Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

Day: August 22, 2009

  • Facebook won’t let me change my email settings. I would like none, please. 0. I use the iPhone app all the time and check the site quite often from my computer. I don’t need an email because someone I went to kindergarten with sneezed.

  • Now that Jane’s awake we’re going out blackberry hunting.

  • We will be the family to find a home for that child, and there’s no limit on this. You can tell your friends, you can tell your family, you can tell the whole world… A church in Georgia has promised to take any baby or orphan in as family. That is awesome. (via 22 Words) Source:…

  • “You know people who don’t drink Wilkin’s coffee just blow up sometimes.” madmenfootnotes: “No one under 25 drinks coffee anymore. Just Pepsi. They pour it on their Frosted Flakes.” This is an actual ad Jim Henson did for Wilkin’s coffee in 1958. The ad is both strangely violent and quirky but it’s no wonder Don…

  • Sonar Ruler rules! (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • Google Voice announces that they’re bringing back free calls to Canada.

    I missed this on Wednesday. If only I knew someone in Canada to call. Google Voice announces that they’re bringing back free calls to Canada.

  • tumblr_kos8gtn8lg1qzo5opo1 Starting out the morning with a little Fleet Foxes Sun Giant EP (This is “Drops in The River”). If you haven’t taken a listen, go do it (this is usually my charge when I post a song).

  • The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth… determined allotted periods and the boundaries of [our] dwelling place, that [we] should seek God, in the hope that [we] might feel [our] way toward him and find him. Acts 17:24-28 Heidi and I need to remember this.

  • Changed the layout of my site to have really big text for quotes. Do you like it? Me. (I also removed some things that always seemed too much on the side. Now it’s a bit simpler)