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.

  • Eve: Jesus is all over our car and all over everwhere, ‘cept we can’t see him. Dotty: Yeah, ‘cept in our hearts when somebody eat us!

  • Dear Lu

    Another story from the past; he watched as the cloud lifted from her mouth. it was strange seeing her smoke. she’d been thought of as a good girl, and this turned his view of her into puddles of melted snow. “when had she started?” purity shaken off with each flick. “it’s time to let go.…

  • 9 8 Years Ago Today I Met The Most Beautiful Woman in the Whole World (edit: my wife informed me when I got home that it has, indeed, only been 8 years)

  • I always feel especially good when I stump the browsers built in spellchecker with my creative spelling. Source: skitch.com

  • Another One from 2001

    I had high hopes for myself. I don’t mind being compared to John Cusak monday i took razor in hand and manipulated the look of my hair. it went from a few inches to a few millimeters (for you non-metric users, that’s really small). each day since i use my shower shaver and keep it…

  • It’s Like a Time Machine

    Sometime around 10 years ago I started using Blogger. At the time there wasn’t much to be said for blogs. There were a few here and there, but nothing to blog home about. I don’t even think I had heard of Google at that time. But I had an audience of 2 or 3. And…

  • … so don’t fret.

  • Boys 1 through 7

    10 years ago I was playing with the concept of writing Pop Stories. Stories that take you just a minute or so to read. Kind of like pop songs. All sugary and sweet, yet sometimes heartbreaking and… ok, I just couldn’t think of longer stories than this; boys 1 through 7 the pavement was cold…

  • For something as ubiquitous as the web has become in our lives, it’s always good to remember that for a lot of people, this all makes about as much sense as our cars. There is an expectation that we can put the key in, and the car will start and as long as that happens,…

  • Albums That Start With L have brought me to a bunch of live recordings. Quite exciting.

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