the SQUIGGLE.CITY ~. ~. ~.~.~.~. ~.~.~. ~.~. ~. ~.~.~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~.~.~.~. ~.~.~. ~.~.~. ~.~.~.~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~.~.~.~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~.~.~.~. ~.~.~. special introductory weekend edition .~--------------------------------~. ( VOL. 1, ISSUE 1 --- JANUARY 3 2015 ) `~--------------------------------~' ~brennen p1k3 bearnes, pub., sysop, ed. --PAGE 1: FROM THE PUBLISHER SYSOP & EDITOR'S DESK---------------- Welcome to the local paper. Since this is an internet paper, let's begin correctly with a picture of a cat: _.---.._ _.---...__ .-' /\ \ .' /\ / `. ( ) \ / ( ) / `. \/ .'\ /`. \/ .' ``---'' ) ( ``---'' .';.--.;`. .' /_...._\ `. .' `.a a.' `. ( \/ ) `.___..-'`-..___.' \ / `-.____.-' -- http://www.asciiworld.com/-Cats-.html -- With that out of the way, to business: It seems to me that any metaphorical internet metropolis must needs get itself together a weekly, if not a daily, rag. Similarly, this place is inspired by tilde.club, and a club should really have one or more newsletters in circulation. As to timing, since our fair .city is in truth named more aspirationally than objectively, and since I myself am thoroughly unreliable, subscribers will have to settle for "whenever I get around to it", which may for that matter be never again after this issue. Let's talk about the term "subscribers" for a moment. I'm sending this first issue to citizens@squiggle.city, which is a simple mailing list for all of the accounts on squiggle.city. Think of it as a one-time flyer-in-your-mailbox kind of deal. I'm not about to run an unsolicited opt-out newsletter (this publication takes a strong and only slightly hypocrisy-tinged editorial line about spam). If you'd like to opt-in for future issues of this morally upright & thoroughly respectable publication[1], you can run the following from your squiggle.city shell: touch ~/.takes_the_paper To unsubscribe, you can always do: rm ~/.takes_the_paper Backissues will be kept at http://squiggle.city/~paper/ Hope you enjoy this first issue. -- bpb [1]: Publication may be neither moral nor thorough. --PAGE 2: THE HAPPENING LOCAL SCENE------------------------------ ::crickets:: Ok, no, wait. A few quick ones: Todd on percussion, Adam on banjo: http://squiggle.city/~todd/music/2014/12/26/one-mans-shame/ Mike blogs: http://squiggle.city/~hord/ Rob elaborates on chapstick: http://squiggle.city/~robacarp/ --PAGE 3: SHELL COMMAND OF THE WEEK------------------------------ Here's a quick shout out to an old standby, du! Want to know how much space your home directory is taking up? Try this: du -hs ~ --PAGE 4: CLASSIFIEDS-------------------------------------------- Want to place an ad in the SQUIGGLE.CITY HERALD? Get in touch with our ad department at paper@squiggle.city (local mail only please - as a reminder, squiggle.city memberships may be obtained easily - see http://squiggle.city for instructions). ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___ ,---. /""`_,' | `\``""-; / THAT'S ALL, FOLKS \ /`\\ ';' .') | __ \ / (` / /(O\. _| .-`| `"` ` .-\_ .-' \ ` ;=-. .' . ._, / o o\ .-'` . '-._;_._.J .-'` `.-'` _.-` ' .' .' '- ._.-' /` / / | ._ ; | | )).-| | | / (/`.-| \ \ / .; ( (_)| | \ ; .' | '--'; | `\ / / | \ | `\ /.' / \ / ; |`\ | '. .' _.-| | | | '-. .-';_"---'`.__| | | \ `'-._ ``'-. jgs| \ \__\\ `''--.___\\ \__\\ squiggle.city | Jan. 2015 | NO RIGHTS RESERVED* * except for that cat, which in law probably is copyrighted by _somebody_, and that sweet pig, (c) Joan G. Stark, used (hopefully) in accordance with: http://web.archive.org/web/20091028023223/http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/please.htm