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January 18, 2005
Corrections, TCC, and Languages
First, I want to apologize to everyone for the size of the last post. I used MovableType’s “cut” equivalent, but apparently either LiveJournal is too smart for it, or MovableType is too stupid to do that kind of thing in the feed. Either way, it didn’t help. People visiting the site instead have no idea what I’m talking about, and that’s good.
Second, I want to clarify this statement for Schlake:
Schlake will happily put you on his friends list if you simply put him on your friends list. Since LiveJournal is a game, and your friends list does not represent reality, you should be willing to do that. To prove the point, I’ve added you to my friends list. It’s just a list.
I call LiveJournal a game because it is a game and it should be treated as a game. I was a big proponent of Slashdot for a few years, until I realized it was a game too. The difference is that people on LiveJournal play in much the same way that radio personalities play—for listeners, called “friends” here, and by the interest factor of what they have to say. The main differences are that there are a lot of different ways to play on LiveJournal besides being “shocking” and a lot of people playing on LiveJournal don’t realize it’s a game.
I consider Schlake more of a friend now than I ever did before I knew him on LiveJournal. In fact, I would call him a new friend. But there is no relationship between my LJ friends list and the set of people I consider my friends—other than that by virtue of being my friend I am more interested in what you have to say, which is the real purpose of the friends list. But still, it’s just a list. Friends are friends online or off, it’s just a completely different concept than the LJ friend.
TCC Conspiracy Club / Community
I’ve heard a rumor that Schlake is going to start a TCC LJ community. If he doesn’t, I’d like to start a mailing list for it. That would of course be contingent on Bill explaining how to set up a mailing list to me (again).
I was surprised today to learn that Jarrod considered my little flame to my new LJ-buddy Matt to be full of the kind of constructive criticism that the people in charge of the TCC should be aware of, because it was written to be a flame and to get out the anger and whatnot I have towards the institution. That’s not to say that I don’t think things need to change or that I take back what I said, so much as to say that the intended audience for what I said was not Topliff, Piworunas & company. I’m under the impression my comments were ignored anyway, because Ray said we should use some online suggestion box instead, but I can’t say that with certainty.
So, what I’d like to do instead is to collect ideas, big and small, that could be used to rework the TCC, and then bring them to a variety of destinations. A TCC community or mailing list would be ideal. (Ball in your court, Schlake)
Languages
I wanted to mention that I considered yesterday a very lucky day, because I got to use these languages:
- REALbasic
- SQL
- Ruby
- Python
- C
That’s in order of amount, and also in order of rarity, by coincidence. As a language freak, I have to say I’m pretty happy to have a job I can use so many in.
Posted by FusionGyro at January 18, 2005 09:58 PM
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