Welcome to Santiago's Pages

A Resource for Poetry, Art, Games, Music, and More

Welcome to my site. I've put together several pages dealing with my interests; hopefully, you'll find something here that interests you as well. I encourage you to browse through the links below. And, before you get started, I will make you a solemn promise that you will not find a single one of those damn "Under Construction" thingies anywhere among my material, even though everything here is naturally a work in progress (but you shouldn't run into into any bad (internal) links or broken images). Enjoy!

Oh, and if you want some help navigating around, try my interactive site outline (with real sproinging action).

For those of you who actually bother to come back here more than once, I also have a What's New feature. Be sure to check it out.

• Art - Anything graphical
  • Paintings - A sampling of my portfolio
  • Desktop Pictures - Images for your monitor
  • Sculpture - Anything three-dimensional
  • 3D Renderings - Computer-generated pictures
    • Bert - A cute multihued iPenguin
    • Spacecraft - Some space ships I designed for a game project now canned due to other priorities
• Design - Bits and resources on design, both for the web and in general
  • Web Badges - "Power" your site with everything from steam to chocolate to tigers
  • PowerBook G4 Cobalt - A color-tinted mockup of what the PowerBook G4 Titanium might look like if it were anodized blue
  • iServe - A full mockup of an Apple page for a hypothetical low-end server
• Games - Board, Card and Tile
  • Mah Jong - Information about and rules for playing Mah Jong, a traditional Chinese tile game similar to Gin Rummy (but more fun)
  • Orbs - An original board game you can play with only a Chinese Checkers board and some extra marbles. Simple to learn, hard to master...
  • Icehouse - Pictures of my Icehouse set, little pyramids used to play strange games
  • Magic: the Gathering
    • Live-Draft Magic: the Gathering - A variant that lets you draft your deck during play
    • No-Land Magic: the Gathering - A variant that eliminates mana problems by letting you play spells as lands
  • Game Theory
    • Drafting in Games - An article I had published in The Games Journal
• Humor Zone - Lots of funny stuff (What did you expect with a title like that?)
• Miniatures - Tiny statues and the games you play with them
  • Fairy Meat - A deliciously twisted little game about cannibal fairy combat
• Nonfiction - Assorted essays, rants, and ramblings I have written
• Poetry - Pieces of verse penned by my own personal self
• Role-Playing Games - Fun ways to waste time with friends
  • In Nomine Resources - Fiction and rules extensions for this great RPG about angels and demons
  • Exalted Resources - Quick reference summaries and original content for this awesome RPG about reborn divine heroes in a world spiralling into chaos
  • Earth & Sky - A quick little game idea I wrote up for a Pieces & Parts Challenge on RPG.net
  • Sixguns & Succubi - Another entry in a Pieces & Parts Challenge
  • Miscellaneous Setting Ideas - Quick descriptions of settings you can borrow for inspiration
  • Golden Gate Chronicle Resource - Information for setting a Vampire the Masquerade Chronicle in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Toys - Useless Digital Fun
  • The Jägerizer - Converts your writings into Jägermonster-speak
  • Animals - An online game where the computer tries to guess the animal you're thinking of, and learns from you. Really silly and lots of fun!
  • Life - An implementation of Life, the classic 2D cellular automaton
  • Jurassic Park - Coordinating multiple process via semaphores, and a T. Rex that eats people
  • Neuro-Evolution - A simple example of evolving neural networks to perform a pattern recognition task, with multiple interbreeding populations
  • RSA Cracking - A simulation of a client-server architecture to crack RSA-encrypted messages by brute force
  • Hydrocarbons - A pointless little bit of Java-based fluff

• Infinite Recursion - Virtually no original content, just links
  • ReBoot Links - Links to lots of sites about ReBoot, a cool TV show from the end of the last century, as well as a brief description for those of you unfortunate enough to never have heard of it

• The Catacombs - Old content, rarely if ever updated
  • Computer Wargaming - Links and miscellaneous junk dealing with this addictive genre of games

This site was designed on a Macintosh with BBEdit, and brought to you by the Apache web server running on a Mac Mini. It is best viewed in a fully standards-compliant browser, including proper support for the eight-year-old CSS level 1 definitions and PNG images. (IE for Windows does not meet this simple definition, despite Microsoft being capable of making IE for Mac work just fine. This site includes some work arounds for certain IE bugs, but you really should get a functional browser instead.) The site is intended for a full-screen-window on at least a 640x480 monitor at a depth of at least 16 bits, but the bigger and deeper, the better (that would be your screen I'm talking about). (None of my HTML code specifies colors other than the original 216 web-safe ones, but all my graphics will dither most nastily on 256 color systems, which really are a few orders of magnitude obsolete.)

9050 people have wasted their precious time here since 5 April 1997.

© Andrés Santiago Pérez-Bergquist, All rights reserved. The reproduction of this work, by any means electronic, physical, or otherwise, in whole or in part, except for the purposes of review or criticism, without the express written consent of the author, is strictly prohibited. All references to copyrighted and/or trademarked names and ideas held by other individuals and/or corporations should not be considered a challenge to said copyrights and trademarks.

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