a breadcrumb trail
Crafting the thing, the only items I really had in mind to link to immediately in this blog's About page were my 13 cantos page and perhaps a couple of social media handles (Threads and Twitter). That's about it.
But then, I stumbled yet again on my old page at hitotoki.org, that writerly site that Craig Mod started around a decade and a half ago now. It was such an elegant concept, and so amenable to us writerly and photographerly types, that I immediately started a page there, even as TFR was still extant at the time (though in its last years, in hindsight). Also made a couple of what would turn out to be lifelong friends there, even as I never met them in person (hi, Sanna!), and still haven't.
Then, perusing my dreamhost.com FTP directory, I also stumbled on some other felicitous sites I'd cobbled together over the years that still speak to me dearly, hence are worthy of being breadcrumbed, as it were. ::chuckle::
But the biggest crumb — the whole loaf, really — isn't there on that list; and that's TFR, The Free Radical, my long-lived weblog on which I wrote daily for the whole decade of 2000-2010, and more sporadically after that last year (which was when I retired from UC Berkeley). There's a simple reason TFR isn't on the list: it's no longer online. Bits and pieces of it exist in The Internet Archive, but the bulk of it is no longer readable online. That said, I'm sure it was at one point hoovered up by robots.txt crawlers in its entirety at some point, and exists in some fashion, perhaps in The Common Crawl or other similar repository of web content over the decades.
So now I do have a side project to engage in, and that's to put the entirety of TFR into my lloydnebres.net domain, in its own directory there; because of course I did have an archive of it all, and have multiple copies in several external media. And, once that's done I can include it in this weblog's About page.
[ Note on today's pic: it's the statue of Ashurbanipal that stands on the plaza between the San Francisco Main Library and the Asian Art Museum; was walking through there this morning on my way to grab the delectable kouign-amann pastry at Arsicault. I thought the image fitting for today's blog post cuz of Ash's tablet that he's hanging onto. ::chuckle:: You can click on the pic to see the larger version.
From Claude: "Ashurbanipal was indeed an Assyrian king known for his extensive library and collection of clay tablets containing historical records, legal texts, and literary works." So there. Apt! ]