And now it's time for the traditional Paul J. Iutzi Homepage credits. Just a small space on the internet where I take a moment to acknowledge some people and things that made this website possible, for what ever arcane reason I may think they did.

The parents of Paul J. Iutzi, and their parents, and their parents, and so on and so forth back to the first self-replicating molecule that can be reasonably called life. While life in general was a questionable idea, in fact the root cause for all pain and suffering, they do deserve credit for making this possible.

The guy who invented the World Wide Web, whose name escapes me at the moment. Note, no credit at all is to be given to British Telecom, as the idea of patenting hyperlinks is a silly notion at best.

Matt Gruenwald, Terry Pearson, Bonny Brunette, Jim Hood, and the rest of the STV 250 crew, who provided the competition to get the Paul J. Iutzi website off the ground all those years ago (1995-1996).

Factoid: The Stevenson 250 computer lab was the largest computer lab dedicated to writing in the worlds when I worked there during the mid-90s. I have no idea if this is still true, but I doubt it.

Carl Wenning who allowed me the honor of telling stories for a living at the Illinois State University Planetarium. Best job I ever had, and probably ever will have.

Daniel R. Glass, college roommate and long time friend, for many, many things, not the least of which is not tossing me through the thirteenth story window of our Watterson Towers dorm room in the two years we roomed together. But also for wading through they various stories I wrote at the time.

Factoid: Watterson Towers on the Illinois State University campus in Normal, Illinois is the largest dedicated dormatory in the world (there is a taller dormatory in Russia, but they also teach classes in it so it doesn't count). It is also built in the middle of a swamp, so it is sinking about an inch a year.

Michael Jeans for showing me the blesséd light that is Macintosh and introducing me to the Final Fantasy series, BBEdit, and the Top 5 List, among many things.

Jessica Thompson, Wade Bishop, Rich Debarba, and Jen and Chad Wolfe for various things involving and tangental to sheparding 100+ people pretending to be vampires at two in the morning and the International Geophysical Year.

Douglas Adams for shaping much of my sense of humor. I do strongly urge picketing and loud yelling outside of the Newsweek corporate headquarters for leaving him out of the important deaths of 2001.

George Lucas for Star Wars and, to a lesser extent, Indiana Jones. No one does epic Sci-Fi better on film...just wish you'd let someone else write the dialog (yeah, I know, you're going after the stilted feel of the old silent films, but there is a good reason why they don't make those anymore).

The letter H and the number 5.

The guy behind the Final Fantasy games for that sense of wonder that pervades the series (well, VII-X at least). You know, there is so much bad about each one of these, and yet there is that almost magicalness to it that allows me to sit through 124 hours of seventeen year olds acting like fourteen year olds (or just the fact that the heroes are inevitably teenagers).

Factiod: Napoleon's Eygptian campaign can be blamed for both the Egyptian name of many slab-serif fonts and the missing nose of the Great Sphynx.

Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael for being on every list of credits I've ever done (the first one being created back in the 80s for a 4-H computer project).

Dave Ross, Jeremy Kinsell, James R. Williams, and Vince Knuffman for years of traipsing through my version of the Star Wars universe and for helping to pay for a hotel room in Milwaukee where PJI Hopepage ver. 3 was designed.

The Moody Blues and Jethro Tull for some amazing music.

"Uncle" Joe Balzer and actual uncle Harold Taggart for making me the flaming liberal I am today. Also for tons of cool stories to pass on during "Uncle" Paul story time.

The Pugh Charitable Trusts for giving to NPR.

Eugie and Matthew Foster, Nicholas White, Patrick Roberts, Mike Fey for putting up with me and reading the various news clips with "witty" commentary I send out from time to time. Doubly so to Matthew Foster for his creation and running of the Dream Masques game that inspired the ramblings in the Dream Masques Encyclopedae section.

Thanks to all holders of various copyrights used on these pages without permission for realizing I make no money from these pages and thus not suing me into oblivion. Note that no use of anything anywhere on this site is intended to infringe upon previously held copyrights.

Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, and Noam Chomsky for fighting the good fight.

Lucas Como and Richard Olsen for all the work they put into keeping Adeptus Flatlandicus running, giving me something to keep from going insane from boredom here in Bloomington/Normal.

The Steves—Jobs and Wozniak—and anyone else who put blood, sweat, and/or tears into Apple all those years so I could have a machine to create this webpage on and for others to do this actually worthwhile on.

The various folks at Macromedia, Adobe, and Bare Bones for making the software that built various versions of this site. I suppose I should also mention the Netscape division of AOL Time-Warner for Netscape Gold, which built Homepage ver. 2, I think, and the people who made the Pico text editor for ver. 1. Yup, coded that one by hand on the RS6000. Ah, those were the days....

Carl Sagan for billions and billions of things (you saw that coming, didn't you).

Factoid: the red dot in the 7-Up logo represents the eyes of the albino inventor of the soft-drink.

The people who wrote the book for the INS 23 exam that I really need to get back to reading. Wow, time flies when you're writing credits.

And, of course, you for spending time you'll never get back looking at my site.