A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Sorry if this is way late, but I was pointed to this:
For the record, I did not check with deb, to see if she ever finally got it. Those comments by me were based only on what I saw in thread. Deb doesn't come here much any more, and I didn't want to drag her into something, so for all I know, she got a synopsis. I just never saw it in GWW.
No synopsis. He never sent it. Claimed he had, but it never got to my email. I wondered about it then, but frankly, my own suspicions had nothing to do with whether or not he was "real"; I find I don't much care, since whoever or whatever he was, he was funny and sharp-edged in the only place I was still posting at b.org in the past year.
I wondered if he'd remembered that I don't read much scifi or fantasy, and was afraid I'd roll my eyes at it. Which is silly - I wouldn't have, not to him, not to anyone.
I have no clue if this one of these cases Allyson writes about in her book - that was the Penlind person, yes? I have trouble believing it, just because the mind boggles. Who in HELL has time to stage something that whack?
Anyway. Hoping everyone's having a good new years.
I don't post my picture online, have in the past flaked out of planned meet-ups, post under multiple pseudonyms and email addresses throughout the web, decline to tell you my real name and address, and if you managed to find my unlisted phone numbers would discover that one was a New Mexico number and one was an Indianapolis number, neither of which are where I (claim to) live. I have deliberately avoided being visible on the web and am not, with the exception of my company. I am shy and have not met most of you and have never called any of you. Well, okay, except Steph, 'cause I needed directions to Graeters. Very important. I did meet some of you and some of you do know my name and company and where my house is. But I find lots of what we have under discussion here still falls under plausible deniability for me. There's also lots that remains inexplicable and problematic.
Thank you for posting this, Liese. Good to remember that we are all only giving what we chose to here and online.
I hope we continue to communicate with each other and relate to each other regardless.
We are all optimistic on that point, I think. I mean, I really hope we do, but the past couple of days have been ugly on a lot of sides.
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It's sad. There was definitely a poster named Gus. He posted. Many of us interacted. Now maybe the things he said about himself were true and maybe they weren't. Many people are focusing on this because they want something verifiable about his life and death. I - personally, very personally - don't give a damn about whether he lied about his life. But I do care about whether or not the person posting, that I had an online posting relationship with, is really dead or not. And finding that out? Requires finding things out. It's viciously circular.
Liese, am I crazy, or were you at the first F2F? Didn't you have some magic cord action in Chicago or am I thinking of someone else?
Yeah, I was. I was tech chick in the days before we had ND. Heh.
I was tech chick in the days before we had ND.
And now ND is our tech chick? Wait a second...
Which I suppose makes me more connected than the majority of posters here who don't attend that sort of event. It was a fairly significant stretch for me to turn up, though. I guess all I'm saying is, it's not that unusual for someone in an online community not to be known in the flesh.
And now ND is our tech chick? Wait a second...
Hee. Eighth inch to split RCA with quarter-inch adapters, baybee.
(I would like everyone to admire the restraint I just exhibited in not making that pornier with the addition of the genders involved in the cable ends.)
I am watching the repeat of Numbers and they are all highly emotional and hurt and upset and snarling the hell at each other and anyone because no one can figure out how to *fix* the issue at hand and it pains them... There are resemblances.
