Hello, my name is Samuel Bierwagen, and I am an nineteen-year-old white male residing in an undisclosed location within the emerald hills of Seattle. Like any self-respecting teenager, I maintain a plethora of accounts on various web BBSes and social networking sites. Here is a select subset of them.
bbot on everything2.org
bbot on urbis.com
bbot on tvtropes.org
sbierwagen on myspace.com
sbierwagen on facebook.com
sbierwagen on wikipedia.org
I can also be reached at the following e-mail addresses:
My public key, for secure communication, is availible here.
You might notice that I don't obsufucate the addresses, and use cleartext mailto: links. That's because you shouldn't do that. Seriously! Stop it.
This is actually the second incarnation of my site, the earlier being hosted on my very own machine, (lighttpd 1.3.2 on Fedora Core 4) which had the sterling uptime expected of a personal machine sitting in someone's garage. It had a much better design than this version, a design which succumbed to entropy after an inadvertent hard drive format, with the google cache updating soon after to the placeholder page godaddy runs on vacant domains. I attempted to resurrect my charmingly agricultural hack of a web server after, only to discover that Verizon filters port 80. Which, after all, is their right, but poor taste none the less. So I signed up with Linjutsu soon after they started running ads on 7chan. Five dollars a month! One cannot strike that with a branch. Of course, Linjutsu died, and I fled to Nearly Free Speech, which bills based on disk and bandwidth usage, rather than by month; which works rather well for low traffic sites like mine.
I will/am be using this site to more or less coherently articulate various things I find interesting. I hope (as I have been doing so for the past year) to build a Bussard Polywell(tm) fusion reactor and a carbon dioxide laser. It is remarkably easy to build such things, so long as your definition of "work" is suitably loose.
This, and indeed every other page on this site were written by hand in whatever text editor was closest. The best text editor for the job has so far been gedit, with OS X's "TextEdit" being just absolutely vile. It commits the cardinal sin of a text editor by rendering html, rather than just showing the damn tags. You have to go in and manually tell it to display text as text, and then it gets pissy every time you save a html file. Booo!
I use tables to render stylistic elements, and I use a non-standard color schema. I'm sorry. I learned HTML eight years ago, and I don't feel like learning another language just to make the W3C happy.