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Aren't personal websites supposed to be messy and incomplete? Welcome to the basement.

Added an old story of mine. This reminds me of the section on bbs.stardestroyer.net where the late Stuart Slade posted his Salvation War novels.

Back in the real world…

What will it be this time? Morgan lost count of the scenarios the nightmare sequencer presented him long ago, along with his grip on time. He had been a prisoner of war, offered freedom and a new home if only he would ...

Meanwhile, in the real world… (reprise)

“Quadruple the current dosage.” Isaac Magnin delivered the order without raising his voice. The technician attending Morgan, who laid quiescent in the nightmare sequencer’s crèche, nodded, and Magnin grinned ...

Variation

Morgan found himself standing at attention, his right arm outstretched in salute. The gate creaked shut behind the SS officer, who glared through Morgan as if he were not there. Low-ranking stormtroopers flanked the officer; the blackened ...

Meanwhile, in the real world…

Karen Del Rio shook her head as the AI interpreting Morgan Cooper’s simulator-induced dream halted the scenario, allowing him to rest inside the nightmare sequencer. “The theory underpinning the Milgram Factor assumes ...

Theme

Morgan Cooper studied the experimenter, ignoring the hand he offered as a polite gesture. His muddy eyes were those of the technician who helped him into the simulation crèche and hooked him up. His leathery hands were those of the nurse ...

"The Milgram Battery" is something I wrote in 2012 for the Curiosity Quills: Primetime anthology (November 2013).

The concept dates back to my original trunk novel, but my editor suggested ...

A couple of posts this week.

• Ideal Breakfast?: I doubt mine is anybody's ideal, but it works for me.

• [Things to Do in April 2024[](https://starbreaker.org/blog/misc/things-to-do](](https://starbreaker.org/blog/misc/things-to-do) ...

<quoting=divsel postID=2364 threadID=147> But I suppose if you ask me what the moral of the pseudo-comic strip is, it would be that creating a culture of nitpicking, elitism, and and constant superiority tripping over idealogical things -- whether based ...

Person number 2 seems to be what sociologists used to call [other-directed[](https://www.artofmanliness.com/character](](https://www.artofmanliness.com/character) ...

Sounds like you're trying to say that all three characters are assholes.

1. The guy "on the left" is self-righteous and more concerned about ...

<quoting=divsel postID=2352 threadID=43> I didn't always listen to music like this obviously. I got kind of bored with all types of rock music at some point though. Around the late 2010s, like very close to 2020, I started transitioning into vaporwave ...

Sounds like you've got a similar story, but it's yours to ...

<quoting=the-syreth-clan postID=2346 threadID=147> Assorted Random Anime Ramblings (2023.03.27) In which I gather all anime I ever watched properly that I could think about and give a few ...

<quoting=orchids postID=2298 threadID=241> dam i'm learning that brave browser isn't all it's cracked up to be:

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers#brave

i'll probably still use it though. although that article is a really interesting read ...

Added this for the March IndieWeb carnival.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/tech/personal-web-accessibility-march-2024/index.html

<quoting=orchids postID=1172 threadID=147> i wrote about one of my fav musicians right now, Rosie Tucker:

https://basementcommunity.bearblog.dev/rosie-tucker/

literally have had her on repeat since being locked in the house. her music is nuts </quoting ...

~~deleted text~~ should translate to <del>deleted text</del>, shouldn't it?

<quoting=orchids postID=2308 threadID=147> the not wanting to doxx yourself is totally a valid argument for having separate sites (even though you said you're fine with people finding out your name), but I think for separating out content, I would definitely ...

I think he's been a personal web advocate for as long as I've been acquainted ...

I just pushed a new version of my website to https://starbreaker.org. It was originally staged at https://new.starbreaker.org but that's now a temporary alias.

@Eternity had given me some advice by email back in January that I ended up taking.

https ...

<quoting=hasp postID=2296 threadID=257> I have a few scripts to make my life easier :P

• i use this when i want to quickly search about something. (wikipedia for terminal)

#!/bin/sh

query="$@"
title=${query^}
query=$(echo $query | tr ' ' '_')
content ...

Marcus Miller plays a mean bass.

Thanks. Yesterday I put together a script to create an XML sitemap for non-AI/non-commercial search engine crawlers. ...