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What February 2024 looked like
Sorry. I didn’t get out much this month…
Otherstream at 20: 2003
Wow I turned into kind of an asshole there for a while. By 2003, there was domesticity and some travel. but the site seemed to be losing some of its charm (and its audience). The same thing happened to Rhoda in the 1970s and the producers divorced her, but it didn’t help. I remained bitter and cynical as always, but much less charmingly so. That didn’t help either.
Highlights and favorite posts follow. I tried to include a couple of the obnoxious ones as well even though they make me look bad, but not too many because they make my brain hurt.
January:
- To the Sierra (several posts follow)
- Where I live
February:
- Stupid potheads
- My Valentine
- Off to LA (several posts follow)
- Randomly Monday
March:
- Idiots of the week
- I protest (this one’s kind of obnoxious though I still stand by some of the sentiments)
May:
June:
- East Coast trip (several posts follow)
July;
August:
September:
- Letters to the editor
- The S&M “community (this one’s still pretty funny, but I can’t take credit)
- Psycho driver
- A religious hypocrite? Never…
October:
- Preservation vs. density
- SoCal road trip (several posts follow)
November:
December:
- Central Coast road trip (several posts follow)
Otherstream at 20: 2002
Twelve days till the big anniversary, and fourteen years to cover because I missed a couple of days.
2002 was all about love and mushiness, until September, when it became all about love and cohabitation. But I occasionally managed to write about other things, too. In retrospect, I’m not wild about some of it, but most of it holds up OK.
January:
February:
- Weekend in Fresno
- Animal “rights”
- New York Pizza (it didn’t really burn down after all)
- The “bear” thing
March:
- Los Baños (the first “coupled” road trip begins, several posts follow)
- Find a city
- Cities, continued
- Free speech
- Northwestern road trip begins (several posts follow)
April:
May:
June:
July:
- Mmmm. Databases (if only there were a career choice for someone with these interests…)
- On gay bookstores
- Community center
- Sheehy is an idiot
August:
September:
October:
November:
It was twenty years ago today…
…that I bought my first computer: a Macintosh 6300CD, with a 100 MHz processor, 16 MB of RAM, a 1 GB internal hard drive, and a 15-inch CRT monitor.
Talk about your life-changing moments. I built the first version of this website a month later (at a time when most people were still a little fuzzy on the concept of just what a website was) and i was building them for pay within a couple of years. Twenty years later, I’m a librarian working in the IT department who generates historical web content for a living.
Let’s just say it beats the fuck out of managing a Kinko’s.
I’m on my fifth primary Mac now: a 27-inch iMac with a 3.4 GHz processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a 1 TB internal drive. I’ve also owned three other secondary ones, three iPhones, two iPads, and an AppleTV…all of which makes me little more than a third-rate fanboy.
And for the record, that twenty-year-old Mac still works.
