In case you signed my guestbook and dropped a question or a simple "hi", my replies can be found here.
Thank you, pempt <3
Hi, Jan! It's not my certificate that expired but that of Yesterweb (my capsule's hoster). I usually ignore it by now because Yesterweb issues short-lived certs they constantly forget about but I'll mail seapunk to let them know about it.
Glad to hear you're into retro computing AND vinyls!
I didn't know that I needed to read something like this until now. You see, oz, I was starting to slide into a slump not just because of my additional areas but also after learning more about some very prominent researchers from Germany that can get away with blatant conflicts of interests (such as entologists letting Bayer sponsor one of their congresses) whilst bemoaning "climate change", "Insektensterben", whatever dramatic buzzword ends up being picked up by our press uncritically to later bash any critic that isn't an easy target like some random farmer with less than 10,000 hectares of farmland. It is this kind of dishonesty that takes a toll on my mental and physical state, despite also being my primary motivation for my amateur studies which I have to keep free of exact coordinates and location names for the sake of not attracting reckless tourists. (My local people already tend to be reckless enough, to be honest, and I'll elaborate on this in full soon.)
I'm not exaggerating when I say that your words have given me the motivation boost I started to need to continue my observations. I do not make any money off this kind of stuff and do not want to; if this inspires you go outside and observe *your* local flora and fauna (and hyperfixate on whatever catches on your interest; butterflies, spiders, mushrooms, really old trees, doesn't matter), I'm happy to share the joy and sheer fascination the very existence of "nature" and just learning and discovering in general. Thank you <3
Hi back to you, Erica, and thank you for helping me beat Find Mii II <3
Thank you for your kind words, maera!
Thank you, anon.ymous! I still am a bit criticial of it due to none of the ASCII art belonging to me – while I do give credit and want to share those beautiful pieces as intended, I still have not gotten around to improve my own ASCII art, which has been untouched for months. Perhaps this is going to motivate me to give it another try and share my art with the rest of Geminispace!
Greetings to Lera and thanks for signing my guestbook! To answer your question: No, none of the ASCII art hosted on my capsule is mine and I mostly copied them from various ASCII archives on the "big web". The only art I customized is the "header art" on my index page, which originally only consisted of three stars.
Unfortunately, not all artworks were shared with watermarks. I've kept those with initials and names intact and even added some names to the caption (yeah, I also just noticed that I forgot to add the mandatory alt text to the art on my guestbook, I apologize) but those without are impossible to track down at this point, as most art is from the 90's/early-2000's. Naturally, artists of any uncredited ASCII art are free to reach out to me, so I can include the typical initials or even a link to their social media or homepage, if desired.
Greetings back to Stefan, the first guy that signed my guestbook!