End, Middle, Beginning

This is a project I’ve been procrastinating on for six years.  Today, at the C4, I’m making a go at ending the verpeiling with my website.  Ending the string of broken promises that it will be updated. As with any blog, anything Web two-point-oh, it’s a work in progress, but it has to start somewhere. So, this is and end and a beginning. I hope there’s a long middle.

Some context: Nickfarr.org was registered in April of 2003.  Mostly, it just sat there with a picture of me in front of Fred 62, almost at daybreak on North Vermont Ave in Los Angeles.  My friends Patrick and Marikka stood with me in the middle of the street, snapping me holding a sign that was barely legible. Occasionally, people would ask me what the sign said…or just make assumptions it said something vulgar.  Really, it was part of a photo project of mine at the time, one where I held signs with silly sayings like “Iron my shirts before you wear them – Kenneth Cole”. That particular day, I was professing a crush on Thora Birch. Her role in Ghost World was fascinating. A few months later, I’d be leaving LA for Grand Rapids, MI.

Previous incarnations of my more active online presence were on Livejournal, monkey.org and umich.edu.  Today, I am reasonably active on Amplify and Twitter as well as hackerspaces.org’s blog.

Where will I go from here? Hopefully somewhere really cool. As I wrap this entry up, surrounded by awesome people at Cologne’s hackerspace, preparing for my talks at SIGINT 09, I hope I can actually engage with the world through this website/blog/digital home. Hopefully, people will find useful ideas here, be it in the form of random entries, slides, papers and other things I intend to post.

So here’s to a momentous beginning. All apologies to Anne Sexton for the title.