Ford, Paul Edmund

Photo © 2002 Christa Neu.

Where He Come From

From the womb with no desire to leave whatsoever, to middle-class (with the hours spent watching What's Happening approaching one over zero) West Chester, Pennsylvania, (patrilineal Irish, matrilineal Swedish, French, German, English, etc(we got around, mostly on horseback). Then to Milton Hershey School[Hershey] with my orphan brethren, then to Alfred University[Alfred] in the Godforsaken sticks, then to Jersey City, for Christ's Sake, then to Brooklyn, which is (hooray!) home.

Events Related To Ford, Paul Edmund

1974 Aug 11 Paul Ford born.
Oct 15 Paul Ford's head begins to spin wildly, and he spits out a vile mixture of green fluid and small machine parts.
Paul Ford's mother is very upset.
1981 Aug 14 Men came to the house in tinfoil clothing, and asked Paul Ford,Wilma Ford, and Frank Ford to leave for a while.»
1985 Aug 14 Paul Ford saw a man in a moon suit entirely engulfed in flames, like a sun: the flames rose two feet over his head, and poured from his fingertips. He scorched the dry ground where he walked.»
2001 Jan 5 Because every boy needs a hobby, Paul Ford created the Ftrain Sitekit to explore the ways narrative structures and graph data structures overlap. »
2003 Jul 14 Paul Ford visited the dentist in morbid humor, called his brother, and contemplated quantum physics.»
Jul 19 Paul Ford refactored The Ftrain Sitekit code for readibility.»
Jul 20 In a fit of pretentious pique, Paul Ford coins the term Graph Narrative because he can't stand the word “Weblog” any more.»
Aug 3 Paul Ford sat below chandeliers—6 of them at least—made of interlocked antlers. »
Aug 9 Ford, Paul Edmund stumbles upon a condiment war in downtown Brooklyn.»
Aug 11 Ford, Paul Edmund became depressed concerning the The Condiment War.»

Facts Related To Ford, Paul Edmund

Paul Ford is dashingly handsome when you're drunk.
Paul Ford has blue eyes and can see right through your skull.

Lies About Ford, Paul Edmund

Paul Ford can kill people using a magical biscuit.
Paul Ford can lift a car with his mouth.

Links Related To Ford, Paul Edmund

2003 Aug 7 All Things Considered
All Things Considered is a nightly radio program that mixes ”news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features,” broadcast in The United States of America. From time to time, they broadcast commentaries by Paul Ford.»
Web Standards
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»
Aug 12 Minding the Planet
The weblog of Nova Spivack, entrepreneur, Semantic Web thinker and re-thinker, and occasional employer of Paul Ford.»
Sep 15 A Theory of Time
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»
Be Proud of Guilty Pleasures
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»
Nov 25 Decoding the Money Puzzle
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»
2004 Jan 7 New York Stories
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»
Apr 8 Age of X
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»
Tilting for iTunes
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»
Early Periodicals Go Online
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»
Apr 19 Obsolescence: the Killer App
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»
2007 Jan 10 Memory and the Virtual World
A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for NPR's All Things Considered.»

Proverbs Related To Ford, Paul Edmund

Be happy while you live, for you're a long time dead.


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There is a Facebook group.

And six-words-only Twitter posts.

See also: Gary Benchley, Rock Star, a novel; Harper's Magazine; NPR's All Things Considered; The Morning News.

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