Mission Statement

I've had a lot of different web presences in the past. My internet identity started out with a Geocities account back when they assigned web addresses based on the idea of communities with streets and house numbers -- I was on 3976 Maze street, Times Square.

Or something.

After I grew bored of working with frames and bullshit banner ads (and when the technology became available) I eventually got myself a Livejournal and fully bought in to the emo-teenager lifestyle. I never wrote poems on my Chucks (I never even owned Chucks to begin with), but I did write long diatribes about how Terribly Horribly Awful my life was.

Mmmmmmm, diatribes.

In college, I finally bite the bullet and bought space on a REAL server and a domain name -- keatnet.net. I had (and still have, to be honest) grandiose plans for that address, but instead of the Awesome Keaton-based Community I dreamed, it became more of a storage facility -- holding little gadgets and files for me as well as some subdomains for my various hobbies.

I wanted to start a new blog there, with full control over the features and the layout and everything... but come on -- a domain name based on a take-off of my NAME? Who DOES that?

Oh. Right. I did.

Again.

Well, this one has a history, at least. Last year I wrote a column for The Daily Cardinal called, you guessed it, Miller's Genuine Drafts. It was at least partially funny and so here I am again, writing some random shit into the ether.

There are, in fact, "deeper" reasons. I'm not sure what direction I'm going to take this piece of my online identity. I've been following politics very closely and it'd certainly be nice to have an outlet for some of those thoughts that isn't Big Orange or the comments section of CNN. On the other hand, the election is soon and who knows how much interest I will keep after then -- I imagine I'll still follow politics but then again I used to be obsessed with the Starcraft ladder.

There are also other things that happen in my life that I can certainly use an outlet for. Though I'm pretty sure divulging Trade Secrets will get me fired faster than you can say "what's in your wallet, a pink slip?" but day-to-day tales of the Office life are probably kosher.

Probably.

So it'll be a mix, a range, a variety, if you will. Some days you'll get the politics, others I'll be detailing my experiences trying to make a decent meal without spending hours at the stove.

And I'm sure it won't be too long before I'm off discussing the pleasures of a good ironing.

Tonight I'm in a political mood, but I'm not going to go off into some liberal manifesto right now -- it's coming, I assure you -- so I will leave you with this.