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For about as long as I’ve been on the internet*, which I guess now reaches back some fifteen years, I’ve had some small bit of self-publication available to the world at large. At first, this was not really anything more than a slightly fancier signature proudly displaying my @neosoft.com email address. That’s right, a real, live email address - not just a FIDO.net address or series of BBS pseudonyms. Once I got to the madness that was the tamu.edu dorm ethernet project (Lechner hall, 1994, first drop on campus = grade destroyer) and my brief stint as an overnight assistant tape operator at the NAC, I began to put up some fairly awful but humorous websites including, and I do not exaggerate here although I am not particularly proud of the content, the original (yes, the first, I am officially claiming title) reference to “making the baby Jesus cry” - ever. There’s not really any way to verify this, unless perhaps if my old co-worker would do so, but then again I guess there’s really no benefit from its proof.

Marr and I have had some rather overkill webhosting since 1996, and through various phases of good intentions have never quite put much content up. Blogs have come and gone like wisps of smoke from a Boy Scout campfire. I’m not even going to make this one public until I’ve proven to myself that, however bad the content is, I am posting consistently and making improvements in my own expression.

(… to be edited, continued, and extrapolated)

* The internet as used on this site will not refer back to the landline BBS days, although by my own admission it was basically just a slower, usually fewer user, less interactive version of the same old stuff we have today. Flash and speed, in the company of millions, does not indicate actual improvement.