Miscellaneous Writings of Doctor Cornelius
(With Recommended Links)
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series
In Progress: Comments on Half-Blood Prince
Charlie Weasley and the Quest for the True Canon (3/29/04; also posted on LJ)
World Book Day Chat Commentary (3/29/04; also posted on LJ)
Initial Thoughts on OotP (LJ entry 6/29/03)
Momentum and Balance in the HP Books (LJ entry 2/22/03; to be revised post-OotP)
My fanfic (mostly also at SQ Flourish & Blotts) JKR Quote Collection (at Gringotts SQ) (also here with minor revisions)
Sorting Hat quiz (version 1.3)
Recommended News Site: The Leaky Cauldron
Recommended Fan Site: The Sugar Quill
J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Notebook Scribblings on my First Viewing of RotK (LJ entry 12/20/03)
Further Thoughts on the RotK Movie (LJ entry 12/21/03)
Tolkien on Fairy Stories (LJ entry 3/17/03)
Literary Momentum in LotR (LJ entry 2/17/03)
Recommended News Site: The One Ring
Other Literature
C.S. Lewis and the 'Subliminal' Message (LJ entry 1/22/03)
Philosophy & Religion
Guide to Evangelical Christianity (LJ entry 1/11/04)
Morals, Ethics, and Public Discourse (LJ entry 1/14/04)
Language & Society
The Definition Fallacy (LJ entry 2/3/03)
The Doc's English (LJ entry 8/16/03)
Books, Television, Football, and Being a Moral Fan (LJ entry 3/4/03)
'Moral' vs. 'Moralistic' (LJ entry 1/19/03)
Classical Music
On Being a Retro-Classicist (LJ entry 1/30/03 #1)
The Moral Obligation to be Artistically Appreciative? (LJ entry 1/30/03 #2)
Comments on Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364 (Note: Scroll down on the page to the Mozart section. I wrote this [under my Muggle name, of course] for the now-defunct Classical Hub website several years ago. Thankfully, the Heights Chamber Orchestra from somewhere near Cleveland borrowed my comments for their program notes and posted it on their website. It appears to be only a part of what I actually wrote, but with Classical Hub long since out of business, I don't appear to have any other source for the original.)
Math & Statistics
Probability, Statistics, and the Meaning of 'Mean' (LJ entry 1/31/03)
The Charlemagne Theory (LJ entry 2/27/03)
Baseball and Other Sports
How Sure is a 'Sure Thing'? (Guest article for BP, written under my Muggle name; incidentally, further evidence since this was written has moderated my conclusions somewhat, although I think the basic premise still stands) Baseball, Statistics, and the 2003 World Series (LJ entry 11/16/03)
Recommended Analysis Site: Baseball Prospectus
The Commercial Aviation Industry
What I Do For A Living: Boeing 7E7
Seattle P-I Interview with 7E7 Airplane Systems manager
My comments on that article (how it relates to my everyday work)
Recommended Information Site: Airsafe.com
Guest Book