SWAPA Extracts

SWAPA is a monthly APA for SWIL people and other victims of circumstance. I've been in it since, oh, way back when. I'm not sure my memory goes back that far.

I'm gradually collecting tidbits from my old SWAPA zines into this page. Some of them have been slightly rewritten to fit in.

• quotes - other people's mistakes, as opposed to mine

the longer bits

• the far future - the human design flaws that we will address
• the Gulf war
• machine writing - who wrote this verse, machine or human?
• a call to arms - halt nonlocal quantum effects!
• Emily Dickinson - the Breakfast of Lampoons
• The Triplets of Belleville - analysis of the film (with spoilers)
• The Word of the Month

Serious. Um, mostly.

• anything which everybody has to do
• digital music recordings
• existentialism
• future freedom
• innate knowledge
• lucid dreams
• the nature of mathematics
• salvaging philosophy
• Searle's Chinese Room
• strangeness
• what technology does

You can't be serious!

• back formations
• disintermediation
• haplology
• jargon
• liquid paper
• living near the courthouse
• Papa Cow
• status symbols
• The Universal Explainer
• Wafer - the crunchthrough album!
• your future success