I'm trying audio blog posts. Enjoy!
Transcript I'm currently in rural Oaxaca in a small village. I'm currently at the weekly farmers market located in "La Plaza" or the town square. Every week there is so many good foods, fresh foods from many vendors.
It's been a great year so far! Lot's of good things have happened. I've overcame a few things. I started my blog again. The little things add up. One of the major events was becoming part of the IndieWeb Community. It's been a great community that is welcoming. I have learned so much from the people in the community and at Homebrew Website Club. Every single one of them has been pretty amazing.
Since it's Send a Friend a Webmention Day, I want to send a webmention to a few people.
You were the first person I interacted with at Homebrew Website Club. He gave me the run down and help me connect the pieces based on the information I knew already. Thanks for being so rad! Your bot trained with your voice is pretty tight alongside your mediasoup-based setup.
Tracy Durnell I really enjoy your style of writing! I have been looking for better ways to express myself through writing and to find my style of blogging, it's inspiring and I enjoy your content. I've been wanting to make the Apple crumb pie. I'm excited to try it soon! If you need some more information on Oaxacan cuisine, I'm your guy!
James G Everything you do is super cool especially the programming language you created! You'll have to try some Coffee (and hot chocolate) from Oaxaca. I really enjoyed this month's IndieWeb Carnival topic.
Benji I love what you are doing with your site. I love the minimalist approach. The Sparkles is so rad! It works beautifully with one of my sites.
gRegor Love I hope you picked the blue shirt! I still haven't seen the movie? Yay or nay? Thank you for pointing me in the right directions when it comes to marking up content in a different language. More of content in different languages coming soon.
Alex Sirac Ton site, Réussir Mes Études est super cool et informatif! J'aime le blog de ton site web principal. You've inspired me to write in French again!
Jo dead.garden Since I love languages, I started looking into toki pona. Thank you so much for sharing this. Hopefully we can speak soon.
Anthony Ciccarello Thank you for helping me out microformats and "likes" and getting that squared away. Every time I see you post about your puppy I immediately want to pet but we haven't broken the virtual-physical barrier yet to pet dogs yet. Any ideas?
Also as a Midwesterner, I saw you have a recipe for Puppy Chow. I will probably be making a batch once I get home.
Colin Walker I'm really digging your site. I also stumbled on your Music and I'm really digging it! I'd love to talk about your music since I am teaching a sound engineering class. I've been making progress on the e-book as well.
Before I jump right into the post. I want to thank Sara Jakša for creating such a great blog post on Sending a Friend a Webmention Day. Thank you for the prompt on How I got into Personal Websites. I've been meaning to write this so this is the perfect time!
I've had a presence since I was a young kid. I've been very fortunate to be around computers since i was three with these interactions been in school.
Having access to computers was game changing for me and has helped me. I would say I signed up for MySpace when I was ten. I know I am such a rule breaker. When I discovered personal websites, my mind exploded . . . metaphorically.
I remember when my parents upgraded from dial-up to DSL. I remember the lady at the phone company explaining all the details of the features included in our internet plan. Something that struck me was the FTP storage space. I thought, "Wait, I can create a my website and have it hosted for free?" This was in 2003 when I started my first personal website. I remember using basic HTML and clip art. I cringe just thinking about it. This was the stepping stone for me building and hosting websites. Using FTP was pretty advanced for an eight year old. I would stay up late just tinkering my site to make it perfect with poor HTML skills. It worked somehow?
I've always wanted to find ways to express myself. Since I was big into computers and tech, I figured I would use the website I built to share the things I enjoyed. I wanted to share who I was as a person. I had an idea who I was but I was still developing.
I would look at other people who would blog and that would make me super gitty. I remember stumbling upon Matt Mullenweb back in 2003 and being inspired by him. He and many others taught me a lot about blogging. Learning by (browsing the internet) doing.
I would create new websites over the years. I couldn't afford to a pay for a website domain because I was eight years old and I wasn't going to ask my parents to spend money on something when I was more than grateful to have a computer and fast internet. I would use any free service I could until I could pay for it on my own.
I would use a site in 2010 called Altervista where I officially used Wordpress for the first time. I made a big leap from HTML to the most popular CMS (of course I had no idea at the time). I decided this was the moment I would start expanding from a basic site to start blogging even if the posts had a few sentences. I used:
Often, I really feel like that 8 year old who was discovering how to build things on the web.
Hello from rural Oaxaca! I've been eating so much food since I got here. There are so many foods I don't get to eat except when in Oaxaca. Food is a very important in my culture. Oaxacan food is probably the best cuisine out there! It is one of the most I might be a little biased, so don't judge me.
I'm definetly over indulging
Here are the things, I've eaten in the last 48 hours.
If you want to know more about Oaxaca, please send me a webmention or email me at hello@lifeofpablo.com.
Currently I'm in Mexico City for the night. I'm on my way to my final destination somewhere in Mexico. This is a place I've gone since I was a young kid. This place isn't the glitz and glamour people imagine when going on vacation. I'm going to a small town in rural Mexico. It's big enough to have a local mom and pop stores or business such as food establishments and weekly farmers markets.
There are things to note that give me a sense of why we are so lucky to have good (relatively) infrastructure in the United States such as good plumbing, and safe water to drink, I'm looking forward to going to this vacation to appreciate living a simple life.
I want to preface that these are not complaints but situations I will simply experience and have previously experienced. There's not point trying to be negative since I know what I am going to encounter. I've done this many times.
Can't drink tap water:
Air Conditioning:
Electricity:
Manually Starting Heating Water:
Since the gas line infrastructure is non existent where I'm staying, we have to rely on tanks of Liquid Propane (LP) which is limited by the amount of LP in the tank and manually sparking the water heater.
Using a portable water heater that you plug into the electricity.
Boil the water on the stove which also uses liquid propane.
Cell Phone Service/Internet Access:
Many people dread the idea to living like this for two weeks. People do this on the daily ! I know this will humble me and learn to appreciate the things I take for granted when I am back home. For now expect me to be disconnected most of the time and live in the moment.
I would love to talk more about my experience!
Off to catch a flight in the morning!
I'll post again during the next two weeks or after the two weeks!
