• Kohan -- For players of the computer game Kohan.
• Cosplayers -- Pictures of people in costume.
• Models & Art -- Samples of my miniature models and artwork.
• Software -- Free software I've written.
• Misc -- Everything else.

• Films from many games of Kohan
  
  
• Strategy for people new to the game. Although this page is ment for beginners, there is material for all Kohan players.
  
  
• Maps with lots of custom triggers or interesting designs. Probably the only maps online worth downloading IMHO.
  
  
• Links to other Kohan sites

Cosplayers

2001

• Otakon

  This was one of the first conventions I brought my camera to. I wasn't nearly as much of a shutterbug then.

• AnimeUSA

  The cosplay pictures came out dark and I havn't compensated for it on any of these pictures.

2002

• Katsucon 8

  These pictures were indexed by a different program (not genindex). The overall quality is pretty good, since the hotel was well lit and I was bored at times.

• Otakon

  I got over my shyness, but was hampered by a broken leg at this Otakon. It's not easy to chase down cosplayers and take pictures on crutches. You can actually see me in picture 839.

• AnimeUSA

  With no broken leg to hamper me, I managed to snap a gross of pictures at this little con.

2003

• Katsucon 9

  Despite not making it back on Sunday on account of the 2 feet of snow, I managed to take 254 pictures at Katsucon. The hotel was a little cramped though, and it was hard to get good shots.

• Anime Mid Atlantic 3

  Marvelous little convention down in Richmond, VA. The hotel was a little odd, but the convention was very nice.

• Nekocon 6

  I worked staff at this convention in Virginia Beach, so I don't have a lot of pictures. Nice convention, even if they were a little too big for their hotel.

Scale Models and Art

• Pictures of a few of my models from Battletech, Heavy Gear, and Gear Krieg. Included is a HT-68 Hovertank (HG), Ferret (HG), Kodiak Destroyer (HG), Loki (GK), General Early (GK), General Longstreet (GK), Strike Jaguar (HG), Black Cat (HG), White Cat EWH (HG), Fire Hunter (HG--Custom), City Hunter (HG), Jaguar (HG), Tarantula (BT), Tankhunter (HG). Warning these pictures were taken with a security camera.
  
  
• Pictures of the Kinomoto Misaki with Hikaru model I gave to my sister for Christmas '01. It came out OK for a job that was rushed at the end. All in all I wish I'd spent more time on it, but even this wasn't done until mere hours before boarding the plane to Louisiana. Oh well, there's always next time.
  
  
• Pictures of the Vash the Stampede model I painted for Jessica's Birthday. This was a serious rush job that really came out better than I expected (expect for the head).
  
  
• Also from the 2001 AnimeUSA convention: I took the cell painting course (despite the 3 hour delay in starting) with the infamous Steve Bennett. Part of the course naturally involved painting your own cell. I choose a Vampire Princess Miyu cell that had unfortunatly been photocopied backwards. I thought I did ok for my first time. :) The cell really does look better in person, for some reason the photograph brought out all of the little imperfections. :/
  
  
• From Otakon 2002, I went to the cell painting workshop again and did a pretty spiffy Naga (from Slayers) cell. Next time I hope to do even better. This one is a bit rough around the edges but at least it is better than Miyu.

Software

• If you've ever wanted to use regular expressions in C (are you with me perl junkies?), but found the syntax of the POSIX regular expression engine horrific (and who hasn't?), you'll want to take a look at Easyregex, which is a simple wrapper that hides the horrible POSIX interface and lets you pop out regular expressions in no time.
  
  
• I have written a front end for dcgen.pl, a Jovian Chronicles Lightning Strike Data Card generator script. The datacards it generates are fully playable, and are much much easier on your printer than the standard datacards. Point your browser to LSheet and generate your own.
  
  
• Here's a copy of the frequntly disappearing Heavy Gear vehicle contruction system Under Construction. I'm hoping to avoid the curse this utility brings to pages. Everywhere it has been hosted in the past has disapperaed without a peep rather quickly. Beware that this utility has not been updated for the v.2 construction rules (and those rules are out of print!), but the only real difference is a slight discrepancy in the TV calculation that you can generally safely ignore.
  
  
• Way back in 1997 when I was trying to learn Perl, I wrote a little script that generated an index image for a directory with a lot of images in it. I've used it for almost all of the cosplay pictures above. Five years later I decided to release it as Genindex 2.6.1. Granted there are a lot of programs out there that generate indexes, but very few of them keep the number of files down, avoid running themselves needlessly, or generate fully W3C compliant web-optimized[1] HTML.
  [1] By "web-optimized" I mean that the index is one large imagemap instead of many smaller thumbnails. This is generally faster for various reasons (TCP's somewhat expensive 3-way handshake and slow start primarily).
  
  For an example of Genindex in action, I have a small sample of Masume Shirow images. This index was created with the following genindex command with the default HTML templates:
  
  genindex -s index -f jpg -i -q -across 6
  
  
• My Battlemech Construction Spreadsheet, which I used extensivly back on the old Mac. This sheet is pretty sophisticated, but not particularly easy to use, it was designed for me and my brother. With all of the myriad true Battlemech construction programs out there I can't imagine anybody is really interested in this. It wants Excel 95 or better (although older versions of Excel will probablly work too).

Misc

• Scans from the Japanese version of Battletech by FASA.
  Update: Battletech is now owned by Wizkids. Wizkids is converting Battletech over to it's own click base system. Heaven help us all. Classic Battletech is now handled by the German company Fanpro.
  
  
• An awesome Heavy Gear comic called Wild Rovers created by Nate Denney.
  
  
• Results from a quick and easy softpad mod I did on my cheap Dance Dance Revolution pads. The modification is easy and the results are astounding.
  
  
• On May 31, 2003, I took a trip out to the US National Arboretum with the people from NVAA. I got many pictures from the trip, particularly the Bonsai exhibit.