How to cook soup, by the late Dean Allen: "First, you need some water. Fuse two hydrogen with one oxygen and repeat until you have enough. While the water is heating, raise some cattle. Pay a man with grim eyes to do the slaughtering, preferably while you are away. Roast the bones, then add to the water. Go away again. Come back once in awhile to skim. When the bones begin to float, lash together into booms and tow up the coast. Reduce. Keep reducing. When you think you have reduced enough, reduce some more. Raise some barley. When the broth coats the back of a spoon and light cannot escape it, you ... joshwithers.blog

@joshua thank you for this. Dean was an inspiration and I still wear the Textpattern t-shirt he sent me. Om’s tribute is worth rereading on this spring evening. L

@antonzuiker I think a lot about how my digital footprint and my legacy would survive after I'm gone, Dean's is still strong. @manton when a Micro Blog user dies, what's the process? Does the blog eventually go away because the bill isn't paid?

@joshua @antonzuiker I also think about this a lot. As long as a blog has ever been paid, we keep hosting it indefinitely even when it expires.

@manton Wow

@manton @joshua - @Dave (and others) call this 'future-safing' our sites. I've thought about this, too, not only to keep my writing online but to keep the family email access that uses the domain.