Things I Wrote
I've liked to write since I was a boy about yay high. In fact, my first published work came in the 3rd Grade -- an epic called "Harry the Hero" for which I created both words and pictures. (Stick figures don't go over as well today, though.) Harry, of course, saved lots of people from a burning building. Everybody loved him. They laminated the story and, presumably, still have it in the library at Jackson Park Elementary School in Bremerton, Washington, filed under "Undesirables."
Since then, I've turned my sights to more earthly tasks.
Stories
Since you have not seen my name in the New Yorker, these are just drafts. Let me know what you think of them.
- Plumb Useless - how far would you go to show your love?
- Big Fairways - that crazy game of golf
- Two Percent - a humorous kidnapping
- There's Only One Great One - deciding to marry
- Consequentially Advertising - ad guys gone batty!
Movie/TV Reviews
(spoiler warning: don't read the review unless you've seen the movie)
- Matrix Reloaded
- Heat
- Quick Change
- Primal Fear
- Fearless
- Silence of the Lambs
- The Fugitive
- Flirting with Disaster
- Homicide (TV show)
Articles
CTAA Work
- Making New Technologies Work for Rural Transportation (InfoBrief)
- Belt Tightening: How to Survive in Lean Times (Technical Assistance Brief)
- Rural Transit Performance Management (Technical Assistance Brief)
- Rural Transit Systems and
ITS (Standalone Insert to CTR Magazine)
This is an interesting area -- Intelligent Transportation Systems might have a big impact on a lot of peoples' lives in the future. Go to the corporate shill ITS America or the ITS Online Forum to learn more. (Or read my article!) - CTAA Stakes Out ISTEA
Positions (CTR 7/96)
Co-author credit with the big guy. He did the real work, I just made it sound okay. - Analyzing
Transportation Costs and Scheduling Drivers Made Easier with New Software
(CTR 7/96)
Not my best effort. - Coordination in
Fresno: CTSAs Weave Transportation into Effective Service (CTR 5/96)
Snore. Not a bad article, but it's got an acronym in the title! - What Drives a Driver?
(CTR 4/96)
Cute. Fairly well-written. It's not easy to sort through 2,000 surveys and pick out the most interesting anecdotes. The ones that we included are nifty. - Gas Tax Exemptions:
It Makes Sense to Everyone...Except the IRS (CTR 2/96)
Fight the power! This article really opened some eyes, and people are still dealing with the issue. - Internet Resources
(CTR 1/96)
Interesting, but terribly outdated now. - Head Start Transportation Not Yet a Full Partipant in Coordination (CTR 12/95)
- The Unseen Danger of Bloodborne Pathogens (CTR 9/95)
Montgomery County Work
- The Link Between Land Use, Transportation and Air Quality (Environmental Planning Quarterly, Spring/Summer 94); online version includes (really long) annotated bibliography. Also note that you can form one of the greatest acronyms ever with this: LUTRAQ!
Pitt News
(Yes, my writing career is sparse enough and yes, I'm vain enough to include material I wrote in college)
- Interview: comic book creator Dave Sim's visit to Pittsburgh (2/27/92)
- Review: Wayne's World Review (2/13/92)
- Column: Who's to blame for indigestion? (1/9/92)
- Column: Expensive Appearance = Respect? (1/8/92)
- Column: Genders battle over pain and suffering (10/6/91)
- Column: Images conjured by names often odd (10/22/91)