Welcome, welcome, one and all. This is my world.

No wait! Don't let that scare you off. Really, I'm harmless. Well, at least mostly harmless. Besides, what can I do to you just by you reading my webpage? There. You see? You're perfectly safe...

At this point you may have a few questions. Namely, what does "confusticate" mean, and what in the world is a "fplot"? All in good time, my friend, all in good time. The explanations will appear at the bottom of this page. No, don't start scrolling now. After all, patience is a virtue.

First I'd like to explain myself. Of course I'd also like to my computer to spit out a quarter everytime I hit the keyboard. So maybe I'll just aim for explaining the website. Primarily this website is something to do instead of being bored. When I'm bored, I work on it; when you're bored, you read it to see if I've worked on it. Neat little plan, isn't it? It's also a way for me to share things with all of you (you being the world at large, or at least the internet-enabled portion of it). If we have even the slightest thing in common, you may find something interesting by clicking around on these pages. If we have nothing in common, well then I can't help you.

Wander around, click a few links, read a few words, and hopefully you will find something you like. To read about more about "confusticate" and "fplot", keep reading this page. To skip those explanations and go somewhere entirely different, click here.

confusticate
I don't have an exact definition in front of me (anybody want to send me one?), but I believe it means something really confused and mixed up. Appropriate for the group of people I associate with (yeah, you know who you are...) Anyway, confusticate.com is the domain name owned by my boyfriend Jeremy, and he has kindly provided a home for my websites under it. (Thanks go out to Matt for being the first to send me a definition of confusticate; check it out for a more formal definition.)

fplot
Once upon a time (around 1998), in a land far, far away (Williamsburg VA), there lived a young lady, who was just finishing her last years of schooling. As one of her final lessons, she was learning the ways of Scientific Computing. One task required to complete this course involved using a tool called MATLAB to create something called cubic b-splines. The magical command to complete this task was "fplot". Also in this land of Williamsburg lived a young man. A programmer by trade, this young man also possessed certain jester-like qualities. Upon witnessing the magical command, he broke into a fit of hysterics, chanting "fplot, fplot, fplot" as he danced about. At this, the lady, already frustrated by her difficulties with her task, promptly chastised the young man with what shall henceforth be known as "the Look". The young man was temporarily banished from the house of schooling as a result. The moral of the story: Never laugh at another person's frustration, especially when it's your girlfriend and she really wants to get her homework done.