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Axoplasm.com has been an active domain since 1999.

This website is the direct descendent of my first-ever website, which I built during grad school in 1995–1996. Its content has been migrated a zillion times through static HTML → hand-rolled PHP+MySQL → WordPress → Blogger → Tumblr → Drupal → Django. So there are bound to be some dead links and broken images. 🤷🏼‍♂️

It delivers boring HTML that renders in every browser ever, with or without stylesheets or JavaScript. There is a primitive styleguide. This was either built from, or is the foundation for, my usual website boilerplate. It is hosted on a shared server somewhere in California, along with zillions of other wee projects I started then forgot about.

The fonts are IBM Plex.

This design isn’t minimalist so much as lazy.

My sigil ✳︎ is an eight-spoked sprocket, U+2733. Depending on your device’s character encoding scheme and adherence to CSS, it may render as a greenish emoji ✳️ or as a plain text character ✳︎. I was inspired to adopt it as my personal sigil by Kurt Vonnegut’s illustration of an asshole and/or as a reference to the Noble Eightfold Path.

Composite image of a small stone Buddha with a pink flower in front of it, taken at the Japanese garden in San Francisco in 1992; and Vonnegut’s illustration of a asshole.

The author, as signifiers