John H. Farr is a writer and artist living at 7,000 feet or so in Taos, New Mexico. He used to crank out one of these FARR SITE columns every week but now concentrates on GRACK! As Senior Editor for Applelinks , John also writes the daily news. His personal Zoozone site features current FARR SITE columns, which focus on life in northern New Mexico. For a different New Mexico photo every day, please visit FotoFeed.com. Want more? A complete Web index of all written works by John H. Farr, including online archived versions of material appearing originally in print, is available at JHFarr.com. Drop by and take a look!

And don't forget to visit the FARR SITE archive pages for 2000 as well as for 1998. There's a full three years' worth to read...

	1999 ARCHIVE
Dec. 20, 1999	"Idiot's Revenge" features High Times in the Desert with Mirabal & Co! Karmic overload excites and gives author pause as highs and lows are amplified in the thin, dry air...
Dec.13 1999	"Can't Catch Me!" features Manic Hispanics, iBook, and Bye-Bye 20th! Too much coffee, rock and roll, a fast car and even faster iBook combine to almost make the pain go away. (Maybe next year!)
Dec. 6, 1999	"Love and the Internet Hog" features Hawgs, Web Sneaks, and a Silver Miracle! Technology can't save your soul but it just might help you keep the peace. (AirPort rules!)
Nov. 29, 1999	"Flash Different: iBook Coyote RAM" features Purple Snow, Dead Magazine, iBook Rumble! Coyotes know from different but gearheads don't -- wake up and smell the future!
Nov. 22, 1999	"Macs, Womanhood, and the Guadalajara Grill" features How to Be the Baddest Mac Jockey in Town! A day or two in the life of a lunatic -- and you say you'd like to try this?
Nov. 15, 1999	"UFO Geekout on Lobo Peak" features Dead Domain, Blue Lights, and the Mighty Puma! Mysteries of the Internet are revealed, but everything else is up for grabs. (Look to the skies...)
Nov. 9, 1999	"Odyssey of Mystery" features On the Road Internet Connection Blues! Why are we doing this, what are we doing here, and -- Oh! THAT's it! (All you need is love.)
Nov. 1, 1999	"Help, I'm an Art Form!" features Mac Lit, Packing Panic, and Getting Shed! Author finds that breakin' up is hard to do (especially if you've been collecting junk for years) but tries to learn from the leaves.
Oct. 25, 1999	"Yard Sale at Dawn" features Money, Stuff, Attachments, and Monitor in My Lap! Hah -- if you think THIS is hard, wait 'til the savings account runs out! Hey, wanna buy a box of old floppies?
Oct. 18, 1999	"Light in My Eyes" f features Mildew, G4 Madness, Real Villains, and Jackasses. This week we walk a fine line, so fine in fact that -- HEY! Where'd it go? (Onward!)
Oct. 11, 1999	"Snow on the Mountain" features Mountains, Macs, No TV, and a Big Six! A special double-sized mini-epic: snowstorms, Ford trucks, Macs in the back, antelope, and a big slap in the face from civilization. (What a deal!)
Oct. 4, 1999	"Sacred Clowns" features iMac Photos, Indians, and What Apple Needs. Oh no! Author finally succumbs and blows up the boardroom -- give 'em hell, Harpo! (Honk! Honk!)
Sept. 27, 1999	"Moonburn" features This Is "Simple"? I Want My Junk TV! A lot of things behave differently at 8,000 feet, especially UFOs, photons, and brain waves. What's the lesson?
Sept. 20, 1999	"Machina Encantada" features Flashing Browsers, Giant Jackrabbits, and How to Die Happy but Weird. Beauty and bizarreness drive author to think. (Now get that skunk! -- if it IS a skunk. . .)
Sept. 13, 1999	"Waiting for iBook" features iBook is Coming, Yes? I Will Wait. . . Sensory overload leaves author reeling and casting spells, but will magic be enough to deliver the Tangerine Marvel to the edge of the wilderness?
Sept. 6, 1999	"New Mexico or Bust!" (Parts One and Two) features a Double Dose! Two whole pages of on-the-road adventure featuring Two People, A Cat, and a Truckful of Macs! Author, wife, cat, and computers survive 4-day road trip and end up in paradise.
August 23, 1999	"Die, Worry, Die!" features Internet Fakers and the Great Web Divide, Real Estate Rant, and Surrendering To the Mystery (Grow or Die!). The perils of doing too little balance the futility of trying to do too much, leaving our hero with a truck full of Macs and a sunset to catch.
August 16, 1999	"Macs On the Prairie" features Bust That Box and Hit the Road, Bandwidth in the Boonies, and Advice for Manly Men Who Need to Pee! Buffalo meat memories, and high tech on the high plains send author in search of white space in the Rand McNally.
August 9, 1999	"Birthday Nexus" features a Birthday Boy Special: A-Bombs Make the Man, How Much is Too Much, and Screw the Eclipse, We're Doing Fine! Author rides vibes through Nagasaki, hardware upgrades, Olympic National Park, and intimations of doom -- but the boy is pumped!
August 2, 1999	"Johnny Internet: Transfer Interrupted!" features Saturday Morning Chore Disposal, Macworld Remembered, and Why Johnny Wants an iBook! Follow along as Johnny falls under the keynote spell and decides to do what he wants. (The boy is on a roll. . .)
July 26, 1999	"Sweat City" (Rating: R) features a Macworld Expo New York Special: Hot City, iBook Mania, and The Acrid Smell of Success! New York churns while author learns, news at 10. News flash: the iCEO is human too, thank God!
July 19, 1999	"Code Red" features Dirty Air, Hot Englishmen, and Say, Have I Shown You My Press Pass? I Did Already? Really?? Author battles meteorological forces of evil and heads for New York to join the party.
July 12, 1999	"In Mysterious Ways" features El Comandante Strikes Again! Anti-Gravity Steve, Flying Laptops, Nanoprobes from Hell, and Alfredo! (Who?). Pre-Macworld madness finds fortunate (?) author at the mercy of infamous "universal force for good" as feds close in!
July 5, 1999	"Independence Day" features Home Alone and Hot, Real Estate Blues, My Finder or Your Life, Virginia Garbage, Radiation, and More! Our 4th of July Special! Author finds metaphysical relief but sweats like a pig, and is a homebuyer too much to ask for?
June 28, 1999	"Part II: Nobody Here But Us Chickens!" features a Special Joint Article on Home Computer Security: Farr Site and John Martellaro's Warp Core (Part I) Spread the Word! Hackers, Firewalls, Nesting Catbirds, What You Need and Why!
June 21, 1999	"Internet Work" features Welding Steel Keeps You Real, All the Pretty Cat Skulls, and No Thanks, I'll Just Sit Here and Surf! Author recalls day of yore when men were men and pixel-pushing was sissy work. (Can he have his check now?)
June 14, 1999	"The Big Gray Wall" features Buying the Future With Dirty Money, More Set-Top Trash, and How to Go Really Fast in a Kayak! Find out who called CE "a trimmed-down Windows hairball," and learn why every juggernaut isn't worth the worry.
June 7, 1999	"The Ineffability of Wisdom" features Three Macs, One Mac, Six Bits, a Dollar! Unexpectedly short synopsis sends editors and friends scrambling for their mice. You got to find that link and click it, click it good!
May 31, 1999	"Comandante K: Whine Patrol" features Comandante Karma! Hide Your Modems, Toss Those Filters, and Learn How to Shut Up and Eat Your Dessert! Unexpected encounter with semi-violent Web entity and force for universal good leaves author weary but wiser.
May 24, 1999	"Johnny Internet and the Grownup Manual" Johnny Rides Again! Anvil on His Chest, Too Much Stuff, and How Do You Drive This Thing? Perseverance furthers as Internet dude finds reality a trip best avoided but learns to write his own script.
May 17, 1999	"Git Off'n My Teevee!" features Saving Old Macs, Steenking Set-tops To the Landfill, and Why These Guys Make Me Nervous. Major evil-doers thwarted in grand exposé of fat-pipe fakery as author sniffs the wind for something to trust.
May 10, 1999	"Burning Brains" features: Organ Heist, Glowing Geeks, Apple Buzz, and Hildegard's Flaming 12th Century Brain! Stolen body part returned but souvenir hunters still prowl as burning psyches light up San Jose.
May 3, 1999	"Livin' in the Wild Wild West" features the Cisco Kid and Pancho, Ozona Patrolmen and the Pecos River Blues, and Why We're All Sidekicks! Metaphor mania brings heros to life and banishes hardware lust as author finds salvation in nothing and joy in the jump.
April 26, 1999	"Arming the Happy Rebels" features Mark That Day, Power to the People, and How to Ride Quicktime and PowerMacs to the Promised Land. QuickTime rebels take axes to the cheese and invent a new world as author beats the drum.
April 19, 1999	"A Little Farther Out of Town" features All Stove-In, Septic Tanks and Computers, And How to Live With a Red-Hot Spear In Your Chest! Important lessons take the long way home but finally arrive as author decides to take it all with him.
April 12, 1999	"It's In the Blood" features a Springtime Special! Bird Blood, Gates Blood, John Blood, Apple Blood, Blood on the Saddle, & Blood on the Ground! Spring spills a little of the red stuff and everything's cool, but what does it mean?
April 5, 1999	"Moving Madness" features Learning from Losers, Where Did THAT Come From, and How To Get Rich After I'm Gone! Serbs show off as author ponders packing and wonders whether he should stop complaining, after all.
March 29, 1999	"Transformation Boogie" features Help! Murder! Police! Meat Grinder Madness, Buy This House, and PowerMacs and Puma Transfusions. Evil hoodlumns and metaphysical distress provoke therapeutic rant as computers and mountain lions change everything.
March 22, 1999	"Cute Little Critters" features iMacs for the Masses, Everybody Must Get Cute, and 15 Minutes of Fame with the Lost Austin Band! The amazing iMac as cheap thrill, magical gift, and mood-enhancing marvel, VWs and armadillos included.
March 15, 1999	"Radio Salvation" features House for Sale, Rock and Roll Medicine, and How to Save a Life With Solar Power! Teenage miracles remembered and angels applaud as Internet radio gives author a kick in the head.
March 8, 1999	"How To Live" features Helmut and the Hill Country, Bathrooms and Ghosts, and Grown-up Gambles for Fun and Profit! Ground shifts under author's feet as old advice is made fresh and we try to push a friend over the edge.
March 1, 1999	"Johnny Internet: Dreamwatch" features a Special Dream Episode: Madness and Rebellion, Adobe Lust, Fear-Crazed Weirdos, and How to Banish Demons! It's off the deep end with Johnny and his pals, as fear-besotted author finds solace in guidance from unusual sources.
February 22, 1999	"Farahani and the Banker" features Pistachio Nuts, Secret Agent in the Classroom, Internet Surprise, and Tangled Up in Blood! Rifle-wielding would-be lover blasts his way into tragedy and somehow strikes a blow for peace.
February 15, 1999	"Powerful Companions" features Freddy the Wonder Horse, Hook 'Em Horns, Missing Zen Potter, and Pray 'Em If You Got 'Em! Whom to thank before you let go and leap boundless chasms that may not even exist, goosebumps optional.
February 8, 1999	"God Loves Comedy" features the Amazing Smoking Video, Disaster Dining, and the Incredible Clueless Man from Albuquerque. Lawyers and other idiots drive world to brink of madness as author finds divinity in the muck.
February 1, 1999	"Black Sabbatical, Part One" features Black Sabbath Reunion Tour, Rock and Roll Dreams, and Why Roadies Need Viagra! Author visits darkest Philadelphia in search of rock and roll Macs and naked fans.
January 25, 1999	"Reign of Idiots" features Idiot Special! Nazi Librarians, Drunk Hunters, and the Boat Person Who Had No Brain at All! Author gonzos out on demon-purging bozo massacre, free monster included.
January 18, 1999	"Native Plant" features What Belongs Where, My Mac Is NOT a Toaster, and Blinded by Degrees at Chimney Rock. Soul-less hybrids give way as author goes native and finds planted planet.
January 11, 1999	"Mac Wranglin'" features Corral Full o' Macs, Hogtie That Pref File, and Remembering the Mighty Roach Herds of Austin! Heroic author wrangles iMac into submission as favorite Texas engineer defies rabid Apple cultists.
January 4, 1999	"No More Mr. Nice Guy" features 1999! Microsoft Death Rattle, The Invasion of the Blizzard Idiots, and Metaphors from An Art Museum. Trickling sands of time motivate author to jettison junk and tell it like it should be.