Welcome to my vanity page. My name is Thomas R. Mazanec, and I will
be happy to show you this little peek into my (aaahhhh!) mind.
I was born March 5, 1958, in Cleveland, Ohio. I attended St. Wenceslaus Church and school in my hometown of Maple Heights, Ohio, and High School at St. Peter of Chanel in Bedford, Ohio. I earned a B.S. degree in Astronomy from Case Western Reserve University in 1980 and a second B.S. in Computer and Information Science from Cleveland State University in Dec 1983 (I had realized that I was not quite up to handling the Math a professional astronomer uses). I then followed the usual Asperger's scenario of losing job after job, including two government jobs and a volunteer job, until God sent me to my current employeer part time in 1992 and full time in 2001...
Brendan Manor, a
group home in Garfield Heights. I am the second shift staff manager,
and do cleaning, errands, medication assistance, screening visitors, inventory control, facility checking, handling emergencies and other duties as assigned. I have
dabbled in a great number of hobbies...the more unusual, the better
(think Art Bell). Oldies music, science fiction and surfing the web
are the big three, others have ranged from model rocketry to
UFOlogy to spy number stations on shortwave to "anthropomorphic" and
"transformation" stories. I am a member of
Sts. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church, and my wish is to make the world a little
better place because I was here.
Brittany Greatbear, the artist responsible for the radically cool
web comic strip Room For One More,
has done me the honor of introducing a character in her strip
which I suggested to her. Ellipses the mongoose is scheduled
to debut in strip number 309. THANK YOU, Brittany!
Apr 2003
I have updated my "Smash Flops" page and my Hotlist.
Aug 2003
"Welcome to Saturday Morning" is the latest and longest of my
writing projects, a muliple part serial I will be sporadically
adding to, depending on how Real Life (TM) treats me, of course.
I am taking part in an online project at the Alternate History
Discussion Forum. Mosaic Timelines Earth takes pieces of different
historical timeline alternate Earths and puts them together
in a crazy quilt world. The central part of "Brasil" from
my first bit of fiction "Aesop" is one such piece, updated to 2003.
For more detail on the background see
The Central European CrisisA Lost PieceHawaii TimeRussia LostThe Dome CrisisThe Dome War
Oct 2003
Scott Teel has done me the honor of creating several tank designs from
the universe of my Aesop background. See his posting on the Alternate
History Discussion Forum at Mosaic Timelines Earth
dated Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 07:44 pm
and at Mosaic Earth Part 2 dated Friday, October 24, 2003 - 02:04 pm.
BTW, I have added a favorites icon to my site. It is based on the
symbol radical aesops and mammaloids use...a stick figure of a tailed
anthropomorphic animal.
Nov 2003
I have begun a page where I irregularly put random Opinions and
observations which are too short for their own page...kind of like a
blog but not so frequently updated and not commentable. You can see it here.
Also, I have updated my hotlist.
Jan 2004
I have added a special mentions area to my hotlist.
Apr 2004
I have decided to take up the hobby of rock tumbling.
If I do well, I might get a digital camera and post
some photos of my product!
Apr 2005
Due to my father entering a nursing home, I have
moved from my lifelong home in Maple Heights
to an apartment in Garfield Heights.
Sep 2005
My father passed away due to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's,
and the C. diff germ. Please pray for his soul.
Feb 2006
I have updated my "blog".
Apr 2006
The French timelines I refer to in A Child's Guide to
Inter-timeline Travel are based on the thread:
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and the Mithran ones are based on this thread:
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Also, I have updated my page on Napster.
In addition, a certain person has asked me to remove his name from one of my pages.
He contributed something he no longer wants on the same page as his name.
May 2006
I have updated my Hotlist
Jun 2006
I updated my Hotlist again, as well as my Smash Flops page.
Jul 2006
Based on further research and communication with my psychiatrist,
I updated my Asperger's page.
Aug 2006
My mission child, Victor Alejandro SabillonJimenez, has been dropped
from the program due to his family's financial situation undergoing
significant improvement. I will devote the money to supporting
Brendan Manor and a support group for Asperger's I am trying to start.
It will meet 1PM the second Saturday of the month, at Saint Wenceslaus
Church at 17825 Libby Road in Maple Heights in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
Call 216-663-8023 for further information.
Also, I have updated my Smash Flops page.
Mar 2007
My Asperger's support group is discontinued for lack of interest.
Also, I have added to my blog.
Apr 2007
I have updated my Hotlist.
Also, years ago I contributed lyrics to the Lyrics World website. Some of them were
rather "rough". I figured people would find the pages on Altavista (it was that long ago)
and email me the corrections, or send them into Lyrics World. It worked for awhile.
Paulo Filho of Brazil (the owner) assured me the site was backed up and would be maintained.
I figured if he died, the payments for the site would stop and it would go offline.
Then he vanished, but the website remains. I have received corrections over the years.
I only have the last couple years of my email, so I have lost some of them. But I have
collected the ones I can find, and am putting them on a page. If you know others,
please email them to me and I will include them. BTW, I know "Daydream Believer"'s banter
is supposed to be "Just because I am short." It sounds like "Just because I am a sure
winner." to me, and that is what I put. Also. I had an email long ago that my misheard
line in "House on Pooh Corner" was "Under branches lit up by the moon."
To find my lyrics, google "Tom Mazanec to humans" which was my old signature line.
See Lyrics Corrections.
Green footprints that glow in the dark
I have been both a believer and a skeptic about UFOs in my life.
The one thing I am sure of is that they are the biggest mystery
of our time.
Big things come in small packages
I believe molecular nanotechnology can transform the world
in the 21st Century more than the previous 20 put together.
Scratching on the door of tomorrow
Someone once said history is a race between education and catastrophe.
It is starting to look like the 21st Century will be the home stretch.
Seems like a photo finish to me...
Special Mentions
The best website for a science fiction fan
(and I certainly qualify for that description)
is Orion's Arm. Visit and get a
glimpse of what the galaxy might be like in 12,569 AD.
And people, I have recently sponsored a mission child,
a boy in Honduras. For less than the cost of a paperback
book every week, I am helping to make his life more hopeful.
If you are Catholic, please go to the Google
link and choose the organization which fits
your desire to help others. If you are not Catholic,
please research to find an organization which meets
your beliefs. Let's make the planet Earth a
better place on which to live.
Finally, an excellent source of TV and movie information is IMDB.
Please allow me to thank those who helped with my website: