Future Ben

The existence of my “fucking website” is at risk! Dynamic action must be taken to save the future of futureben! Now I know nobody actually reads any of this, but it’s a blog so I will self referentially blog regardless! The point of this site, other than vanity, is to have some connection to the ideals of communication. Any sane mad scientist holes his or herself up in the lab and lets the layperson wonder what they are up to until the villagers finally come crashing the gates with torch and pitch fork in hand. That’s just not me though. And so, if somebody is wondering exactly where I went awry, here it is as a matter of public record.

So the site is going to migrate to a new home. I would say a new server, but I don’t know how nameservers and such actually work. It could possibly remain on the same server. For all I know they just change some pointers and we’re done. Another thing that may or may not change is the name of the site. The relationship between the current webmaster and me is…not very friendly. I don’t actually own the name of the site so unless an act of non hostility occurs, I will have to come up with a new nickname. How many domain names involving the word “future” could there possibly be?

Hey, facing adversity is human. And triumphing over adversity is heroic, so let’s hope the New Year will bring an even better website than the 15 minute hack job I am currently updating. A note on Wordpress. It is awesome! I do in fact know next to nothing about the series of tubes that make up the internet but I have been able to keep a blog going with minimal effort. I was feeling some anxiety about how to transfer this site but backing up all the files was pretty simple. Really the hard part is going to be setting up Wordpress in the new server space and I think there are about a million people who have done it already. Oh look! You just click a radio button and it installs itself. So easy a biologist could do it. Maybe I can make an actual website next.

Here is to a new year of breaking from the past, finding fresh starts and personal growth. Here’s to the bag of crickets I accidently let loose in the lab just now. Here’s to all of the mice who will sacrifice themselves on the altar of science to help me acheive my vision. Here’s to all of the beautiful and tragic creations that will carry our hearts and minds from the world we know into the terrific and terrifying dreamscape that is forever the future.

Excelsior!

This weekend was the retrotastic Blipfestival. chiptunes and 8bit art and music. I didn’t get to attend the whole festival, but the highlights for me were Coova, Bitshifter Random, and Bubblyfish.

Of special note was a lecture by Nullsleep on composing music on a Nintendo Entertainment System. I have respect for anyone who writes music in Assembly language. The system is so simple though that I could could make sense of the code from first glance. That’s a first!

So yes I will be getting me a gameboy and loading up LSDJ as soon as this JUICEBOX thing finally comes together. I have been really remiss in doing my part on that project.