News:

September 25, 2001

Future here.
If you bookmarked this site through it's IP address, you'll notice it has changed. Greetings. My name is David Ramsay (a.k.a. Citizen Dave), and I will be taking care of this site until Kurtis says otherwise. Hopefully this transition was seamless, all of the links work and I can carry on this site's wonderful tradition. Your other bookmarks should still work since this is pretty much a mirror of the original. If you catch something I didn't, please let me know. Thank you and enjoy.

New links.
Kurtis added his last batch of Links on September 21, 2001.

Reviews and letters.
I have quite a few letters, stories and review submissions, going back to June/July. I will be getting in touch with you in the next few weeks and should have them posted in October. Thank you for your patience.

"This will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil. But good will prevail."
"Freedom and democracy are under attack." "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them"
- George W. Bush, President

"God may show you mercy, we will not."
- Sen. Jon McCain, R-Ariz

"The enemies of America have always underestimated us. What they perceive as weakness is what gives America strength."
- Nick Smith, R-Texas

"In righteousness, the United States government will hunt down to the ends of the earth the assassins of our innocent kin and we will strike back."
- Greg Ganske, R-Iowa

"We literally and figuratively stand shoulder to shoulder in our appreciation of the job ahead. It is to help the victims, to care for the families and to punish those responsible."
- Tom Daschle, Senate Majority Leader

September 10, 2001

Poll gone!
Well, although I have no idea why anyone would want to, someone hacked my site this weekend. The only apparent damage was a new pop-up box and the poll. Both contained Spanish text, which I cannot read. Until I can have the damage to the poll files determined, it will be removed. As soon as things are straightened out, I will repost it.

New links.
Over the last couple of weeks, I have added over 100 new links, and I will be adding more over the next week. This is not as much updating as I would like to do to the site, but it is what I can manage for now.

Future of sight.
I have been in negotiations with the owner of another sci-fi site to take over Sci-Firearms and the M41-A Pulse Rifle Resource until conditions make it possible for me to take it over and update it in a timely manner again. This should be resolved in the next two weeks or so. Information will be posted here as soon as that happens.

July 16, 2001

Joel Lee, if you're out there, please e-mail me. I lost your e-mail address, and need to speak to you.

I have had two offers so far to take over this site and the M41-A Pulse Rifle Resource. As soon as a decision is made, I will post more information here.

July 02, 2001

If you have been to the site lately, you'll notice there haven't been any updates for about a month now. The reason for this is that I live in Houston, Texas, which was recently devastated by Tropical Storm Allison. Along with about 20,000 other residents of this city, my home was flooded. Although I did not get it as bad as many others, it was bad enough. The computer was not lost to rising water, but most of my furniture and a lot of personal items were. All of the flooring, both carpeting and tile, as well as a lot of the sheetrock and insulation have had to come out, and when I am not at work, I am at home doing that. All of this has taken considerably longer than was expected. I hope to be finished enough to set the computer back up this weekend. If you have e-mailed me, and not heard back, I will be responding to as many e-mails as possible as soon as everything is up and running again.

This information is not offered up as a request for pity, but as an explanation as to the lack of change on either Sci-Firearms.com or the M41-A Pulse Rifle Resource.

As some of you know, I do computer animation for a living. I am currently doing a lot of industrial stuff, mostly oilfield illustration. I hope this to not be the case for my entire career. If you are in my profession, there is an annual convention you should attend called SIGGRAPH. It is a showcase for the latest technology available to those doing computer animation as well as their work. It is also a great place to go job hunting. The 2002 convention will be held in July in San Antonio, Texas, and I had every intention of attending. Alas, one of the most devastating losses I suffered during the flooding was my entire art portfolio. This included everything I have ever drawn, including 2 years work from the Art Institute of Houston, and felt worth keeping. It was stored in a climate controlled storage locker with an alarm at a local storage depot. However, neither of these things prevented them flooding, and all was lost. I am still unsure as to what, if anything, of my computer-based work was lost as I have not located some of my storage media yet.

The reason I mention all this is to lead into a rather large announcement.

Sci-Firearms.com and the M41-A Pulse Rifle Resource are up on the chopping block. What little free time I have for the next year is going to be spent trying to create an entirely new portfolio of work to show at the next SIGGRAPH, and that has to take priority over everything else. Sci-Firearms and the PRR have been completely my doing, both in time and money, and I no longer have either of those. I also do not believe in leaving a dead, non-updated, website up indefinitely. Renewal for the URL is due by August 22, and I will leave everything online until then.

I would very much like to see someone take over these sites, and am willing to hand over all materials to the correct individual willing to do so. I will also be willing to make occasional content contributions, time permitting. I AM NOT TRYING TO SELL A URL! There are few things in life that irritate me more than those who start a site, and try to sell a $72 url registration for $100,000. The only thing anyone would need to do monetarily is to take over the registration and hosting fees. The sites are currently hosted through a company called Everyone's Internet that only charges $10 a month. They have been very dependable, and I highly recommend them if you don't already have one.

If you feel that you would like to take over this responsibility, please let me know, and we can discuss it. If you have information about your products or services posted on the sites, and are worried how this might affect you, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you all for you support.