hello world (again and again)

two and a half years later

process meta

written on 2023-01-15

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it's 1:07 AM central time right now (maybe i should add a place to see time of start and time of publish), i'm sitting on my bed in fuzzy pj's with my broken laptop propped up on an office chair. my eyes feel heavy (half sleepy/half edible), i feel very moved to write an entry right now. i was thinking about some cool new features for my blog that i would like to implement one day. i am very obsessed with data (wonder if there's a better, cooler, more accurate, and more beautiful word to use) and want to see some things like

• a little box for you to note the time and weather where you are locally, and then save that information for the next visitor of the page
• oh maybe the last tab you had open as well. wouldn't that be so silly
• (adapting an idea i had for a static site before) sticker comments that can stick onto the page. "xyz was here 01/15/2023" something like that! comments that don't look like comments
• different ways to show images that aren't inline
• radio station built in
• a little page where you can see what movies i'm trying to decide to watch tonight
• strava (not actually)
• different ways to show image metadata that aren't hidden
• maxing out all the metadata a blog entry can hold (who wrote this, where were they, what were they feeling, did their back hurt, did they have company, what does it smell like over there etc.) (relatedly, i think maxing out the data you can get from something is such a funny idea)
• better image hosting system maybe, and generally untethering myself from "cloud services"
• a visual novel/minigame that lives in the footnotes of a blog entry
• breadcrumbs
• next/previous links
• having open/close hours built in

as of writing this there's a pretty broken upload of this blog in its pristine, original condition circa summer 2020, the bits are all there (more or less) but by the time you might be reading this, it's been long gone, maybe it's in a data center cache somewhere still but it will be jettisonned one day. i think the person i was in 2020 is also living in a little cache in my being somwehere still as well, but i'm holding on to them and trying not to be so dismissive. whoops! i meant to say i uploaded everything i had up until writing this to desirepath.neocities.org, and so i mean as of publishing this that upload of this blog from 2020 doesn't really exist online anymore.

[the origin of desirepath.neocities.org]

A desire path (often referred to as a desire line in transportation planning), also known as a game trail, social trail, fishermen trail, herd path, cow path, elephant path, goat track, pig trail, use trail and bootleg trail, is an unplanned small trail created as a consequence of mechanical erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or the most easily navigated route between an origin and destination, and the width and severity of its surface erosion are often indicators of the traffic level it receives.

--- From the Wikipedia entry on desire paths

sometimes i do something like not download a specific .pdf to save on my computer but instead trace down the specific blog the specific entry the specific paragraph the specific hyperlink from memory to find this obscure excerpt of a .pdf that i had been wanting to read or reread. sometimes i use chat search to look up reference words around a funny memory i have or a silly meme or a lovely text or another .pdf i had been looking for and then use those anchors to look above and below and all around, move a little forward or back for what i'm wanting to see. and i might so easily get distracted. what a funny type of cartography...