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!

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	1998 ARCHIVE
Dec. 28, 1998	"It's A Hit!" features a Post-Road Trip Special: Cyberspace Yuletide, Scrooge On the Run, and Dastardly Doings in Dubuque. PowerBooks and iMacs in strange places bring holiday cheer and a promise of more good things to come.
Dec. 21, 1998	"Iowa Noch Einmal!" features Back to Iowa! PowerBook on the Prairie, Arctic Memories, and Mummies in Des Moines. Author and wife brave Alberta Clipper on annual holiday road trip to the frozen heartland.
Dec. 14, 1998	"Johnny Internet: Missing Links?" New! The latest chapter in our saga features Bad Mental Hygiene, Maseratis in the Mountains, and How to Live Longer and Have More Sex. Johnny boots up as phantoms go offline!
Dec. 7, 1998	"Hot RAM Ramble" features a Sneak Attack Special! December Heat Wave, Good Ole Austin, and RAM Ranching West 'o the Pecos. Global warming and too much memory send author round the Bend, Texas-style.
Nov. 30, 1998	"Stumps on the Beach" features an Assateague Thanksgiving: Islands That Move, Birds That Do Everything, and Five Christmas PCs That Don't Work. Turkey-free is the way to be as author hits the dunes.
Nov. 23, 1998	"Johnny Internet: Chapter Three" (The Last in a Series?) features Gazing at the Gorge, Internet Jobs, and a Blessing from the Dentist. Johnny goes to the mountains and gets zapped on way to writing the news.
Nov. 16, 1998	"Johnny Internet: Chapter Two" features the Second in a Special Series! Cat Skull Fever, Zoofloovia '96, and Big Medicine in the Kitchen. Author commits art and is guided by spirits with VISA cards.
Nov. 9, 1998	"Johnny Internet: Chapter One" features the First in a Special Series! Aphid Races, Zoo Pilots, and the Amazing Origin of Johnny Internet. Author reveals all in stunning exposé and gets lost in cyberspace with only 15 MHz!
Nov. 2, 1998	"Christ-o-ween? Windows 2000??" features Solar (Not Satanic), Get Out of My Holiday Please, and Whats the Deal with Windows NT? Wicca-weary wackos waste words while Windows waits. . .and why we'll worry!
Oct. 26, 1998	"MacHippies and Other Wonders" features Email Insight, What Really Happened and Why It's Cool, and How to Scare Your Fathers. John and Yoko selling Macs? Brilliant iMac paradox?? Vindication of the Sixties??? Woo-hoo!
Oct. 19, 1998	"I Do Not Mind" features Optimizing Everything, or Doing What You Like and To Hell With the Consequences! Love messes with author's head and leaves him helpless as assimilation proceeds apace.
Oc. 12, 1998	"El Comandante Returns!" features our exclusive Comandante Karma Interview, with Stupid White Men, Accidental CyberDog, and the Return of the Lost Ancestors." Mysterious web entity arrives with his own special brand of chaos for R-rated session!
Oct. 5, 1998	"What a Gig!" features Free Speech and Responsibility, Great Airport Slander Revisited, and Why Even Columnists Get the Blues. How to get on the Internet and write good, and why the biggest targets are the best.
Sept. 28, 1998	"The Big Burn". Special Bonfire Edition features Bag of Weasels, Windows Idiocy, More Cheap Homes on the Prairie, and What to Cut. There's a reason you want to torch that pile, and our intrepid columnist shows why fire is your friend.
Sept. 21, 1998	"Fired Up!" features iMac Verdict, Flying with Weights (and Advertising), and Goosed from Stirring the Big Pot. Author gives iMac, Apple, AirBus, and Denver Airport the attention they deserve: take cover and read at own risk!
Sept. 14, 1998	"The Geeks Don't Get It" features Flying Sardine Cans, Honey-Mustard Hell, and Hanging Out in Tucson with Mother's iMac. Author flies to Arizona (somehow) and finds true computer love, no steenking floppies required!
Sept. 7, 1998	"Kayak-Cam Cruise". Labor Day Special! New QuickCam Capers, Floating Flybait, and Country Living Beside the Megalopolis. Author and PowerBook 540c hit the high seas for QuickCam shots to thrill and amaze. . .
Aug. 31, 1998	"Lost and Disconnected" features Explaining the Human Interface, Billionaire on the Stand, and Why the Farmers Have No Trees. Eco-idiots run amuck and empires totter on the brink as author fights for Macs and the planet.
Aug. 24, 1998	"Follow the Fun" features No Time Like the Present, Composting Your PowerBook, and How to Be Happy and Live Different. A handy one-step guide for just about everything. Bundled with QuickCam capers and free parables!
Aug. 17, 1998	"Abducted by iMacs" features Alien Conspiracy Exposed, West Texas UFO's, and Help, the iMacs Have Taken My Mom! Prairie pod-cars seed iMac invasion amidst the buffalo skulls, and where is YOUR mother tonight?
Aug. 10, 1998	"The Unimagined" features Multi-level Mac Trip, West Virginia Ups and Downs, and Granny's Father's Saddlebags. Birthday boy rides PowerBook on ancestral quest and finds meaning in the mystery.
Aug. 3, 1998	"Portable Thrills"features So Much to Do (So Little Time), Bad Pre-colonial PR, and Floppies as Survival Food. Author goes mad with PowerBook possibilities, plans sea cruise and portable life. Stay tuned!
July 27, 1998	"Demon-Catcher"features Road-Trip Roundup w/ Free Therapy, How to Act Different and Get Stuff, and Where's the Damn Outlet? Road warrior does good and goes beserk, but a good time is had by all.
July 20, 1998	"The Mac That Wasn’t"features On the Road! High-Speed Heartland Highjinks, PowerBook Madness, and Secrets of the Geeks. Author learns you get what you pay for as he roams the prairie to seek relief.
July 13, 1998	"iMacs and Apple Pie"features Gold-Plated Idiot, Why Being "Good" Is Bad, Mothers Want iMacs, and Hey, Where's My Slice? A valuable lesson in how not to become roadkill on the highway of life, plus a free real-life pun!
July 6, 1998	"Natural Wonders"features Where's the Damn Cat, How Do You Want to Die Today, and the PowerBook That Wouldn't Quit. Microsoft tells the truth as stunned author seeks solace in SCSI madness with the Amazing Immortal PowerBook.

June 29, 1998	"Picking the Moment"features Low-Level Lawn Formatting, PowerBook Madness, and A Lesson From John Deere. Why take care of business when you can dream? Self-absorbed web jockey falls prey to laptop lust and wavers on the edge.
June 22, 1998	"Solstice Sayonara"features Heat-Crazed Englishmen, Sending Mary Off, What I Did, and Guess Why Mom's Calling from Arizona. Summer begins with Mary in Maine as humidity-maddened author vows to Think Simple next time.
June 15, 1998	"Loose Ends" features PowerMac Angst, Snatching Mary's Mac, and Take My Life But Leave Me My Computer! Weird crashes and juggling CPUs leave truck-drivin' man without an interface to call his own.
June 8, 1998	"Blind Leading the Blind" features Teacher Is a Dope, Mary Gets RAM, Just What ARE All Those Things, and What Women Like. Octogenarian learns safe way to pull the plug as author changes gears and gets smart (we hope).
June 1, 1998	"I Love This Stuff" features Verboten at Parties, Aunt Mary Marches On, and What's That Lying on My Information Highway? Digital dreams keep the lessons coming as author revisits where the coyotes and the antelope play.
May 26, 1998	"Oh My!" features Warm Buicks in the Sun, One Cool Mac, Mary Meets Cyberspace, and How'd You Do That, Anyway? Author's 85-year-old aunt goes from ignorance to e-mail in one short week with four-year-old Mac!
May 18, 1998	"Mary's Mac 1.0" features PC Angst, Cool Human Tricks, A Gift from Japan, and My, What a Nice Little Computer You Are! Author matches PowerMac with 85-year-old newbie and lives to tell the tale (so far). . .
May 11, 1998	"Strong and Simple" features Shoes Make the Man, iMacs Rule, Bad Interface Blues, and How to Fix Just About Everything. Parable of simplicity reveals why peanut-butter and chocolate taste better on a Mac.
May 4, 1998	"Bee-YAWL-tinnuh" features Techno-Frenzy, Big White Rabbit, Bronze Age Bacchanal Revisited, and E-Mail from the Head Druid. Magic bunny shows clueless author how to keep the beat as CEO-shaman exhorts Mac masses to go forth and multiply.
April 27, 1998	"CrashGate '98" features God Loves Comedy, Web Wimps, Trouser Browser, and Don't Worry, the Air Force Uses Windows. Current events cause maddened clown to seek solace in paranoid art-rant. Do try this at home!
April 20, 1998	"Earth Day Auguries" features Yips But No Yappy-Dogs, Native Wisdom, and What Pigs Really Want From Us. Attempts to reason ring-neck's return brings relevance from the Bitterroots and visions of porcine paradise.
April 13, 1998	"Epilogue: Still Dead" features Money Can't Buy Them Love, He's a Heavy (He's My Brother), and Heroes Bustin' Out All Over. Why you can't believe everything you read and how to win big anyway.
April 6, 1998	"Redmond Requiem" features Death in the Daffodils, Windows Masochists, Angry Gods, and Abusing the Elderly for Fun and Profit. Giant rots at the head and mutiny grows while the world pays a price, but not for long.
Mar. 30, 1998	"Crossing Over" features Ain't It Grand, Borg Mantras for PC Refrigerators, and Yow! Are We Evangelizing Yet? E-mail ecstasy on the way to Paradise distracts cuz from sinking platform, but help is on the way!
Mar. 23, 1998	"I Love You, Man!" features I Married a Mac, Crimes Against Nature, Those Steenking PCs, and When to Walk Away From It All. Take an exciting trip over the edge with this hopelessly biased, pro-Mac, pro-planet song of praise, free rant included.
Mar. 16, 1998	"Speed Thrills" features Freeway Fangios, the Mysterious Pink Flash, Dead-Tree Epiphany, and Tossing Out a Tow-Rope to Tomorrow. Suburban speedsters expand the envelope and dead-tree edition rides into the sunset, as author grabs mouse and steps on the gas.
Mar. 9, 1998	"Power Humans" features Deja Plumber, Dr. Mac, Greedheads Revisited, and How to Power Up and Be Yo'self. Rants and revelation while waiting for water leave everyone comfy and clean-smelling after all.
Mar. 2, 1998	"Bailing Out" features Solar Eclipse, ISP Blues, Cheap House on the Prairie, and Learning From Swans. Internet dies and author walks, waiting for wisdom as demons swallow the sun.
Feb. 23, 1998	"Two-Edged Sword" features Dictionary Love, Search Engine Salvation, Dead Fish, and Why the Mountains Are Calling. Dual epiphanies wreck poultry industry and lead a lady to the light as computers free mankind and help kill a college.
Feb. 16, 1998	"Interview: Comandante Karma" features Comandante Karma, Mexican Hackers, Senator Hatch, and No Mo' Mummies. Exclusive Farr Site interview with Web provocateur shows dangerous consequences of online journalism as camera crunches and lawyers cock their ears.
Feb. 9, 1998	"Virtual New Mexico" features Chile Lights, Warrior Rabbit, and Overcoming True Peril in the Wilds of Delmarva. Organic virtual reality, willpower, and the World Wide Web make a heady, empowering brew.
Feb. 2, 1998	"Vision Quest" features Web-Cam Satori, Strange Artifacts, and How Mouse Rattle, MD Got Its Name. Author rides video highway from High Plains to outer space and back, finds mystery object and rodent riddle.
Jan. 26, 1998	"Can't Keep a Good World Down" features Ghost in the Night, Floating Free, and Naked Scandinavian Grandmothers. Inebriated coot precipitates existential rant as web jockey reaches for Sauza and shot glasses.
Jan. 19, 1998	"Don't Fence Me In!" features How We Got Radios, Viva Web Frenzy, and Why You Can't Buy a Ticket to Paradise. Amazing parallels between early days of radio and the Web prompts author to exhort the masses!
Jan. 12, 1998	"Beginning of the End?" features the Pony Express, Mark Twain, the Age of Aquarius, and What to Feed a Dinosaur. Technology changes the way people visualize their world as the whole process gets a cosmic boost.
Jan. 5, 1998	"Cyber-Hype in the Heartland" features Xmas in Iowa, Cool Grannies, and How to Drive Really Fast Without a Speedometer. A holiday road trip to the Midwest finds our hero searching for signs of computer life in the strangest places.