From 598b8c3abd5bd2d647cf80a7cf235fa245e9e411 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DTB Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:40:34 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] 2024-06-14 --- homepage | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/homepage b/homepage index 1844314..c30e93c 100755 --- a/homepage +++ b/homepage @@ -525,6 +525,70 @@ pre { /* DRY who? */ } +/blah/2024-06-14.html + +: changing the blah header + +The blog header and footer on this blah were written in a sprint on a stim +binge when I realized each blah page looked pretty empty without them (I think. +Honestly I don't remember too well). The header was: + +ideas with no tangibility; +ideas with irrelevant supports; +ideas without value; +ideas' witlessness; +ideas' witnesses; +ideas- + +and was meant to reflect the site theme at the time which was that each title +was a "shift" of the last title, e.g. + +2022-06-25: Down with the sickness +2022-06-26: Down with the Dickness +2022-06-30: O, posts unwritten +2022-07-06: Duo, most lingual + +It didn't make a lot of sense and was a little corny. The footer, on the other +hand: + +No rights reserved, all rights exercised, rights turned to lefts, left in this +corner of the web. + +was very popular with my friends (whose opinions are the only ones I sort of +care about). This is a spin on a format I read years ago and forgot. It's +vaguely inspired by the xkcd.com footer, which stands now as: + +>xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 +>emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS at a screen resolution of 1024x1. +>Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your +>device from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, +>please leave caps lock on while browsing. + +as (to my memory) it appeared in 2014 when I discovered xkcd (on the tail end +of an Aaron Swartz -> RSS -> readers -> feeds to read rabbit hole I was +required to go down by the collective I was then a part of). The first latest +comic I remember reading was Vodka (#1528, May 2015) which is definitely wrong +because I remember showing my sixth grade teacher xkcd comics (which would have +had to be 2014). Memories, memories, memories. Nostalgia is a spook. + +The IIGS had what, a 65K? If it was upgraded with one of those FPGA accelerator +boards, and someone wrote a performant JS engine for it and ran PCjs on it to +emulate a Pentium II, running an old Linux and using the earliest Netscape, +then set their resolution, that might be possible. I spent a lot of time +thinking about that as a kid. Maybe this is what got me into emulators. + +Multiple friends have quoted my blah footer to me which makes me feel cooler +than I am. One thought about getting it tattooed on themself. Nuts. I don't see +writing as an act of creation so much as an act of observation; I am able to be +very boastful about what I have written for the same reason I often see it as +baby talk drivel (is that how you spell that?) - it has never felt like /my/ +writing, only spewing ideas in my head which is a melting pot of shitty ideas I +find on-line. I have doubt in my ability to /create/ an authentically original +thought. It's an insecurity of mine. + +I'm replacing the header because I want a better one. Footer remains. + + /blah/2024-06-12.html : debugging some bullshit @@ -11446,12 +11510,8 @@ THE WRITER MUST EAT -> patreon.com/trn1ty <- blah! -ideas with no tangibility; -ideas with irrelevant supports; -ideas without value; -ideas' witlessness; -ideas' witnesses; -ideas- +a rust, bytes, drugs, nights, bloody kind of life +get your tetanus shot $!NAVIGATION