Ty Corgi
...or:
Yet Another Fannish Homepage

This page was assembled using Novell's Internet Publisher, which plugs into WordPerfect 6.1; some coding was debugged using the shareware programs HTML Assistant and the Color Manipulation Device (see "Resources," below), which I really will pay for; all homemade .gif files were rendered transparent using the GIF Construction Set and all viewing and surfing were done using Netscape 1.x or 2.0. Optimal viewing is on a SVGA system.

Various people were bugged for assistance during the process. And thank you, Web Design List!

I've used lots of tables for formatting. May your browser not barf. However, I think I have all my graphics "ALT"ed, and most of them are pretty small, so this should be pretty user-friendly.

This is the name I'm known by in the Society for Creative Anachronism. "Arglwyddes" is Welsh for "Lady," which is the title I've been granted by the Crown of my kingdom, Trimaris. I've been interested in Wales and Welsh history for years and years, and have found some wonderful sites to visit touching on Wales and other Celtic lands.

In the Society, I've also met some wonderful people, who have Web pages of their own.

The SCA has also let me practice something I really seem to have a gift for: Heraldry (although SCAdian heraldry has its own peculiarities not shared with mundane Colleges of Arms). The Society's Armorial & Ordinary (essential heraldic references) are virtually available, making them very convenient to obtain and update.

Onomastics heralds, look over here! I've found some unbelievable Celtic reference books!

I've scanned and coloured the armory from the most recent Trimarian Internal Letter of heraldic submissions - feel free to take a look....

This is my moniker in the seemingly-comatose Blue Blaze Irregulars, the "civilian" support network for Dr. Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers. Some other Blue Blazes and I were noodling around with a round-robin Banzai fanfic once, which turned into the crossover story of all time. By the time we trailed off, we had dragged in characters or actors from David Lynch & Mark Frost's Twin Peaks (currently a mainstay of Bravo!, cable-casting from Canada), Twentieth Century-Fox's Starsky & Hutch, Paramount Television's MacGyver, Universal's Miami Vice, Stephen J. Cannell's Sonny Spoon, Donald Bellisario's Quantum Leap, plus miscellaneous bits of folklore and legend (but not Legend). Since a chunk of the story took place in Vancouver, eventually, I'm sure, we would have dragged in Forever Knight, The X-Files and Highlander at some point. Hey, maybe we still will!

Too bad we couldn't fit Babylon 5 and The Wild Wild West in somehow... hmmmm....

My vet gave me this name because I'm not a wimp. ;) I don't know what Medeni thinks of me as, other than (maybe) "Mom" -- she's the prettiest Cardigan Corgi in Miami, even if she has gotten a little chubby in her older age. I met some neat people from CORGI-L, the Corgi Internet list, at the Cardigan Nationals in June 1995, in Orlando.

I'm pretty good at identifying other breeds, too -- at least the American Kennel Club-recognized breeds. I go out of my way to visit puppies of any breed! And then there's the Dogz of another colour....

I started using this when I first got on-line. I've got a corgi kind of mindset, I think, so it suited me from that angle; I also wanted to use a gender-neutral nickname, to see what kind of reactions I'd get. Gender politics kinda fascinate me.

Being Corgi allowed me to find neat places like the Geek Site of the Day (among others), Dr. Fun (which always seems to load awfully slowly for me) and -- tipped off by Dave Barry -- the infamous Snowball Cam, and other remote devices.

It's also given me access to alt.fan.mike-jittlov and "The Rialto" on Usenet...
annnnnnnd SFF Net, where all the neatest GEnie refugees are accumulating.

Also check out SFF Net's "cousin" site, Dueling Modems.

As Corgi, I have recently been dubbed "Warrior Princess of the Internet" . Take that as you will [big grin]. Or take yourself over to my own newsgroup

I've never really gotten to use this name much. I'm one of the long-time albeit fairly inactive members of the Elfquest Fan Club, back when it was free. I've got an elf character in mind, but probably won't ever do much with the concept, alas. I started reading comics put out by DC, unlike most people (it seems), and I still refuse to read Marvel's main "universe" which used to suffer in my comparison. Nowadays, I'll usually pick up the mainstream alternatives, like Vertigo and Milestone; more infrequently, Epic (are they still around?) and occasionally flat-out independents. But Wonder Woman (either Dr. Moulton's or George Perez's envisionment), is still my all-time favourite; the Batman and his associates are a close second tied with the Black Canary (wherever she is...). Thinking of whom, there's an interesting Oz site on "Women in Comics"....

Uhhhh ...

nevermind.

I'm only second-gen U.S. -- my ancestry is Gaelic-Canadian. I'm Scots by way of my paternal grandmother; she and her husband came down from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts. My maternal grandparents came from New Brunswick; and then my parents moved down to Miami, for my father's business' reasons. I really identify with my ethnic background, and as a result, really enjoy myself at the Southeast Florida Scottish Festival and Games, put on by the Scottish-American Society of South Florida every St. David's Day weekend, once at beautiful Hialeah Park (no flamingos invited), but now at Plantation Heritage Park in mid-Broward County.

This is also the name I'd like to use if I ever wrote fiction professionally ... if that ever happens. Until then, I'll be busy reading the works of some wonderful writers like Ashley McConnell, Holly Lisle and Judith Tarr, whom I know from GEnie...

Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov (I like his non-fiction best, actually), E.E. "Doc" Smith, "Kenneth Roberson" and Edgar Rice Burroughs, who have written seminal and classic F&SF...

Great people who aren't on-line themselves: John Varley, Patricia Keneally Morrison, Katherine Kurtz, Lois McMaster Bujold, Barbara Hambly...

And then there's a few writers whose work I haven't had the fortune to read yet, but I've met on-line, like Doyle & Macdonald....

I am one of Mike Jittlov's "official" video privateers, helping distribute copies of his incomplete film, The Wizard of Speed and Time. More organized people than I have far more accessible information, at The Web Page of Speed and Time, The Wizard of Speed and Time!, The Wizard of Speed and Time Website!, Falken's Web: WOSAT AND The Wizard of Speed and Time webpages. Mike used to be quite active on alt.fan.mike-jittlov, a newsgroup founded by his fen, but his time is spread pretty thin among many projects.

Some other WizFan pages of interest, outside of purely Wizardly info, are those of/about some of the "regulars" in the newsgroup - like Gharlane of Eddore and the Green Gecko. You're already on my page. This isn't trying to show favoritism, these are just the pages I've visited most recently.

One of the infamous Jittlovian posts is a parody of some of the pyramid-scheme spam -- BIG.MONEY.FAST! Hmmm ... I should dig up some of the stuff I reposted and build links (wandering off mumbling).

Oh, before I forget: Mike's work has inspired a lot of effects artists, and even if they haven't been influenced, houses like.... [link to list forthcoming]

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