When Lloyd asked me to fill in, I was a bit stumped. Because the con­tent I post to Link Banana is sim­i­lar to the stuff that Lloyd posts, and I already strug­gle to keep that full–I didn’t really want to put that stuff here. I also didn’t really want to ape his style, as I’d almost inevitably have done that poorly.

Gen­er­ously, Lloyd spec­i­fied that I could pub­lish any­thing I thought would be of inter­est. And it was while I was con­sid­er­ing the odd nature of that fact that he and I know each other at all–for those not keep­ing score Lloyd is a Brit who lives in the Nether­lands, I’m an Amer­i­can who lives in Col­orado, we’ve never met in person–that I thought about how dif­fer­ent the inter­net I know and love is from that known to almost all my “real life” friends, those of my sib­lings, par­ents, and pretty much any­one who I share phys­i­cal spaces with on a reg­u­lar basis.

So, if you’ll all allow me, my intent over this week is to explore that “Grand Canyon big” gap and how one could cross it if they so desired. I don’t know that any­thing I man­age to pub­lish here will be as inter­est­ing or valu­able to the Lone Gunman’s read­ers as what Lloyd usu­ally does, but I hope it’ll come close.