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: September 10, 2026

  • Random Date Archeology #19: I Got Distracted

    On March 25, 2018, at 3:14 in the afternoon, I walked into Hi-Voltage Records in Tacoma and spent $24.27 on a brand new copy of Haley Heynderickx’s I Need to Start a Garden, which is the sort of completely ordinary transaction that would have disappeared from my memory forever if I hadn’t apparently spent the…

  • Random Date Archeology #18: The Alphabet Was the DJ

    The Wheel of Time dropped me on Wednesday, September 1, 2010, and this time it found something I had actually been hoping would come up, which is a nice change from staring at a pile of old tweets and trying to decide whether complaining about my phone constitutes a story. Among the tweets was this…