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2024-06-14

: 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.

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No rights reserved, all rights exercised, rights turned to lefts, left in this
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