Home Page of Steven K. Baum


This home page contains information and pointers to information concerning topics in which I have some sort of interest, be that professionally or personally. You may notice a distinct lack of graphics, pictures, and the like. This is because I've developed this Web page entirely with the use of the Lynx browser on a VT-200 terminal emulator. This is partly due to equipment limitations and partly due to a (probably cantankerous) notion that one should develop at least the skeleton of these things first without the use of graphics, which can later be added to enhance and extend the beast. Enjoy.

Tersely identified list of salient sites
The short form, so to speak, of sites described (or perhaps not) elsewhere in these pages so as to allow your humble author to access them felicitously.

Pointers to information on various topics
Collections of links to topics as diverse as oceanography, climatology and paleoclimatology, parallel computing, text processing, etexts, numerical analysis, UNIX, computer languages, etc.
Meta-resources on the net
This is a list of resources that point to other resources on the net, i.e. meta-resources. One wonders when it will get to the next level, i.e. meta-meta-meta-resources.
Technical bibliographies
A collection of bibliographies on topics such as oceanography papers and textbooks, review papers, paleoclimatology, wavelets, etc. Most are in BibTeX format.
Quotations
Collections of quotations. Some funny. Some profound. Some downright boneheaded.
Sesquipedalia and bibliomania
Here is a collection of word lists, dictionaries, and various other interesting things in the realm of wordology. If someone went to the trouble to invent an overly large and recondite term, then we owe it to them to pass these polysyllabic gyrations onward if only to annoy our friends and enemies.
Interesting sites to investigate
A collection of sites that have piqued my interest or curiosity in one way or another. Your mileage, as is said, may vary.
How to create directories like this using HTML
What you are reading was created using Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), which is a way of marking up documents and encoding document structure with a minimum of presentation information. This allows the viewer that you're using (e.g. Mosaic, Lynx, etc.) to present the information contained therein in whatever format is supported by that viewer. It also facilitates portability in that the document isn't tied down to a specific piece of software or hardware. This leads to information about the World Wide Web (WWW), HTML, and related things.
Papers
Published papers on which I've labored.
NCAR online manuals and info
Personal information
Reader beware.