Your twitter feed would have fooled me too. Spammers are well-known for writing things about La Monte Young's Dorian Blues in G and using the word "recherche." (Non-spammers would say recherché, natch.)
What redfoxtrailshrub said. It would be one thing if you were saying something incredibly nasty or obnoxious, but harmless banter about old Macs and PCs? When did we get twitter police?
Seriously, though, Young's Dorian Blues in G is fantastic. You can get it on Just Stompin': Live at the Kitchen for $75 used.
I was sitting in class about a month ago and the woman sitting next to me turned to the person sitting on the other side of her, then turned her computer screen, which was showing a twitter page, towards him. then asked, "do you know who this is?" Turned out to be my twitter page. And I had an identifiable profile - no last name, no picture of myself, but enough info for people I know to work it out. She then took s picture of me and suggested I use it.
Wow, that guy is pretty special.
I like his comment about how "Your insistence on anonymity, though, makes me reluctant to seriously engage with you." Yes, his bravery at putting his remarkably common name on a Twitter profile without a real picture clearly trumps you and your anonymous name.
There is, to be fair, a lot more identifying information for him, like his current institutional and departmental affiliation. Whatever: I acknowledge that I'm effectively anonymous especially compared to him; I just can't imagine the kind of reaction to that fact that he had.
That guy is a self-important dick.
He is aware of all Twitter conventions.
I get that attitude still on my pseudonymous water blog. "I don't usually answer cowardly anonymous bloggers." "I could take you more seriously if you weren't anonymous."
Really, dude? I've been here for two years. I just wrote about your report, citing pages and doing a long critique where I showed my work. You think I'm just snarking behind a fake name? You can't take that seriously? What more do you need to evaluate a long essay? My name? My academic pedigree? Why?
Well, water blogs are notorious for the cruel comments.
Cold black water dog, make no tears.
My name? My academic pedigree? Why?
Especially outside the US, using intermediaries to disguise the origin of an attack is a fairly rudimentary and quite common academic tactic. An anonymous identity is disposable; ignoring anonymous critics in a contentious, grant-funded (so zero-sum) environment makes perfect sense.
It's an unpleasant conclusion, one to be avoided, but it's a rational position.
An anonymous identity is disposable;
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I've been here for two years.
Continuously maintained pseudonymity is not the same thing as one-shot anonymity. It's just not.
Continuously maintained pseudonymity is not the same thing as one-shot anonymity. It's just not.
True, but people seem to have a hell of a time understanding the difference. Journalists seem to be particularly bad about this.
It's kind of amazing how long that confusion has persisted. It's almost like it serves some people's own interests.
20 goes to a blank page for me. In fact, about half the time now, when I click a link to twitter I see a blank page. What's the deal? Is it because I'm not, myself, twitterfied?
I think you have to be logged in to see a some stuff, but twitter apparently is no longer capable of producing a message telling you that.
Maybe they should get the Library of Congress to send one out for them.
I think you have to be logged in to see a some stuff, but twitter apparently is no longer capable of producing a message telling you that.
No, it happens to me a lot, and if I reload the page, it then works without my having to have logged in.
That happens to me too, but sometimes the page doesn't show unless I log in. (Sometimes I do get a message.)
20 goes to a blank page no matter how many times I reload. Kieran's words of wisdom or bons mots will be forever lost to me.
Imagine a blank page loading into a browser window...forever.
I've always dreamed of having two blank internet pages, one named Twit...
So I just read Ben's whole exchange with this gentleman, and I have one question: why the hell does anyone use Twitter?
34: Because who has the attention span to read Facebook status updates? Sometimes those things go on for, like, 500 goddamn characters!
34: I'm glad to see you're a cranky old man like I am, DS. Why must you use Twitter, kids who are on my lawn, why?