April 1, 2010
Dear Reader(s),
After 7 years of fighting corruption,
rooting out evil, and posting diagrams of anuses, verbungle.com will be closing
up shop for good.
The real motivating factor for me is: Blogger
is eliminating FTP publishing on May 1st. I currently use FTP to publish this
blog. It's easy, it's fast, and it works. I know very little about publishing
blogs, about the internet, about computers, about turbines, about alternators,
about freon tanks. When I get something to work, be it publishing a blog or
gerry-rigging a shower nozzle or a perfecting a dazzling spin move in the
paint, I continue doing it until it no longer works. Then I am faced with two
options: figure out how to make it work again, or stop doing it.
I spent about 20 minutes trying to figure
out an alternative to FTP. Blogger posted an online tutorial. I followed along
until it asked me for some settings that I would need to get from my ISP or my
hosting company or some bullshit. I was too lazy to do that.
So I thought about it. I quickly came up
with several reasons to quit:
1) I have pretty much stopped posting due to
busy-ness/exhaustion/laziness.
2) I ain't had much to say lately anyway.
3) I ain't about to go figuring out some
newfangled system for publishing stuff.
4) The longer my old archives live on the
internet, the greater the chance that they come back to fuck up my real life in
some way.
5) Nobody reads this thing anymore.
Probably a few more. Then I thought about
reasons not to quit. The children, of course. And, honestly, the great joy I've
taken from having an outlet to post my musings and theories and stories
whenever I felt like it. And, most importantly, the fact that SOMEBODY (you)
was reading it, and occasionally commenting on it. That relationship has been
incredibly rewarding, I want to thank you for it, and I hate to give it up.
So I have decided that I won't give it up,
exactly. I am going to take down this old blog, retire the verbungle name, and
start another blog on May 1st or thereabouts, probably using different
publishing software, but maybe not.
A fresh start. A new era. Previously unseen
anuses.
Anyone who's interested in learning the url
(when I come up with one), hit me at bungmeister at gee mail dot com. Anyone
who's not, I'll miss you anyway.
Until then:
Find old friends.
Listen to new bands.
Take pictures.
Start blogs.
Read books.
Grow old in a bar.
Embrace the obvious dick joke.
Experiment with a new hairstyle.
Stick your hand down someone's pants.
Don't drive drunk.
At the bare minimum, do the bare minimum.
Thanks so much for your time, and see you on
the tubes sometime soon.
Your pal,
Hans Bungle