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Wrap-up<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really do need to make an effort to go back through old entries various places, and consolidate them here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned yesterday that I was looking for inspiration from the past. I’d glanced at something from 11\/29\/2011, but didn’t have it anywhere. It was on OD, but what I wasn’t the longish survey I’d seen at first glance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I didn’t have it here<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I do<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been pretty good about moving things around, but with multiple CMSes, etc., I have a lot of what I’d done in places I really can’t access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stuff from OD before it went away for the first time I had in ASCII exports spread far-and-wide. Finding things in there is easy enough — ^F (MM\/DD) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did lose all of the formatting, but I can’t be too upset about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I understand that the amazement about your MySpace page was the cool embedded drawing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe you said something incredible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More likely, however, you were putting up something that looked cool, and distracted people from trying to punch the monkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Know Your Meme is failing me on that one. Younger people probably aren’t familiar with the sorts of stupid ads that’d pop up when you were surfing the Information Superhighway <\/em>back in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever you’d cranked out could be obscured by something annoying put there to distract you into giving away money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I, on the other hand, tended to use HTML tricks to obscure content. I never do that anymore<\/s> stopped doing that sort of thing. Or did I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, for the most part the content persists in spite of the efforts to hide or delete it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can strip things away, and get back to what came out. Since it’s coming form a person, you start in with things like Chomsky’s generative grammar<\/a>. (Which I’ve seen other langoustines describe as “creationist.”) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point, however, something comes out. It’s saved somewhere. Once the buffer is written, the effort it takes to remove it is pretty steep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything Gets deleted eventually.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you have to work at it to make that happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether or not you really want to throw things away is another story, altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There aren’t a lot of people who’ll want to read my shit. In fact, I<\/strong> don’t want to read my shit a lot of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s there. It might be spread far and wide, but I can wrangle it back. If I want to<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing it is going to require a bunch of time, and I might not want to exert the effort to do it, but I think I know where the bodies are buried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually I’ll coalesce things into one thing, and store that far and wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe all that’ll be a random MariaDB dump where someone can pick through and find what came out of my numb fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably not; I’m not that interesting. But it’ll be there for someone to find if he\/she wants to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past fourteen years, I’ve hammered out whatever’s been seeping from my scarred brain the vast majority of days in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can still type. For the most part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a skill that’s really second-nature at this point. I’m not sure that writing with a pen or pencil really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am I proud of what I’ve barfed out for the month?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ummmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I should reword that. Am I really upset about what I’ve generated?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I am finished<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s an accomplishment by itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can use it is proof, even if it’s only to myself, that I can stick to something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For miscellany vacillating between trying to watch the undercard presidential debate, and the Thursday Night Football game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honestly, neither is of much interest. Whichever one I end up with probably won’t occupy my attention all that long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can do that tonight because I’m finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow, fingers crossed, my medication will arrive so I can take that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we can slide into December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

shiver<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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