Howdy!

This is Rick Morneau's boring home page

I'm working on a fascinating project to design a language that is especially suited for use as an interlingua in machine translation. If you are interested in the lexical semantics of natural language, the formal design of artificial languages, or the use of computers to translate automatically between languages, then check out my comprehensive monograph Lexical Semantics. If you are mostly interested in the fun aspects of language construction, there are also several other, much shorter essays available.

Far Horizons is another play-by-email strategy game that I started designing several years ago, and that has undergone several revisions. In this game, each player plays the role of an intelligent species that can build starships, explore the galaxy, start new colonies, meet other species, go to war, and so on. Far Horizons is a rich and realistic simulation, and the rules are considerably longer and more complex than most similar games. A typical game can last anywhere from 6 months to a year. Far Horizons is not an open-ended game, so you may not start a new species at any time.

I am not currently running a Far Horizons game, and I have no plans to do so in the foreseeable future. However, if you would like to run your own game, a complete source code distribution (written in ANSI C and including the rules) is also available here . [Netscape users should make sure that their preferences are correctly set to automatically download ".gz" files, otherwise the download will not work properly.]