How to be a Happy Nerd

[divalea]

Again, Lea, AGAIN:

http://listencomics.blogspot.com/2005/04/how-to-be-happy-nerd.html

RULE! NUMBER! THREE!

3. MESSAGE BOARDS ARE THE DEVIL. A collection of nerds arguing. Or worse, agreeing with each other. Most horrible of all are the creator boards. Watching mediocre talents surround themselves with ranting sycophants is disturbing at best. Watching these guys believe the rants of their sycophants is chilling. Like watching that Powers Booth movie about Jim Jones, without the awesome sunglasses.

And so are LJ comment threads.

Comments

[tinpan.livejournal.com]

But if you really wanna be mean and get yer yaya's out, you could always post the text of the LJ from your email, and let us fall upon it like rabid dogs.

[divalea.livejournal.com]

Naw, that would be too much, "Oh, boo hoo I'm being persecuted."

I'll say this: no one knows ANYONE just from their LJ, or any other part of their web presence. This has been demonstrated to me forcefully both on the giving and receiving ends.
Anne Lamott used to get frustrated that people thought they had a full picture of her life from her book "Operating Instructions", which was about her first year as a single mother.
I get frustrated the same way. It's pretty damn unfair for someone to presume they know my priorities, including the ones I never talk about, from my LJ. Then again, there are things I talk about a LOT, and people seem to miss those, too.
On still another hand, I am pretty much in person as I am online. Including not talking about every freaking thing that happens in my life, being opininated, easy to disappoint and hurt, funny, but also including stuffing my feet in my mouth and then chewing until I reach my hipbones.