Jo's Miscellany

This year likely marks some internetly anniversary for me, although I’m uncertain which one really counts: fourteen since my first website (a Geocities abomination) seventeen since my entry into the world of BBSing and corequisite MUDding; twenty-five since the acquisition of my first computer (a Tandy CoCo 2), which was precipitated by my earliest adventures on Prodigy via my grandmother’s office computer (I was a big fan of that Sherlock Holmes game, and ran up the phone bill accordingly).

I’ve scattered my various interests all over the Internets for more than a decade now, and have periodically attempted to collect “all” of the scribblings and scratchings I’d made, a mammoth task, perpetually unaccomplished.

One of my first BBS handles was “renaissancewoman”, more an aspiration than anything, but I’ve discovered that it actually fits me better than I thought.  I really *do* have a range and depth of interest in enough areas of study that the moniker fits.

I’m not going to attempt to compile the Universal Theory of Myself again.  It’s completely fruitless.  But I am going to use this space, for whatever I like, whenever I can.  With mobile Internet and apps like Twitter and Instagram, I can actually collect my current self with very little effort at all.