2024-06-14

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+/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;
+a rust, bytes, drugs, nights, bloody kind of life
-ideas with irrelevant supports;
+get your tetanus shot
-ideas without value;
-ideas' witlessness;
-ideas' witnesses;
-ideas-
 
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