Hermitage's Living Book
Chapter One
Tuesday, April 28th, 2026aquariusvision.jpg
I've been playing around with AI image generation. It's really quite impressive, a lot better than when I last tried it out a year or two ago. In fact, AI is improving so rapidly perhaps I needn't have learned how to code at all! Why even have thoughts indeed, since the machine can probably do that for us as well.
But on the other hand, with "prompt engineering" we move away from "concept art" and into "the art of the concept." Very interesting, to say the least. I will continue trying to organize myself on here and make a better system for making posts.
-H
Sunday, April 26th, 2026
Let's see; ever unsatisfied, but we have to make improvements. All right -- I have done the basic thing, I have made a little Web 1.0 style frontpage with the cute little box where I manually say what are the "Latest Updates." But what now? Is this the grand "conquest" I had sought? Is there not a War of Art that I have thus far in all my sorry years only cowardly declined to fight? When will my voice have reached the apex or limit of refinement? Shall I continue NOT TO SPEAK until, silent, I should diminish in being and lapse into some melancholy solitude accompanied by the haunting spectres of my UNSPOKEN THOUGHTS?
If publication is speaking into the void, or sending "messages in bottles," by God, to shovel out the accumulated stuff built up in me from these decades of accumulated "life," I had better work on building an industrial-scale bottle factory.
My LIVING BOOK, hyper-media, schizomancy, subalternation of innumerable doubts, record-of-life, proof of Being, you cannot say nothing ever happens if it will happen RIGHT NOW in front of your eyes.
-H
Changing things up
Let's see; ever unsatisfied, but we have to make improvements. All right -- I have done the basic thing, I have made a little Web 1.0 style frontpage with the cute little box where I manually say what are the "Latest Updates." But what now? Is this the grand "conquest" I had sought? Is there not a War of Art that I have thus far in all my sorry years only cowardly declined to fight? When will my voice have reached the apex or limit of refinement? Shall I continue NOT TO SPEAK until, silent, I should diminish in being and lapse into some melancholy solitude accompanied by the haunting spectres of my UNSPOKEN THOUGHTS?
If publication is speaking into the void, or sending "messages in bottles," by God, to shovel out the accumulated stuff built up in me from these decades of accumulated "life," I had better work on building an industrial-scale bottle factory.
My LIVING BOOK, hyper-media, schizomancy, subalternation of innumerable doubts, record-of-life, proof of Being, you cannot say nothing ever happens if it will happen RIGHT NOW in front of your eyes.
-H
Thursday, April 9th, 2026
Over the coming days and weeks, I want to update my website frequently and realize my decades-long dream of being a real "webmaster." I'm going on a new journey; I hope you will join me and get some value out of the material presented here, provided, of course, that there will really be any.
Although I've made attempts to start a website several times before, it never quite worked out, either from my being too self-conscious to want to continue, plain shyness, or whatever else, but my feeling is different now. Before, I'd said I wanted to "conquer the Internet" -- like it was a hostile territory, or a place unfamiliar to me -- but in fact, the Internet is something like my home. I have met so many people here, lived so much of my life "online" (whether for good or ill), and after twenty years contemplating the matter I feel ready to begin contributing something to it myself. I will write plainly now; so much for continuing to go on being enigmatic: The greatest personalities in the past all wrote their works in language anyone could understand.
Mars has lately entered the sign of Aries, so let's say today is a good day for an update. Presently, the plan is just to build out a framework and be prolific. Soon, I want to write a good mission statement, maybe something similar to the Yesterweb manifesto and galvanize some fresh enthusiasm for The Future of the Independent Web.
-Hermitage
Introduction
Over the coming days and weeks, I want to update my website frequently and realize my decades-long dream of being a real "webmaster." I'm going on a new journey; I hope you will join me and get some value out of the material presented here, provided, of course, that there will really be any.
Although I've made attempts to start a website several times before, it never quite worked out, either from my being too self-conscious to want to continue, plain shyness, or whatever else, but my feeling is different now. Before, I'd said I wanted to "conquer the Internet" -- like it was a hostile territory, or a place unfamiliar to me -- but in fact, the Internet is something like my home. I have met so many people here, lived so much of my life "online" (whether for good or ill), and after twenty years contemplating the matter I feel ready to begin contributing something to it myself. I will write plainly now; so much for continuing to go on being enigmatic: The greatest personalities in the past all wrote their works in language anyone could understand.
Mars has lately entered the sign of Aries, so let's say today is a good day for an update. Presently, the plan is just to build out a framework and be prolific. Soon, I want to write a good mission statement, maybe something similar to the Yesterweb manifesto and galvanize some fresh enthusiasm for The Future of the Independent Web.
-Hermitage
Current Plans:
- Let go and be creative