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WHO ARE YOU?
Steven A. Carabello, or (for the purposes of this website), SCarab. Physics graduate student, computer programmer, writer, sketcher, painter, collector, piano player, singer, music composer, ...

I've gathered and created a lot of information, and that information is worth sharing. Therefore, it made sense for me to make a web page. What do I get out of it? Well, I enjoy building things, and I expect the skills that I learn in building these pages will serve me well in a job or in expanding my computer hobby. Also, I'd like to find people out there with similar interests, possibly to collaborate on some programming projects or writing more science fiction, or to get some advice on drawing anime, or...

Among the more annoying things about the internet, I've found, is how many web pages you have to dig through to get to anything you actually want. Therefore, I've developed an "intuitive image interface," which I use below. As it is now, the format would allow you to get to 64 different pages without looking at a huge links page, while staying on the same page. (I have 35 pages actually linked currently.) This could easily be expanded to any number, with just a few modifications to the JavaScript I've used. Here it is:

Please Note: clicking on an active image link opens a new browser window so that it's rather easy to get back here. I plan to make the code better than the messy HTML/JavaScript stuff I have so far, but it works. If you want to use something similar, please hire me to do it, or at least give me credit and let me know about it.

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Credits

To get to any of the three incarnations of this page
(if you're having trouble, or have speed concerns), use the following:

Bare-bones text
with JavaScript

Many static pictures,
no JavaScript

Fancy interactive images
using JavaScript

A note to anyone out there looking at this page: I started the building of this thing really long ago, never planning on having a public page. I found a lot of stuff which I like enough to put on these pages, but have lost track of where much has come from. If there's anything on these pages that's inappropriate, LET ME KNOW. I will remove it, or give credit, as necessary.