stress that the high school era material is strictly for devoted fans or blackmailers.  In any case, it's safe to say none of it will be updated any time soon, no matter what you may read elsewhere.

Undergrad Era

The Russian Record: 2001-2004.  Color photographs of imperial Russia, circa 1905-1915.  I still think this is really cool, and although the efforts represented here have since been generally surpassed on other sites, I remain proud to have worked on this. 

The Sorry Sods: 2000-2003.  Half-baked but brilliant band consisting of myself and onetime hallmate, roommate, and housemate Matt Voss.  The band remains on an indefinite but not officially permanent hiatus.

Songs That Time Forgot: 2003-2005.  Now the page that time forgot.  There's some half-decent stuff in here, actually, but the design is ugly and the content never mushroomed into the encyclopedia I was going for.  As with a lot of my pages, this seems terribly quaint in the blog age.

Survivor Ramblings: 2003.  Geeky Survivor fan stuff, and I mean geeky.  Various Survivors graded on strategy, and a reference database on different types of challenges constructed for the Survivors.  The latter might actually be useful if it were kept up to date, the former if it were even actually finished in the first place.  Oh well...

Desert Island Collection: 2001-2002.  Totally essential albums!!!  Or just stuff I thought I could write something interesting about at the time.  I sort of stand by most of it still, although the Gossip one really dates itself in terms of my personal feminist journey et cetera.

Bloor Collection - 2000-2003.  Collages, defaced magazines, and other creations of workplace boredom.  Hopelessly incomplete, especially considering the fact that I worked in a library copy shop for three years; we made tons of stuff down there that should be on this page if anything should.

High School Era

Miscellaneous Comics - 1997-2000.  Comics work not included in Ummagurau! Magazine or any of its hypothetical sequels.  Most of the incredibly old (think sixth grade) stuff has been skimmed out, so the main attraction here are my two high school serials, The Umgurai Saga and Russell Q Allen, Private Eye, neither of which is presented in its entirety.

Nintendo Pages: 2000.  "Witty" analysis of Nintendo games in general, the Megaman cast in particular, and, oh yeah, The Creator Of Ultra Games.  Kind of fun, though very much of its time - this was the pre-blog era when there were something like fifteen total sites to which you could turn for humorous Nintendo commentary.

Old Ummagurau Artwork: 1998-1999.  Linking buttons that used to be used on the main page.  Exciting!  Also links to archived old versions of the Umma index page if you're curious about that sort of thing (or, more likely, if you're me and occasionally want to trawl back through stuff like that).

Into The Deep: 1998.  Two intrepid adventurers exploring forgotten corners of a high school; a true story.

Anime Pages: 1998 - 2000.  The bottoms of all the most embarassing barrels are found here.

The Uncanny Adventures of Dr. Strangelove: 1998.  A rather random satire of overwritten word problems.

No Bicycle Parking Allowed:  1998.  The journal of my family's first trip to Oregon, in the summer of 1998.

Burning Beliefs: 2000.  An attempt to indirectly go into what makes me tick on certain issues, and maybe in general.  I've gotten a lot of positive feedback on this, but it feels a bit dated somehow to me.

Web Design Handbook: 1999.  Basic principles for approaching webbing, not an HTML manual.  While ironically itself a horrible website, it's arguably an interesting glimpse into a bygone era, when the biggest plagues on the web were hit-counters and web-rings.

100 Nightmares From Afar: 2000.  The scariest images in the world.  I forgot to keep gathering them, although I think about revisiting it every so often.

Atticus's Artifacts of Mysterious and Limitless Power: 1998.  Basically a bunch of inside jokes now well past their sell-by date.

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