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.

• remarks - bite-size remarks
• 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
• future image sensors - the "obvious" upcoming design advance
• genre - arbitrariness as primary
• language learning - my thoughts on learning foreign languages
• The Triplets of Belleville - analysis of the film (with spoilers)
• The Word of the Month

Serious. Um, mostly.

• anything which everybody has to do
• classifying mathematics
• cryptic references in literature
• digital music recordings
• existentialism
• exploring writing
• future freedom
• God's mind - a puzzle
• innate knowledge
• lucid dreams
• the nature of mathematics
• nuclear dread - since the Cold War
• salvaging philosophy
• Searle's Chinese Room
• strangeness
• to understand something - my method
• what technology does

You can't be serious!

• alien time
• back formations
• the chiropractic - a model for reforming medical practice
• court decisions - reforming the justice system
• disintermediation
• haplology
• information lifestyle
• jargon
• less different - my answer to an ambiguous puzzle
• liquid paper
• living near the courthouse
• Papa Cow
• status symbols
• The Universal Explainer
• Wafer - the crunchthrough album!
• your future success