Neotoma's Midden

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Neotoma, or pack rats, live in nests called middens. The same midden may remain inhabited for longer than humans have lived in cities, providing us with a rich record of an ecosystem. This record is, often enough, literal shit. But to those who are, as they say, in the know, the shit reveals secrets. We refer to this today as the Good Shit.

I use this website to catalog Good Shit.

Bookmarks is my diverse catalog of links I’d like you to check out. It is very big, so you might have an easier time finding what you are looking for by looking through All Sorts of Things, which lists more specific formats each link follows, or My Collections for my manually curated list of links. Fun Things are for the silly of you. If you are chronically serious, please do not click it.

Directories will link you to other websites that track a long list of links. In Blog, I write whatever I want. I do not think it is particularly good, but the price you pay for browsing my personal website is making contact with my personality.

What’s new?

I have a Now page! I plan to keep the page updated with what I’ve been up to and thinking about. So far, I hope to keep it low-effort and narrative than what I want to post in my blog. In doing so I also messed with my RSS feeds again. Apologies for any duplicates, and let me know if you see any problems!

I also am tracking you! I tracked you for about three days using Shynet, then I moved on to using goaccess. There is no tracking script or cookies. The only thing I’m looking at are the access logs my website produces whenever someone visits a page. This includes info like the IP address, which I’ve configured to be anonymized so I only see roughly what country people are from, which pages are popular, and where people are finding this site. It also tells me when I have cute 404 errors, like people trying to grab a stupid favicon–I added an emoji in hopes less people will ask for one–and other people checking if this is an insecure Wordpress site lol.

I just finished writing a new post about Daoism you should go check out! I’ve been reading a lot into it, and this is my hope to get you on board as well.

Word to the wise

My critics have been chatty this year. They have already pointed out my stylesheet is amateurish, the quality of my posts do not make up for my inconsistent schedule, and any attempt to find bookmarks worth reading is met by a wholly uncharming amount of jank. To them I offer the words of Roger L’Estrange:

…[Websites] and dishes have this common fate; there was never any one of either of them that pleased all palates…[T]hough I deliver up these [webpages] to the [world-wide-web]1, I invite no man to the reading of them; and whosoever reads, and repents, it is his own fault. To conclude, as I made this composition principally for myself, so it agrees exceedingly well with my constitution ; and yet, if any man has a mind to take part with me, he has free leave and welcome. But let him carry this consideration along with him — that he is a very unmannerly guest, that presses upon another body’s table, and then quarrels with his dinner.

  1. Original: books, papers and press, which I believe were misspellings unfortunately common in his era. ↩︎

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