Frequently Asked Questions

1. Who's writing all this?

Just a man, born in the 1950s
Ethnic: American Midwest mongrel.
Half a century's lifetime gone, now laying low in Sacramento.

2. Why do you do this?

Gotta respond somehow.

3. Your blog doesn't look like most. How come?

'Most' use community software like Wordpress, with its easily-enabled comments, etc. I still do my web publishing the old-fashioned-way, composing and modifying my HTML in a text editor.

4. Is that you on MetaFilter?

Yes. On Reddit, I'm HeavyMetalOverbite, but on eBay, Mastadon and Twitter, where I never post anything, I'm Cyberpunk909.

5. What's with the carrots?

Weekday mornings, first thing I eat is generally a handful of those lathed-down mini-carrots, slowly munched to and even through lunchtime. And then almost every afternoon I juice a pound of carrots.
Update -- as of early '07 I've fallen out of the mini-carrot habit, so dropped the blog's "Breakfast" label. I'm still juicing in the afternoons, however (weekdays only).

A note on syntax, and the way I write:

Weblog entries often get tweaked in the day or two following the initial posting... even so, an entry only gets that "updated" note added to the top if I've changed it so much, new URL(s) were added.

2023 note: Currently, the goal is an update every other day. Mostly these are just the most interesting things I've seen in cyberspace but on days when links are lacking I may just post a frame from a comic or a scan from an old magazine.

Italicized text indicates a book, newspaper or magazine title, whereas "quotes" delineate the title of a movie, or (rarely) a magazine article or short story.
Direct quotes lifted from web-sites are usually marked in orange, and if it's more than a sentence fragment it's usually offset between <blockquote> tags. Sometimes, the source of the quote isn't indicated, but can be accessed via a hyper-linked asterisk at the end.