I have returned.
I am still fed up with the slop that ends up on the new web. I never even really knew the old web. But I am but one man doing my part, sticking out from the algorithmically generated bilgewater that ends up drawing our time more and more.
I found a site aggregator called wiby.me that inspired me to come back. I've grown old, as old as one can grow in the six months or so it's been since I've been here.
I am freed from the bounds of time (university schedules) and now am limited only by international law (the need to work and the schedules thereof).
I've learned a lot about myself. I've been working on furnishing a new house. That's a lot of work. Things that I never knew needed to be done must be done.
A part of me wants to go back, cold turkey, to the old internet. Figure out how to restrict my browser so that I can only run things from 2006 or something. Then, it seems, that my top of the line computer will become equal parts worthless and future-proof.
Renewing old computers is a lot more fun than you'd think. There's a challenge in rooting through old organizational computers that are 'no good anymore.' It's a walk through time for me. I've just hooked up a ThinkStation P330 that I can't believe work was throwing out. It has an Intel 8500 in it! How could they get rid of it! You only really need to have 4 cores nowadays and that baby has 6. I always seem to be in want of SSDs, too. Storage is so cheap nowadays I'm rattling my fist with the higher-ups trying to let me upgrade all their hardware. Assuming that there's 30 staff members, I found (without too much searching) a pack of 10x240gb SSDs for $150. I'd think that I could rustle up $500 somehow. It would make me extra happy if I could spend a week this summer upgrading everybody :0. I could also upgrade them to Linux. Frankly, I'm not sure anyone would be able to tell the difference between Cinnamon and Win10 (yes, I know, EOL is coming; I'm gonna have some convincing to do). I dream of taking over the entire IT department. We currently outsource it and it's only available to us in person on Thursdays.
Do you ever find yourself with more things than you'd ever need? I end up collecting watches and the like. It may or may not be a problem. I think I have around 10 or so. I'm kinda eyeing another one, a Casio calculator watch. I used to have one but I sold it. It's not too crazy but I'm entertaining the thought of another one. I just got a Garmin Instinct the other week. The Garmin is even solar. Maybe I'm just addicted to new new new.
I find myself yearning for childhood again. Maybe I'm just too nostalgic. I remember the past. That's why I studied history. No more innervating myself on novelties. The fun always wears off. Solidity is not final. Finality is no longer attainable without the meta-worldview of the soul. It's pointless otherwise.
Do people really do this all day? Manipulating HTML seems dreary after a while. Lacking the psychic endurance for writing is not particularly pleasant. Psychic endurance is an interesting way to think about attention span. When did the web get so thick?