Hello, web friends, I'm Paulo, though many of you have known me as "brownpau" since the late 1990s when I first got on the web and started writing HTML. Today I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia where I have just recently accepted a position making internet for the Trailer Park Boys.
You may also know me as @PicPedant on Twitter. My website is at brownpau.com but I've lately been posting more to https://mastodon.social/@brownpau
I do apologize for the Hotmail address, but I didn't want the mailing list flooding my Gmail inbox, so I have resubscribed to the list from this special place. ________________________________ From: Joseph Rooks josephrooks@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2019 10:49 PM To: Brennen Bearnes bbearnes@gmail.com; Andy Baio andy@waxy.org Cc: tildeclub@lists.tildeverse.org tildeclub@lists.tildeverse.org Subject: Re: Welcome to the "tildeclub" mailing list
Well, this is a nice surprise. I was just having a conversation about how burned out I am on all of the kicking and screaming on most social media and mourning the loss of the kind of internet I grew up with, when all of a sudden all of these friendly emails, many accompanied by familiar names, started coming in.
I’m @josephrooks everywhere. I’ve been writing for a living for 11 years now, usually with agencies that bring me in to help with copy for UX/web design projects. I dropped out of Virginia Tech to have a nervous breakdown not long after the shooting and decided to become a writer on a whim after just one writing class, and it actually worked out somehow.
I daydream about starting an Olde Internet Reenactment Society sometimes. I’m happy to see people carving out space for a little bit of sanity in my inbox, it’s the nicest thing in there in a long while. On Sep 15, 2019, 10:32 PM -0400, Andy Baio andy@waxy.org, wrote:
Hi! I'm Andy Baiohttps://waxy.org. I used to make things on the internethttps://waxy.org/about/, and now I mostly make things off of it, like bringing 1,200 or so people to Portland every year for an annual festival called XOXOhttps://xoxofest.com/. You might know me from my work on Waxyhttps://waxy.org/, Kickstarterhttps://www.kickstarter.com, Upcominghttps://upcoming.org, Kind of Bloophttps://kindofbloop.com, Playfichttps://playfic.com/, coining the term "supercuthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercut," or some other stuffhttps://waxy.org/about/.
I made this disastrous DIY remix mashup thing for Tilde.club that still kind of works. Just hit all four YouTube buttons quickly and brace yourself. Refresh for another catastrophe. https://tilde.club/~waxpancake/
Here are the last three things I saw online that made me happy.
1. A text adventure game about fly fishinghttps://rcveeder.net/flyfishing/. Sort of. 2. Gary Larson's official website for The Far Sidehttps://www.thefarside.com/ redesigned for the first time in 19 yearshttps://web.archive.org/web/20041023075223/http://www.thefarside.com:80/. 3. Some Halloween decorations from the late 1990shttps://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1172938590390632448 that are relevant to this crowd.
— Andy.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 7:20 PM Brennen Bearnes <bbearnes@gmail.commailto:bbearnes@gmail.com> wrote: Hello friends.
I'm:
- https://tilde.club/~brennen/
- proprietor of the tilde ghost town at https://squiggle.city/
- https://mastodon.social/@brennen
I used to write code to sell circuitboards; these days I work for the Wikimedia Foundation.
I've spent a lot of my tilde time over the last few years on tilde.town, and it's been a refuge and a solace in these generally appalling times.
Looking forward to seeing some of you in shell space, whenever I get my key situation sorted.