Meta: About this blog

This is (a first cut at) a sticky-post or landing post for mdlbear.dreamwidth.org. I intend for it to be edited rather than replaced, so the link should stay the same.

Counting the imports from LJ (same username; now no longer updated since they broke automatic crossposting), this blog has been in existence for twenty years as of June 10, 2022.

The Mandelbear

... is what I call the fractal you see in my default icon. The Mandelbear is infinitely fuzzy, being a two-dimensional cross-section of a four-dimensional object. It occasionally manifests as an elderly hacker-songwriter, and sometimes as a Middle-Sized Bear.

Series Tags

These tags mark ongoing series of posts (and are mostly lifted from the post I made last Thursday introducing NaBloPoMo, with a couple of additions and edits.

curmudgeon - The Computer Curmudgeon

This series is a combination of public service announcements, mostly about security- and privacy-related events, and longer informational pieces. These posts are cross-posted onto computer-curmudgeon.com. I'd like to work up to one or two per week.

done - Done Since...

Posted every Sunday (sometimes delayed or advanced depending on conventions and where the end of the month falls), this contains my summary of the week followed by (under a cut tag) the week's worth of to.do file entries. The format of the to.do entries is described in How to.do it, and has been described as sort of an online bullet journal.

river - The River

These are posts about, ... Hmm. What are they about? Love, friendship, grieving, ... I guess the overall theme is emotions.

s4s - Songs for Saturday

What it says on the tin. Songs, and occasionally other music. Sometimes posted late, as "Songs for Sunday".

thanks - Thankful Thursday

My weekly gratitude posts. I'm not entirely consistent about these -- you will occasionally see a "Thankful Friday". There's (almost) always one on (American) Thanksgiving. Of course.

trainwreck

Posts about my finances.

Other Tags

• goingsideways -- signal boost for weekly posts on GoingSideways.blog
• meta -- Posts about the blog itself, and other self-referential stuff.
• poem
• review
• song
• Conventions and other annual events get a pair of tags: the name of the event, and the year.

There are lots more; those are just the more important ones.

Websites

• @ssavitzky@indieweb.social
• GoingSideways.blog - Travelers With Chronic Health Baggage started late 2021.
• computer-curmudgeon.com. Strictly about computers and software, with the vague hope of finding something that people might find worth paying for.
• Lookingglass Folk -- my current band.
• steve.savitzky.net -- My "personal" website, including my songs, concerts, and CDs
• stephen.savitzky.net -- My "resume" website. This has links to my profiles on LinkedIn and a few other places.