Welcome!

Thank you, and welcome to my new blog.  Today I am a fountain pen.

Anyway.  A couple of years ago, I started a blog over on LiveJournal under the pseudonym Sidebernie (it's still there if you want to check it out).  It wasn't terribly original in concept-- basically, it was just a journal that I was sharing with everyone else.  There was one overarching theme-- that I would try to learn something new every day, and post about it, with explanations, citations, and diagrams if needed.  I tried to keep it to actual things, not just "here's a neat cat pic or tech post I saw."  The sort of thing you always wondered about, but never bothered to look up?  I looked it up, and posted about it.  That's why I know what hamstone is, and how to tell which quail laid a particular egg, and why you should be very careful making friends with a platypus.

But Livejournal was bought by the Russians, and the culture changed, and I became tired of the ads and the DDOS attacks by hackers who were Absolutely Not The Russian Government(TM).  So I stopped posting for a while.

And now I'm starting it up again, with a new name, and a new location.  The content will be mostly the same, though.  Sorry.