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What is the purpose of tenured professors if not to retain a living thread to the not-so-distant past?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:26 PM
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Doesn't he have an assistant or something? Email to him or her.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:28 PM
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Good idea. There's a building secretary.

...out-of-office reply from her. Hmm.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:35 PM
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What was the last year in which "I don't have an email address" was an ethically acceptable thing to say, I wonder? 2004?


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:36 PM
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He's not even really a geezer. I just looked up his photo and figured out who I'm dealing with. Maybe in his 50s.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:37 PM
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2,3 validates the behavior. Write a scathing e-mail to the dean and send him a paper copy.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:37 PM
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3: Depends on context. It's still completely reasonable for anyone whose job does not provide computer access.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:38 PM
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He signed up to be part of a group that meets with students. Guess how every part of this is being organized?

You're faced with this situation and think "what a royal pain in the ass this makes my life". Whereas I would think "Sounds like he's going to miss a lot of the meetings."


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:38 PM
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I still don't have a cell phone.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:38 PM
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The head of my firm doesn't have a computer, and has less than no interest in learning to use one, but he's 83, so I tend to think that's allowed. He does have an assistant who prints out his messages and types/sends his replies for him, so it's possible for people to conduct business with him over email.


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:39 PM
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He's supposed to set up meetings with his group of students, and they keep asking me what they should do, since he hasn't been in touch, and they should have started meeting already.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:39 PM
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I still don't have a cell phone.

How come?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:40 PM
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11: why is this your responsibility? I'm confused. Can you just tell them to go knock on his office door?


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:43 PM
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9: But what do you fiddle with?! Wait. Don't answer that.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:44 PM
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He does have an assistant who prints out his messages and types/sends his replies for him

This is common among very old lawyers, especially those who never really even learned how to type.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:44 PM
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I'm the official instructor for a course which is basically "Book club!" These four are in his group this month. They've stopped by his office, emailed, etc, but haven't gotten ahold of him. They're supposed to meet four times and write a paper, and they get a grade for each group.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:45 PM
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I wouldn't have a cell phone if it weren't required by my work, or if I had to pay for it myself. I hate talking on the phone, and do as little as possible.

OTOH, having the internet in my back pocket is great.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:47 PM
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Jammies' dad types with two fingers, which totally cracks me up because he's a fancy oil executive.

This is the best part: when he needs to capitalize a letter, he uses one hand and types caps lock, the letter, and then caps lock again.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:47 PM
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I don't love talking on the phone, but I love being able to meet up with whoever I have plans with, easily. Especially if you're somewhere unfamiliar.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:48 PM
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because he's a fancy oil executive.

Weirdly, I guessed this about Jammie's dad/parents?! (In my mental narrative of how Jammies must have gotten his name. Maybe I am all wrong!)


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:49 PM
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I use about seven minutes a month on my voice plan.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:49 PM
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Mostly stubborn curmudgeonliness, at this point. But originally because I don't like talking on the phone and *really* don't like being disturbed when I'm busy daydreaming or driving or grocery shopping with my iPod on and am unwilling to pay a multinational telecom conglomerate a big pile of money every month for the privilege. Also, I've vacationed with the husbands of my wife's sisters and noticed that they share this trait with Roberta that if something crosses their mind that they feel they need to relate (which happens approximately constantly), they start dialing. It was like vacationing in a Verizon retail store.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:51 PM
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22 to 12.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:51 PM
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I hate to be obvious, but does he have voicemail? Call and leave a message.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:52 PM
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21 goes for me as well.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:52 PM
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that they share this trait

"They" being her sisters.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:53 PM
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Weirdly, I guessed this about Jammie's dad/parents?! (In my mental narrative of how Jammies must have gotten his name. Maybe I am all wrong!)

I'm impressed! What's your narrative? (The narrative is almost certainly wrong because the biological father named him, and the adoptive father is the fancypants.)


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:54 PM
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heebie's going to feel bad when she finds out he died in his office two weeks ago.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:54 PM
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The problem with not having a cell phone is that pay phones no longer exist.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:55 PM
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24: I did that earlier, and haven't gotten a call back. I've tried him here and there, but haven't left a second message.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:55 PM
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They've stopped by his office, emailed, etc, but haven't gotten ahold of him.

This plus 24 (which is obvious) makes it sound like he's just uninterested in participating. If he won't return calls or visitors, there's no reason to think he would reply to an email, even if he used email.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:55 PM
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Maybe he knows how much time the rest of us waste online and wants no part of it.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:55 PM
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I took a seminar in 2004 with a guest professor who was 70-something and had just started using email. He would type the date at the top of the message body, just as if he were writing a letter.


Posted by: Blume | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:58 PM
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27: Ha! Well, it was something along the lines of oil exec/petroleum engineer stationed in Middle Eastern country ends up digging the name and passing it on. I have no real idea why I decided this!


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:58 PM
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but haven't left a second message

I would probably call him again just so that he couldn't claim he'd never gotten your message at all. Do the whole passive-aggressive thing: "Hi, this is heebie-geebie. I left you a message ten days ago, but since I haven't heard back from you, I wanted to make sure you got it. It was about the book club program..." etc.


Posted by: Blume | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:01 PM
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This plus 24 (which is obvious) makes it sound like he's just uninterested in participating.

Right, but he signed up, chose a book, and four students have read that book and need to do some work and get a grade.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:02 PM
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Well, it was something along the lines of oil exec/petroleum engineer stationed in Middle Eastern country ends up digging the name and passing it on.

Nope! Named after Jamaal Wilkes, some basketball player.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:03 PM
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35 is probably a good idea. I actually only found out that he doesn't use email today, so the phone calls have all been today. But I'll leave another message on Monday, because I assume this will drag on.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:04 PM
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If this is something that's going to screw over students and that you're nominally responsible for, I'd contact his department chairman or a relevant dean or something (I have no idea how colleges are organized). "I can't get in touch with him, and we need to confirm that he doesn't plan to teach this course he signed up for, and not punish the students who took it."

Make it someone else's problem.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:04 PM
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Question for non-phone people. How do you network and connect with people and get jobs without calling people up? I hate talking on the phone, but I'm constantly being encouraged to be a bit more direct and call people.

HATE. I am very shy about calling people when I'm doing it on behalf of myself and not an organization. But, I need to whatever "get out of my comfort zone" if I'm going to get a new job.

Also, I find networking when transitioning to a new area excruciating. There's a list of people on my alumni website who are willing to talk to people, and I'm meaning to contact them but am somewhat terrified.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:05 PM
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40: email to set up lunch or coffee.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:07 PM
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38: Is Monday not a holiday for you?


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:07 PM
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18.last I had a freshman here who did the same thing (hit caps lock, hit letter, unhit caps lock). My theory was that she learned to type on a phone.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:07 PM
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I will do that.

I also have to deal with some stuff where I have to find out who the right people to talk to at the ABA are, and the info is not obvious on their website. Again, hate talking on the phone.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:09 PM
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42: Nope. In fact, I don't think I've ever gotten Columbus Day off.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:11 PM
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39 is probably the way to go. I'll wait till Monday, just in case he's just not in today, or something.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:12 PM
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27: There are fewer philosophers around here than there used to be, but am I right that this is a Gettier problem on the hoof? Oudemia had a justified true belief that Jammies father was an oil exec, but her reasons were false?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:18 PM
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37: Born Jackson Keith Wilkes.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:20 PM
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48: I did not know that.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:24 PM
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Maybe Jammies Jackie can do a reverse-Jamaal and change his name to that as an adult.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:26 PM
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48: Before he changed his name to Jamaal, he went by Keith, right?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:29 PM
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How do you network and connect with people and get jobs without calling people up?

I've only had two jobs over the past 14 years.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:35 PM
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For the last 3 years my office phone was incomprehensible to me. I could never get a dial tone on it and never figured out how to use the voicemail. It had weird blinking lights whose meaning remained inscrutable to me. People called my cell or used Skype. Maybe a decade from now there won't be any landlines?


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:38 PM
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I've only had two jobs over the past 14 years.

Because of careless dripping.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:42 PM
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51: Yes, you're right of course. UCLA back in the day. I knew he had changed it, and after looking it up, "Jackson" was not quite adding up for me. Mild cognitive impairment for $20 Alex.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:43 PM
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Speaking of people who don't grasp new technology, we had a billing clerk who was only 24 and yet he would print out all the emails for matters where he had to complete a task and would then throw out the paper when he completed the taste. He didn't last long.

He also through that the "print screen" process meant printing a page and using the scanner to create a pdf of the printed page.


Posted by: LizSpigot | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:45 PM
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56: Try to get him to hold the screen of a laptop to the bed of a scanner to print screen.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:49 PM
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Does it seem like people are getting worse on the phone, despite everyone carrying one around with them all the time? I've always hated talking on the phone, especially if it wasn't going to involve any sex at some future point, but it seems like more and more of the people I talk to on the phone are just as reticent and awkward as me. Hmph.

At the stock brokerage we had quite a few brokers who refused to use email, and made their assistants handle everything. Also, in every large branch office, there seemed to be one superannuated broker whose routine consisted of coming in promptly at 8, saying hello to everyone, glancing over the WSJ, and then putting his head down on his desk and sleeping until lunch, after which he would come back to the office for maybe one brief meeting, and then leave before 3. Nice work if you can get it.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:54 PM
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Scanners generate beautiful images.

http://www.katinkamatson.com/


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:54 PM
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How do you network and connect with people and get jobs without calling people up?

I'm not a wizard at this myself, but sometimes attending seminars and conferences where there are people to bump into can work, and then you can bridge your way to a conversation through a follow-up e-mail or two.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 2:03 PM
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For the last 3 years my office phone was incomprehensible to me. I could never get a dial tone on it and never figured out how to use the voicemail. It had weird blinking lights whose meaning remained inscrutable to me. People called my cell or used Skype. Maybe a decade from now there won't be any landlines?

My current department doesn't provide office phones at all, as part of their response to the dismal UC budget situation.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 2:15 PM
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How do you network and connect with people and get jobs without calling people up?

So, I just networked my way into basically my dream job, and urple's 41 (email for lunch or coffee) was how I did it. Once or twice it was "email for phone call for lunch." I would feel very odd making an unsolicited phone call, even to someone I know, about job-search-related activities.


Posted by: emdash | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 2:16 PM
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61: yup, they took my phone a couple of years ago. I don't miss it at all, though there have been a couple of occasions when it would have been useful.


Posted by: Von Wafer | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 2:23 PM
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I don't miss it at all

Me neither! In fact, I expect the not-having to be something I miss next year.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 2:26 PM
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I would feel very odd making an unsolicited phone call, even to someone I know, about job-search-related activities.

All these networking advice materials out there will suggest that you call people. I can only assume the advice was written pre-email.


Posted by: Blume | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 2:27 PM
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stationed in Middle Eastern country ends up digging the name

I once knew an Algerian guy named Djamel who didn't like me very much. He liked me even less after I accidentally (but persistently) called him "Jamaal", because apparently that means "camel" in Algerian Arabic. (So it was explained to me by another North African, anyway, who couldn't suppress the snorting and giggling.)


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 2:31 PM
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[It may be the case] that this guy [is hard to work with].


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 3:29 PM
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So, I just networked my way into basically my dream job

Congratulations emdash!


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 3:34 PM
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I am honestly curious how those of you who deal with sensitive or confidential information live without regular phone calls. I use e-mail like you wouldn't believe, but there is a substantial minority of topics that I would never put in writing no way no how. (And many of them are not specific to my job -- I'm thinking, for example, of a confidential conversation with a board member of an organization that I'm nominally a member of, about a staff member of that organization.)


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 4:00 PM
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67: you have a confidence in your pseudonymity I find both laudable and terrifying.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 4:03 PM
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69: I use a dedicated classified network for that. Only Bradley Manning has figured out how to fuck me over.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 4:27 PM
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I mostly find it terrifying in this particular case.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 4:28 PM
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71: of course I mean: for notifying people of the double secret results of their double secret probations


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 4:50 PM
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70, 72: Sadly, I agree with the two-named boys on this, and as not-your-counsel I advise you to redact.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 5:21 PM
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73: My "double-secret" in the other thread without seeing the double "double secret" in this thread.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 5:24 PM
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47: Would be a bit of a borderline case, I think, because her belief was arguably not all that justified to begin with, i.e. her reasons were weak.


Posted by: One of Many | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 5:42 PM
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Should I really redact? I mean, this guy can't check his fucking email.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:11 PM
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That's what he wants you to think.


Posted by: One of Many | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:17 PM
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I would. Whoever told you would be six kinds of screwed if it got back to the guy.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:17 PM
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And your anonymity is worse than mine, which is saying a lot.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:21 PM
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77: it's not about him, really. People tend to get very upset when that kind of news gets out through the wrong channels at the wrong time. Can lead to more work for a certain overworked segment of our commentariat, etc.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:24 PM
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It's redacted-ish.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:25 PM
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80: Is it really? Like, I drop more personal clues than the average bear?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:26 PM
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77: Not *him*, but other more Internet-savvy people who might have knowledge of the situation or at least enough to put two and two together.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:27 PM
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And come up with five.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:28 PM
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In some ways I feel so distantly located on the edge of the land down here sometimes, and it feels unfathomable that anyone would discover my secret news tether to the rest of the world. This is probably because I'm naive and haven't had enough bad luck yet.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:29 PM
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Should it be completely redacted?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:29 PM
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Speaking of geezers, or rather, of the kids these days, word is that one of the banes of high school disciplinary policies these days (along the lines the old-skool "No chewing gum in class, no passing notes in class") is: kids texting in class with the phone in their pocket, one hand in pocket, texting one handed. In the pocket.

Apparently this looks sort of like they're either jingling silent change or masturbating or signing to themselves.

REALLY? People can do that? Text one-handed, in a pocket, without looking? I'm stunned.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:29 PM
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83: Woman math prof at a pretty closely described geographical location gets you most of the way. When you throw in the name of the children's book you just published...


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:30 PM
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Apparently this looks sort of like they're masturbating.

Which, to be fair, would also present disciplinary problems.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:32 PM
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To be fair, I've been pretty cautious about keeping the name of the book unassociated with Heebie-Geebie. But there are probably a dozen other identifiers.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:38 PM
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REALLY? People can do that? Text one-handed, in a pocket, without looking? I'm stunned.

People can type without looking at a keyboard, can't they?

Now, reading texts without looking, that's tougher.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:39 PM
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83: Aside from people who use their actual name, I'd say you drop the most clues.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:39 PM
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Also you've mentioned being the only person in the universe with your first name.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:41 PM
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I have gotten embarrassingly busted by saying things about people who didn't know about the blog, who happened to follow a link to the relevant thread and recognize me from biographical scraps in that thread. (It's actually stuff I would have said to their faces without meaning to be hostile in the slightest, but they were really offended.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:41 PM
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Heebie, I'd redact the whole comment.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:41 PM
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I'm really not worried about online people figuring out who I am; I'm vaguely worried about real life people figuring out who else I am.

My big fear used to be that everyone would find out how much time I waste. But since Facebook, it's become an established trope that everyone wastes as much time online as they want to, so it's not a character flaw in quite the same way.

Also I've said some hugely incautious personal things, but I have a deep trust in the vastness of the archives, and the boringness of wading through the archives looking for incautious things someone said one day.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:44 PM
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People can type without looking at a keyboard, can't they?

Yeah, I know, and people can play the piano without looking; and obviously the kids are doing this, so it's doable. It just seems a step beyond touch-typing, in which the keys are actually roughly fingertip sized, and you've got those little raised dot thingies on the F and the K keys so you can keep your fingers in the right place.

Anyway, it's like a whole new ballgame.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:45 PM
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I guess the raised dot is on the J key, actually. I had to look at the keyboard.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:48 PM
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95: Yeah, I got busted by RL, steakosphere friends who I hadn't realized ever read a blog -- they happened across a link to comment 300 or so in some thread where I was talking about them. (In a manner that I really failed to realize was offensive, I feel the need to say.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:49 PM
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98: non-touchscreen telephones typically have a raised bump on (I believe) the five.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:55 PM
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Do you all have a statute of limitations on stupid comments? Like, a personal opinion on how far back in time it takes before a comment is really probably permanently buried?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 6:56 PM
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101: Makes sense.

Actually, mine has a raised number 5. Huh. Never noticed that before.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:00 PM
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I've never been able to stop with stupid comments for long enough to care about that.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:00 PM
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87: as Stormcrow's attorney -- and as someone who's seen, firsthand, how something sort of like this situation can go very badly awry for all parties involved -- I am all but begging you to completely redact that comment. Seriously, change the name at the bottom of the comment to Pauly Shore and make a fart joke, heebie. Please, do it for Stormcrow.


Posted by: Von Wafer | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:01 PM
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105: BTW, did you send that letter to my neighbor on the right-of-way dispute? 'Cuz he and I kinda got into it tonight.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:09 PM
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91: I think you've posted it on your other blog, which is linked from here. I'm probably an unusually compulsive link-clicker, but that's not much separation.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:09 PM
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Hmm, I trust your memory over mine, but at some point I had the thought that I shouldn't.

The comment in question has now been diluted past the point of danger.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:10 PM
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102: never. You can google stupid shit I said on the internet in 1991.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:11 PM
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107: Actually, I just googled your site for it, and I think you're right -- you must have mentioned the name in an email. But still, the other biographical facts plus "just published a children's book" even without the title, is going to be unique, probably.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:13 PM
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To be unbearably earnest, having Unfogged where everything I say is understood the way you all generally understand it is super important and valuable to me. If the price is the risk of being discovered, it's a risk worth taking for me.

(That said, I don't need to leave super stupid comments dangling about. I'm just talking generally.)


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:14 PM
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Yeah, when I realized I was wide open, I thought about it for a bit and decided I really didn't care that much. I'm not spilling secrets here, mostly.


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110: The title was all over facebook. I felt like I had to promote the hell out of the stupid thing, or else I was betraying my mother, or something. I passionately hated all that self-promotion.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:15 PM
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111: I value it as a safe space to discuss the specific details of handling my penis.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:16 PM
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Today Jammies clarified that he dribbles all over his pants all the time. Just not due to the specific zipper yoga that Moby was describing.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:19 PM
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I enjoy the fact that I could use trigonometry to describe those problems.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:22 PM
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115 is the best follow-up ever.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:22 PM
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Also, I realized today that I cannot recall how to deal with logs and exponents. I just forgot without knowing I forgot.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:24 PM
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118: depends how much your pants cost.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:25 PM
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118: Check the blackboard, Moby.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:47 PM
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That site is amazing.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:50 PM
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Someone should tell the porn makers to add "natural log" references.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 7:52 PM
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Wait. This started as a "natural log" joke. I should maybe sleep.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:04 PM
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Got to get some rest because we are buying a new toilet tomorrow.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:21 PM
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And the Cards beat the Phils. Someone make sure Witt is okay.


Posted by: Von Wafer | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:29 PM
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You aren't the boss of me.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 8-11 5:42 AM
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