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My mind is racing to which topics i should write about. what should i say? What can i say? How do i get across who i am and what I'm about in a non-generic way? I don't know. Most of what i write is more stream of consciousness notes about ideas meant primarily for myself. How much of my personal life and inner thoughts am i comfortable with sharing, and how much are you comfortable with reading? Still, this capsule is for me, not you. You are welcome to view and i encourage it very much, but the motive of me writing these lines is purely selfish in nature. A place for me to organize my thoughts and give them shape. I guess that true for a lot of people who make stuff.
The first thing I did was actually write up a guide on how I made this capsule. Its rough around the edges and I revised it a bunch over the day ironing out small spelling mistakes and adding minor bits of helpful information that slipped my mind before. Still, I feel I did a good job in making a functioning guide that I wish I had when starting this venture. The wiki page really could use some clearing up.
I guess the literal answer is this, entry 1. I like the idea of gemlogs however you need a small knowledge of scripts and of course proper permission to add those scripts to the server. I saw mention of some phlogging scripts on the SDF public FTP server when reading through the wiki, however I'm still waiting on my verification to come in to access that part of the server (I opted to send a dollar in the mail, in retrospect should have just used paypal) and I don't know if anyone's cooked up something for gemini, or how to even apply those scripts. So in the meantime ill just write in a word processor and manually make a new page + link for each entry. There wont be anything fancy like timestamps unless I decide to manually date these. Timestamps might just be too much of a pain in the ass to keep up though so no promises. The important part is that im here writing and you're here reading, right?
This is my first time expressing myself long-form through a public outlet a very very long time. In my private writings I have a hard time committing to any one line of thought, which you'll probably have noticed by now feeling the literary whiplash. I guess im at the point in my life where im starting to want to write about my thoughts and share them too. Too often have I had a spark of a unique thought or a desire to say something only for it to die shortly after while not doing anything to act on them. Id like to finally give myself a chance to force them out of my head into (virtual) reality.
I would be lying by omission if I didn't include that I also hope someone comes across these blocks of text one day and gets some value out of them. I've long since given up on the desire to be validated and probably wont ever include a comment/like system to my pages, but the idea of my creations being seen by someone, anyone is still a nice thought. I put my email at the front of my capsule for a reason, I genuinely hope one day someone will be stricken by my words enough to send a message my way. I don't receive private messages very often, so I always feel happy when I do.
The hardest part is figuring out what should be cut out. A lot of sentences get written then scrapped because I find them too irrelevant or worded wierdly. should I have kept them in? Does one shot writing takes add to the authenticity of a personal log? My current take away is that sometimes its better to cut out the fat so that the more important bits are easier seen.
These entries will serve as stream of consciousness daily life stuff maybe, as well as travel related things. I want to do some reviews of the games and books and movies I like. But I also want to write about weird topics that have always interested me but never found common company to really talk about with. Psychedelic experiences, observations about reality, the nature of human experience, fractals and complexity, how order comes from chaos. Philosophical and mathematical and spiritual stuff. I also understand that these topics are probably too out there to the average tech nerd gemini users comfort zone. Also I find it hard to talk about complicated abstract subjects without sounding like a pretentious know-it-all asshole which I definitely don't want to come across as. So ill probably make a section specifically for those out there kind of writings with a warning about them being weird and perhaps too personal, viewer beware.
I haven't mentioned it yet however i’m really into fractal geometry. One of my hopes is to create a kind knowledge base about fractals on gemini. I wonder if I’m the first to come up with that particular project? I tried searching for fractals on GUS and geminispace but didnt get much.
I also thought it would be fun to make a gemini page dedicated to my pets, just for the laughs. Ill try to put in some pictures of them through the ascii converter and see if anything usable pops out.
In real life events, today im going to the farmers market to do some grocery shopping. Havent been to one in awhile so hope it goes well. Need to get into juicing again. I guess im at the end of my list of things to talk about. I want to get the day going anyways spent too much time staring at this damn screen. I guess ill see you in another entry, or whatever I make next. Thanks for reading.
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