Sunday, September 17, 2006

What Is the Name of This Blog?

Perhaps you noticed that I changed the name of this website. Now it's three punctuation marks, instead of one. If you are reading this from a mental institution or prison, and you want to remain in my fan club, just add the pointy braces in four quick slashes of a razor, then pour in ink (optional).

This was really the name I wanted all along. But of course, HTML being what it is, pointy braces were right out. Computers are just postmodernist about context. It is very difficult to get "<" to come up on the screen in such a way that the computer doesn't raise its hands to its cheeks and call its supervisor. To actually get the pointy braces to show up, you have to type a series of symbols that I cannot communicate to you here. A garbled mass of symbols that Mr. HTML thought nobody would ever want to use in context, and so it was safe to use as a paraphrase for ">" -- but what about people who want to talk about that mass of symbols... in HTML? Oh man.

Goedel definitely has something to say about this, but in the meantime I have a new title. Thanks to Kaylen but no thanks to Goedel. You know what? I'm glad he starved himself to death.

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