Dr. Irene Pepperberg's African Grey parrot, Alex, has learned to use some nouns as adjectives; hence, "rock corn" for dry, hard corn kernels, and "cork nut" for pitted almonds in the shell.

The Alex Foundation

Latest Changes

06 Dec 2005 I have released worksafer, a Firefox extension to help you avoid stumbling across unsafe websites at work.

03 May 2005 New album of Disney World photos from our April 2005 trip is up. Enjoy!

24 Feb 2004 The site is grey today to support Grey Tuesday.

29 Jan 2004 I just resurrected my SameURL toy (previously known as MakeTheSameLink, which you can see but not use at the WayBack Machine.

16 Dec 2003 Since DeadJournal is so popular, and since every time I release a meme I get asked for a DJ version, I've added links to the DJ versions of memes to the Toys page.

15 Dec 2003 Just put up the 12 Days of Christmas toy. Happy holidays!

27 Oct 2003 The newest LiveJournal toy, Trick or Treat!, is active.

16 Oct 2003 Successfully moved the site to a more high-powered server. The Pizza Arbiter is still non-functional but that will be resolved quickly.

17 Sep 2003 I just released the Potion Maker toy. Give it a try!

10 Sep 2003 The Corknut Movie Reviews are back up, now with a RSS feed available so you can keep up to date with my silly anagrammatic reviews.

08 Sep 2003 I released the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Analysis toy today, and put up photos of my brother's wedding in the photo collection.

28 Aug 2003 I spent some time today rewriting the old classic First-Person Shooter Level Name Generator script in Perl, so it's back up in the toys section.

26 Aug 2003 I've put together a brand new design for the front page of the site, inspired by the CSS Zen Garden. For the first time in my life, I've written a document that uses valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS.

25 Aug 2003 I've posted the source code for the LJSitcom toy. It's completely commented and cleaned up, and should be readable by any decent Perl coder. This is not a very complex script, but there's been fairly high demand for it, so here it is.