The end of this blog

The time has finally come for this blog to die a gruesome, hilarious death. Yes, the theme of deathjestr.blogspot.com, when I created it, was quite appropriate for writing satire, tales of RIT trying to kill me with their cafeteria food, stories of me eating pizza out of the garbage, maniacal rants about wikipedia articles, etc. However, one time when this theme really does become inappropriate is when I start posting my own political opinions - especially opinions about gun legislation. Political rants seem to be something I've been writing a lot more lately and while I know the form doesn't change the content of my arguments or anything, I also know that people never see things that way. Form is important to people - people always pay attention not only to the logic of what's being said, but also to the perceived credibility of the speaker, and people who don't know me are likely to become confused when they see a black page with my freehand drawing of a skull wearing a jester hat and such. In fact, I'll be quite unsurprised if I one day find out that this blog has landed me on a terrorist watch list. Hard to accuse a guy with no criminal record - and who has never even gotten a speeding ticket - of terrorism but I suppose anything is possible nowadays.

So anyway, this will likely be the last post ever made to this blog - but surely its legend will live on for eternity. Although, as with all great legends, Google may decide to delete it because of inactivity. It will (eventually) be replaced by something much cooler and fancier. In fact I'd really like to be able to do more than just edit CSS to change the way things look - It'd be awesome if I had the freedom to do things like play with javascript when I felt like it or to run my own CGI scripts without having to set up some awkward jury-rigged garbage where I host the script on www.cs.rit.edu and put the contents in a frame. Unfortunately, being able to have all the freedom I want without paying for hosting just might require running a web server out of my apartment. Don't laugh. I'll do it if I have to.