Experimental and Experiential

Experimental and Experiential

This why there’s always a blog, Savez.

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!”

MacDuff in Shakespeare’s Scottish Play (2.3)

Originally¹, it was an individual, hand-coded page with a scant paragraph about whatever I did that day, and after a few years, I hit upon the tag line, “Experimental and Experiential.”

Hand-coded. Uploaded by FTP protocol each day, for the new entry. Long before there were databases with content driven by dynamic display.

I was doing book reviews, or, at least mentions about whatever I was reading at the time. These days, I do more of pointer and link, unless I get into something that I want to interact with, and then I get verbose. It happens.

Think I’ve listed this elsewhere, but astrofish.net/xenon became SkyFriday.com, astrofish.net/blog, astrofish.blog, BexarCountyLine.com, and a few others I can’t recall.

Digging around², I found that my own name, Kramer Wetzel, is unique enough, and as a pointer, perhaps the best tool I’ve got as people tend to confuse astrofish.net with just astrofish, and that doesn’t work.

Experimental and Experiential

The horoscopes have been in production since, I’ve got a paper copy of some of the earliest, with no date, I’m guessing around 1987, recollections are fuzzy. Regular, online since 1993, pre-web, then rolling over to a web presence in 1994, and a weekly by 1995. The weeklies ran on Monday morning, being posted, again by hand, Sunday night.

I swapped that out for a Thursday date, and then, during the pandemic and its associated depression, I went with just monthly, but that didn’t last long.

It was only a matter of time until I was itching to get back to a weekly.

Experimental and Experiential

I toyed with this last year, going to work in the monthly with weeklies at 7, 14, 21 and 28 — 4 times in a month. That is ending soon, too, as halfway through this experiment, I figured, next few years, I’ll stick with what I know, and I can do a publish date anytime I want it.

I like Tuesday. By next year, I’ll keep pushing out the horoscopes on Tuesday, think the e-mail version³ drops on Thursday, not sure, don’t recall what those preferences were set at.

Shrug.

Experimental and Experiential

As long as I’ve got coffee and cognition, I can keep doing this.

As always? This is all Experimental and Experiential.

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1. Original location, astrofish.net/xenon. ↩
2. Two questions about various URLs. ↩
3. The mailing list, opt-in. ↩