I hope you enjoyed the wonderful Infinity logo on the previous page.  It was designed by my good friend Blackhawk, and serves as a mapped image for links to the rest of my site.  If you skipped to this page before it finished loading, you will need to head backward to go forward;  this page is a dead end.

If you came to this page deliberately it is very likely that you know who I am and what I do when I'm logged onto the Internet...but for anyone who may have fallen into a rabbit hole and found this page at the bottom, peeping at you, perhaps some introductions are in order.

I'm your host, Captain Infinity.  Some personal info about myself can be found elsewhere on this site (if you look hard enough) so I won't repeat myself here.  Let me tell you what you'll find on these pages:

My main interest in the Internet is that facet known as Usenet, or News.  I find Usenet newsgroups, and the people who post to them, fascinating and fun.  I'm a writer at heart, but have a very short attention span and an even smaller supply of patience, so the spontaneity and ever evolving nature of the Groups sparks my interest and creativity in ways that short story writing cannot.

So what you will find herein are, for the most part, samples of Usenet brought to the web.  Some are samples of my own writing, some are samples of the works of other posters who entertain and delight me.  Quite a few are a crossover breed, in which my creativity has intermingled with the wit and talent of other posters.  Many posts in the Right Loop have nothing to do with me, except that they made me laugh or otherwise entertained me. But make no mistake, this site is very much about *me*.  I make no apologies for this narcissism.  If you don't want to read writings by me, or about me, you've come to the wrong place.

I have separated these posts three groups, and have structured my web site on that basis...and placed it all onto my personal fixation, Infinity.

The Infinity symbol on the previous page is designed to allow you access into each of these areas.  The Left Loop will bring you to my own Usenet posts, while the Right Loop will lead you to posts created by others.  At the Cross Threads you will find a mixed bag of items, generally creative works which relied on the input and participation of several people.  There you will also find some explanatory posts which fall into this general category, by a variety of authors, as well as a page of Web links.

A piece of administrivia: please be aware that all the posts you read on my web pages are the copyrighted intellectual property of the person named in the "From" header of the post.  If you find something that interests you and you wish to share it with others, it would be a simple act of kindness and courtesy to ask them if it's okay to pass it along, or at least inform others about who the original author is.

All Usenet posts appear exactly as I saw them on my newsreader, with no editing of content or form except for the occasional munging of an email address.  In some cases I have added extra spamfoil text; in other cases I have eliminated the address entirely.  This editing has been done either by request, or by personal choice.  In most cases, I have left the email address in the "From" headers exactly as it appeared in the original post, but I have removed email addresses from the body of the reproduced articles.

As I mentioned earlier, you need to go back to go forward.  Have fun.
 

Web site contents are Copyright © Captain Infinity Productions.
All Usenet posts reproduced herein are the copyrighted intellectual property of the poster named in the "From" header.