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☷: 25 JUNE 07 13:46:15 (Early Boarding Notice)

2007-06-25 13:46:49 by admin in global_status, the hobotrain network (no comments) permalink

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globalstatus follows…

globalstatus:

  • ⎈ net/network: you are here. Updated daily. ToDo: One time personal message (i.e., thanks, regrets, excuses) to everyone who has offered their time to help me test my sites or who has otherwise expressed interest in what I’ve been up to here.

    –TO BE DELETED AFTER 90 DAYS–

    Hi, Friend.

    Thank you for your interest in the hobotrain network. I regret any delays in responding to your questions about what I’ve been up to here, but believe me when I tell you that there has been a fair bit of excitement and upheaval at the restaurant lately—changeover to the summer menu, staffing issues and so on—and for that (and because that’s where I make my money) I’ve been running a little bit behind. But all that’s unimportant now:

    As of today, hobotrain.net/network is online and available.

    As you may or may not know, the hobotrain project began about ten years ago as a traditional literary piece (ink, paper, etc.) which was intended to be a novelization of the journals I’d kept during my travels in South and Southeast Asia (ca. 1990-94 and 1996) and on my couch tours of New York and Los Angeles (ca. 1987-97). In addition to being eager to tell that story, I was, at the time, also very interested in creating a piece that somehow captured the growing sense that I existed at an early but discrete phase in literary history wherein the transition from the printed to the electronic word as the primary material and means for the creation and dissemination of literary works threatened to render me and my writing Weltanschauung obsolete before my career had really begun.

    Like many of my contemporaries, I’d been trying to find ways to link pages, themes and characters together non-linearly so that the book could be read in ways other than cover to cover. For several years I struggled mightily and mainly in longhand with ways in which I might emulate hypertext in a printed context, especially with respect to page navigation; and, also like many of my contemporaries, I ended up no closer to resolving this problem than I had been at the moment of its discovery.

    When I acquired Tuttle’s Corner in December of 2003 and I found myself in the unique position of having to report to work every day, my writing time was immediately and radically curtailed; my flat became a place in which to live and entertain rather than the more familiar place in which I simply slept, bathed and made art; I began spending a lot more time at my computer, and eventually, and out of necessity, I came upon the solution I’m experimenting with now in which the hobotrain network is entirely Web-based, its narrative interwoven among four separate sites:

    - hobotrain.net/network (net/network), which describes the maintenance and status of all of the hobotrain network sites and catalogs changes and additions to their content.

    - tuttlescorner.com (Tuttle’s Corner), which serves both as a graphical interface to net/network and as a receptacle for items which are related to the back-story and the aftermath of the events surrounding the monk’s fall.

    - monkfalls.com (Monk Falls) contains the monk’s journals which are the substantive portion of the hobotrain network narrative as well as its reason for being.

    - postdelete.com (postdelete), which is, among other things, the repository for items which have been deleted or otherwise disincluded from hobotrain network sites.

    Over the next several days, postdelete, Tuttle’s Corner and Monk Falls will be brought online, and while they are readied, their status will be reported upon here.

    Thanks again for taking the time to visit the hobotrain network. I’m glad you could make it.

    Kind regards,

    Tuttle

    –END MESSAGE–

globalstatus continues…

  • ♨ Tuttle’s Corner: fine version dining - by reservation. Updated often.
    • ToDo:
      • Tuttle’s Corner is still password protected. It will be available to view shortly.
  • ✈ Monk Falls: a living fiction. Updated Sundays.
    • ToDo:
      • Monk Falls is still password protected. It will be available to view shortly.
  • ⌦ postdelete.com: hobotrain network out-takes deletions anomalies. Updated as necessary.
    • ToDo:
      • postdelete is still password protected. It will be available to view shortly.

additional notes:

  • Be patient. Early boarding is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s nice to be able to find your seat, stow your bags and settle in in a leisurely way; on the other, opportunities to experience discomfiture and degradation increase in number and by magnitude with every passenger who boards after you. Try to ignore late arrivals, if you must, by keeping your eyes down. And please take the time to read the help pages.


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