Penn's Columns

• Donate My Organs, Cremate My Laptop, May 1, 1997
• I'm Still Trouncing my $9.99 Cribbage Program, July 1, 1997
• We've Got Some Money Comin' Back, July 15, 1997
• Jodie Foster's CONTACT--For Carl?, August 1, 1997
• Watch My Mouth, August 15, 1997
• Flame On!, September 1, 1997
• The Least I Can Do--Really, September 15, 1997
• Listen to Me, I Can't Hear You, October 1, 1997
• Free Celebrity Nudes!, October 15, 1997
• Why Must the Show Go On?, November 1, 1997
• Why People Believe Weird Things, november 15, 1997
• Oh, We Interent Columnists, We're Just Crazy, December 1, 1997
• True Love, January 15, 1998

• What Will Computers be like in 1993?
• An Analogy
• Oh, the Airlines Hate Him

• I'm Sick of Writing about This PC-Computing v7, n11 (Nov, 1994)
• Media Jammin PC-Computing v7, n10 (Oct, 1994)
• alt.fan.gutenberg. PC-Computing v7, n9 (Sept, 1994):352.
• Tolls for thee? PC-Computing v7, n8 (August, 1994):320.
• I'm a virtual star. PC-Computing v7, n7 (July, 1994):312.
• Remember Tonya? PC-Computing v7, n6 (June, 1994):366.
• Did I disable five security measures or six? PC-Computing v7, n5 (May, 1994):306.
• I'll bet it's your damn Thurman unit again! PC-Computing v7, n4 (April, 1994):310.
• Shhh! Be vewy quiet - I'm hunting Luddites. PC-Computing v7, n3 (March, 1994):340.
• Satisfaction - one foot in the grave. (buying new computers less frequently) PC-Computing v7, n2 (Feb, 1994):336.
• Will radio mail really change my life? PC-Computing v7, n1 (Jan, 1994):364.

• Billy Idol: learning to type in cyberspace. PC-Computing v6, n12 (Dec, 1993):506.
• At last, here's the math behind encryption. PC-Computing v6, n11 (Nov, 1993):546.
• Subterranean Clipper chip blues. PC-Computing v6, n10 (Oct, 1993):468.
• Internet: president (at) whitehouse.gov. PC-Computing v6, n9 (Sept, 1993):450.
• Get involved! Send me your ASCII. PC-Computing v6, n8 (August, 1993):356.
• Business class, first class, or faraday cage? (computers on airplanes) PC-Computing v6, n7 (July, 1993):336.
• I Want More Bias--And Less News PC-Computing v6, n6 (June, 1993).
• More bandwidth equals entertainment. PC-Computing v6, n5 (May, 1993):324.
• An apology for last year's trick: we printed a phony ad that got us in a lot of trouble. We're really sorry, swear to God. PC-Computing v6, n4 (April, 1993):332.
• First ever: real info on the back page. PC-Computing v6, n3 (March, 1993):318.
• It's not really stealing, because it's me. PC-Computing v6, n2 (Feb, 1993):412.
• A brief history of time: the column. PC-Computing v6, n1 (Jan, 1993):358.

• Oh, those poor kids of destruction. (Masters of Disaster computer hackers) PC-Computing v5, n12 (Dec, 1992):464.
• Finally - neatness doesn't count. PC-Computing v6, n11 (Nov, 1992):472.
• Mr. Television wants to be Mr. CRT. PC-Computing v5, n10 (Oct, 1992):420.

  The Micro Mephisto columns

• Agrippa--One Shot to Download Dad PC-Computing v5, n9 (Sept, 1992).
• I heart my dog's head. PC-Computing v5, n8 (August, 1992):418.
• I'm not afraid of computer games. PC-Computing v5, n7 (July, 1992):402.
• Virtual reality - it's just very good TV. PC-Computing v5, n6 (June, 1992):446.
• Don't call us, we'll type to you. PC-Computing v5, n5 (May, 1992):438.
• This April Fool's Day - I'm on Your Side PC-Computing v5, n4 (April, 1992) (and the accompanying April Fool's Phone)
• OK, I'm in the pig power structure. PC-Computing v5, n3 (March, 1992):338.
• We're all going to burn in hell. PC-Computing v5, n2 (Feb, 1992):372.
• Which came first, the chicken or the egg? PC-Computing v5, n1 (Jan, 1992):374.

• 'Computer expert' cracks Dead Sea Scrolls. PC-Computing v4, n12 (Dec, 1991):430.
• Hey, hey, new age, get off of my cloud. PC-Computing v4, n11 (Nov, 1991):448.
• The Toaster versus all-gray TV. (Video Toaster image processing system) PC-Computing v4, n10 (Oct, 1991):368.
• The computer takes on pro wrestling... PC-Computing v4, n9 (Sept, 1991):352.
• Nerds unite! Change your prompts; you're already a nerd, so you might as well have a cute prompt. PC-Computing v4, n8 (August, 1991):288.
• I spent an evening with a grain of salt. PC-Computing v4, n7 (July, 1991):282.
• Lizard King meets SideKick Prince. PC-Computing v4, n6 (June, 1991):320.
• Call me middle-age computer crazy. PC-Computing v4, n5 (May, 1991):272.
• Spell-checking will be our savior. PC-Computing v4, n4 (April, 1991):250.
• I can be (and have been) bought. PC-Computing v4, n3 (March, 1991):308.
• Prying eyes in the friendly skies. PC-Computing v4, n2 (Feb, 1991):268.
• This joke could send you to prison. PC-Computing v4, n1 (Jan, 1991):266.

• A thinking machine: soul of comedy. PC-Computing v3, n12 (Dec, 1990):320.
• Go ahead, dominate your pristine PC. PC-Computing v3, n11 (Nov, 1990):372.
• Just run, jump and shoot? Why do I need turtles to do this? (Ultra Software Corp.'s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles computer game) (Software Review)

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