Is it weird?
That I call my external hard-drive “VALIS” and that I sort of see it as almost some kind of like ancestral data pool, versus the more personalized storage held locally? Cause I think that’s the direction this stuff is all going, ultimately with shit like immortal computing. You may have all your ancestors stored on a shared server with your brothers and sisters.
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October 21st, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Then there’s the added dimension of what’s stored online on this domain as information which is retrieveable to me, versus information stored on major apps I use online, like Gmail and Google Search, versus my information trails sideways through hyperspace subwexes and cookie formulations.