Peter Weir

To find out what I'm up to right now, you can look at the Italy webpage Andrew and I are keeping: http://dumpy.ath.cx/italy

You have reached Peter Weir's website. This is my first attempt at using HTML to create a website. If there is not much of interest here, please forgive me, and check back later. I am following the instructions provided by Yahoo GeoCities (they are also providing the space for my page) available online at http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/geo/ghtml/index.html . So far it has provided my only instruction on use of HTML.

I think I just successfully created a link and a paragraph break. This could become a meta-live self-reflexive program, so I will officially stop commenting on my procedure as I proceed. I find myself wanting to break this commitment, so I will label this proposition * and insert a note whenever I ignore it. This last italicized text is from future Peter, that is, I went back and added it after writing something appears (from your perspective) to have been written later (that is, lower on the page.) This convention will be adhered to throughout my site. Also, bolded text such as this is the supremum of meta-state text, that is, the closest to the non-unreality of the non-digital world. For this reason, the passive voice will often be used.

Perhaps I should tell you a little about myself. I am 22 years old, and currently about a week from graduating from UC Berkeley. I am looking for a job. If you have one available, email me. Ignoring *, I lifted the code for this email link from the automatic code produced by http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/ during my first, non-HTML website attempt that I started a few days ago. When I previewed the above link, it looked small, so I deleted some suspicious looking thing about "font size" and now it seems to have worked. I am don't know if the actual link works yet.

Onwards! I can't decide if "Onwards!" should be bold, since it is a continuously held sentiment, even if I did decide to write it in just this location, in the quasi-chronology of the evident order of this site. Aha! I have just had a great idea: I have used the Macintosh program Grab to take a picture of my screen. This is an efficient means of capturing the time-independent quality of the sentiment "Onwards!" as well as the meta-sentiments surrounding (in time) "Onwards!" , ""Onwards!"", """Onwards!""" and so on. Hence, I attempt to sidestep the infinite recursion brought about by the creation of an exposition on the act of creation by resorting to a new medium. This is the picture:

If I could bold pictures, I would now add a bolded picture of this picture-of-my-picture, to stimulate to the reader's mind as to another possible infinite regress:

Actually, this might not need to be bold. If the pictures are not too unclear, you can see that I took them before typing "Aha! I have just had a great idea . . ." In order to simulate as accurately as possible the actual creative process. Onwards! Trouble has struck (yes, proposition * is still being ignored) these pictures are too big. I do not have a picture editing program so this will have to wait. Look for italicized text here in the future. Well, I didn't need a picture editing program after all.

This website, I need no tell you, is a work in progress. If you are getting bored, click here to skip to the bottom of the page. If you somehow got here and want to start from the beginning, click here to get back to the top.