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.

  • Because it is used in every e-mail address and many tweets, you might be forgiven for thinking that the remarkably common symbol @, which English-speakers know as the “at sign,” but Italians call a “snail,” and south Slavs know as a “monkey,” is a fairly recent invention. In fact, as Wired magazine’s Tony Long points…

  • I’m enjoying some frech press while Eve chills out in the swinging chair.

  • According to Evelyn this is my “inja”

  • Absolutly the best comic panel ever. nevver: Comics Reporter

  • This is Stevens Hospital.

  • 35000: Getting ready to take off on a beautiful rainy day.

  • Just after the climax of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings, Sam Gamgee discovers that his friend Gandalf was not dead … but alive. He cries, “I though you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself! Is everything sad going to come untrue?” The answer of Christianity to that question is–yes.…

  • Wishing I had a lighter book to read tonight other than this one.

  • Eve is choosing the pie she wants.

  • Manuel or Otto

    When making bread do you favor using a bread machine or do you like the traditional oven method?