SDF's gopher server is presently down. It was up earlier
today, and I'm guessing it will be back up shortly. Still,
it is interesting to note how much of the gopher world is
not available when SDF is down. For what I read/follow, it
is significant.

Jandal mentioned in his microphlog that someone in person
noted that they had read his gopher post[1]. That is a
sign that he's hanging out with an excellent crowd! I have
mentioned gopher to several people, with no uptake. There
is a small discussion/philosophy group that I'm a part of,
and I posted some notes from it here on gopher, then shared
a link with that group (a gopher proxy link, of course) but
even then there was no interest. At least not that I know
of. You'd think a group of people interested in philosophy
would dig the idea of gopher...

Mijk recently (in the past few weeks) added a phlog and
some other content. He talked about pruning apple trees in
the cold[2]. I live in an area that used to be covered in
apple orchards, back in the early 1900's. Some of the trees
are still around, mostly in the back yards of the families
that settled the area. They're big trees, and when I drive
past them recently I've been thinking "those really could
use a pruning..."

Now I need to spend some time reading Mijk's story/start
that he posted around the same time.

[1] gopher://grex.org/0/~jandal/microphlog
[2] gopher://grex.org/0/~mijk/phlog/cold-prune