Remembering Me

Through a series of complex hapenins n' stuff, I ended up going through my archives - reading what I wrote about a looooongg time ago. Dang I used to be a better writer! (but my photos were not as good then)

Anyway, since I am running out of quality material these past few years (or else am feeling too self-conscious now about having more readers than I ever dreamed possible), I may go through my past postings and pick out things that have some special meaning to me, or that I think are especially delicious.

One is my reaction to a quote from an email I received from my mom back in April of 2002. It is interesting to me now because 1) I think I may actually drink more beer now than I did then; and 2) I hear a lot of similar talk about macrobiotics and raw-foodism and what not recently.

I guess I should not have had the beer tonight. It appears I would have been better off with tea.

From: Janet Cameron

Glad you have given up beer--it's a bad expensive habit. On the other hand tea cures all sorts of stuff like death

(Note: I am 100% convinced that there are great health benefits to both Macrobiotics and Raw-foodism compared to an average junk-food diet - but I am very reluctant to give cause-effect type healing attributes to the diet alone (as is often portrayed by advocates). I am guessing that there may also be a tendency for people who eat that kind of a diet to have a more health-conscious attitude, which leads to beneficial lifestyle choices, the sum-total of which is feeling better, a positive attitude, and less susceptibility to illness.)

Also around that time, my blog was a do-it-yourself programming project. I didn't even know what a "blog" was until after I started writing on mine. It led me to do a little research into this "blog" craze, and my reaction was:

I have been looking around at a lot of other web logs, and it appears the only thing they ever talk about is other web logs. Apparently it is a huge addiction in the online world. I guess I should have known that being a "web developer" and all...

I was soooooo friggin' cutting edge back then! What happened to me?

Which leads to my final remembrence - when I introduced my blog to Tomoe (via instant messenger):

What the experts are saying about The Bastish-net:

kevinwcam: have you seen the bastish-net?
tomoekawuk: what does that mean?
kevinwcam: bastish?
tomoekawuk: oh! you are the webmaster of it?!
kevinwcam: Its my site.
tomoekawuk: that IS cool!