LOREN: the person


i'm a molecular biologist by training and an ordinary guy by sheer force of will. i was born in an active fault zone in the mid 1990s and now i live in connecticut. my favorite color changes a lot but i keep coming back to seafoam green, even though it's not quite the color of sea foam (which is very cool). i like to take photos of bugs.


i am a huge fan of my boyfriend, ben, who is an artist. he made the painting of me featured to the left (or above, if you're viewing this on your phone). we see a lot of music together (mostly free jazz and noise), and ben often does live drawings of the musicians. i maintain another site, drawingsformusic.org, to facilitate simultaneous looking and listening. you can buy postcards and prints of ben's watercolors online, and zines if you ask one of us, probably.


myriad ways to contact me can be found here, but be warned that i may take ages to repsond.

time: UTC-05

mood: The current mood of ribose at www.imood.com

latest status:





RIBOSE: the website


this site is an exercise in documentation / creativity / sharing / ???


a personal space and digital collection.
created in late september, 2022.


ribose is a sugar molecule, most famous for its role in the backbone of RNA.


ribo.zone is a play on ribosome.


buttons:
to see the buttons of some sites i enjoy, visit the links page.

Site map


News feed

To-do list


pages:

  • history + philosophy of science page
  • art page? music page?
  • move video games from media rec page to their own page?

housekeeping:

  • make contact page responsive to window size
  • reorganize and compress images
  • make a favicon
  • clean up all instances of inline css (sorry!)

Changelog


2023/03/21

  • added a painting of me to my bio (thank you ben <3) /info.html
  • made a bug garden page for 32bit.cafe's spring event! /bugs/spring23/index.html

2023/02/17

  • new page for the clay models i've been making lately at /clay/index.html

2023/02/09

  • rearranged things, added stamps /info.html

2023/02/07

  • custom domain! ribose.neocities.org is now ribo.zone :-)

2023/01/22

  • new info hub /info.html
    • replaces about.html, changelog.html, and sources.html
    • new sections (site): sitemap and news feed
    • new widgets (about): imood and status.cafe

2023/01/14

  • added organisms + molecules /microscopy/index.html

2023/01/12

  • new site buttons /links.html

2023/01/01

  • first blog post! /blog.html
    • no link on home page yet because i am shy

2022/12/31

  • mecha page is live! /mecha/index.html

2022/12/29

  • new site buttons /links.html

2022/12/24

  • new organisms /microscopy/index.html

2022/12/21

  • new page about the little guys /microscopy/index.html

2022/12/20

  • new font everywhere! (it's the one used by TI calculators)
    • thank you int10h.org
    • this font is much wider than the last one i used, so i adjusted div widths on most pages
  • games and more music and a proper intro section in the bug zone /bugs/index.html

2022/12/15

  • desk and contents now resize based on window width! (woooo) /home/index.html

2022/12/11

  • sitemap/nav now viewable on all screen sizes /home/index.html

2022/12/10

  • page navigation menu for mobile screens /home/index.html
  • made my first 88x31 site button /links.html

2022/12/09

  • my other site, drawingsformusic, is now responsive to window size (even mobile!)

2022/12/08

  • made a links page! /links.html

2022/12/07

  • general housekeeping!
    • added div border styling to /style.css and removed it from inline css
    • made outgoing links open in a new tab
    • deleted defunct pages /home.html + /bugs.html

2022/12/05

  • guestbook and mail sections added /contact.html

2022/12/03

  • new bug page is live! /bugs/index.html

2022/11/27

  • updated all (?) links to direct to new homepage
  • added image sources for new homepage /sources.html
  • moved changelog to its own page (hi) /changelog.html

2022/11/26

  • brand new homepage!! way more fun than the old one /home/index.html

2022/11/22

  • vertically centered on different size windows + screens (woooo) /index.html
  • reduced header size /home.html

2022/11/21

  • new links and gifs /home.html
  • formatted /not_found.html

2022/11/20

  • created /contact.html
  • created /sources.html
  • added links to above pages /home.html

2022/11/16

  • major reformatting /recs.html
    • replaced hotlinked images!!
    • new table format
    • new section breaks
    • new background
  • changed background /index.html

2022/11/15

  • major rework /home.html
    • added changelog (hi)
    • new table format
    • new top banner
    • added drawings for music link
    • changed background
    • changed construction warning
  • moderate rework /about.html
    • added blinkies + stamp
    • changed text from 3rd to 1st person
    • changed background
  • minor formatting /recs.html
  • slowed color change /mantisdance.html

Code + image credit


pages are handmade by me, with help from the following:


texas instruments font from INT10h.org


dithering on all images courtesy of dithermark


interactive molecule viewers are embedded on the microscopy page with 3Dmol.js


where reasonable, i include image sources below the image itself. notable expections are the homepage and various buttons and blinkies, which you can find sources to below.


**if an image is not sourced here or on the page you found it, it is my own photo! this is where i could say "please don't steal" but 1. i couldn't stop you and 2. i do not care all that much. it would be polite to credit me if you use anything i made, though.


images sources: