The Letter N

Narrabean

..had the best fresh fruit market. It was about a mile up the beach, around a slight curve. Passionfruit, starfruit, guava, pinapple, apple, and more...

Navihedron

A spiffy three-dimension navigational schema that offers all sorts of delightful possibilities. Mine (which I used as a vehicle to tell a story about a man named Henry at different points in his life) was made an editor's pick. I'm so proud.

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Nethack

Argh! After more than a decade of successfully avoiding Nethack, I got sucked into the inestimable joy of kicking down doors, killing Xorns, and bribing unicorns. Time. Being. Sucked. Away.

New

What's New in the Alphabet? You have to just guess.

New York City

What a great town. Any type of food any hour of the day, Broadway, museums, life in all its teeming glory, and some really interesting architecture and signage. I have no desire to move there, or live there full time, but there's so many wonderful things to do or see.

Newsradio

This is probably my favorite sit-com of all time: it married low and high, physical and cerebral, and the silly and the sublime. Even when it struggled after the death of Phil Hartman, it was heads and shoulders over the rest of the dreck littering the television landscape. It wasn't afraid to be smart or possibly
obscure or strange. The characters were well-rounded and defined; their oddball actions made sense even as you were laughing out loud. Naturally, NBC tried to kill it with multiple time slots per season, poor promotion and attempts at meddling. It's a miracle Newsradio survived as long as it did.

Night Owl

I'm a night owl by inclination, but have discovered that there's value in getting to work early (i.e. uninterrupted time to get things done). Needless to say, this wreaks havoc with my sleep schedule.

Nils R. Hayden

Also known as my brother, or the 'king'. Has his own fund, The Fund for Nils' Entertainment, for which I am continually getting hit up for. He graduated from UGA, which means I have to hear a lot about the 'Big Dawg.' He thinks the Alphabet Julen should be highly customized to him. I tought him the basics of HTML recently, and I've created a monster.

Northampton, MA

Home of Smith College and located in the Happy Crunchy Valley. Beautiful, crunchy, glossy. Served by Peter Pan, home of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Jonathan Edwards (who ran his grandfather out of town for being too liberal a preacher). There's a Herrell's there, and several really good bookstores, three memorable movie theaters, and - of course - there's the Iron Horse.

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Northern Virginia

My current home, filled with many, many, cookie-cutter suburbs, some great restaurants, some horrible drivers, a strip mall for every 50.8 residents, and a bunch of big governmental buildings (plus an airport) named after Ronald Reagan (with the ironies studiously ignored).

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Norwich

We actually lived in a subdivision named with a Robin Hood theme. Norwich
was a great town, and I'm not just saying that because the city museum
has my ancestor's pickled hand available for perusal. I liked the libraries,
and the surrounding towns, and the uneven streets. I liked fish and chips
in vinegar for lunch, and the sense of being a small town in a big town's
body.