whoas long post to follow, sorry! ;D
At 3/21/09 10:24 AM, austinzombie wrote:
http://forvo.com/word/maus/
it's from an awesome anti-nazi graphic novel by that name (I think)
my name isn't from that, though i am a great fan of Spiegelman's works and i own a copy of that book.
i've had this nickname since i was 14. which is quite a while. lol.
i do miss it here a lot. but i did need a break, it had been what, almost 3 years of solid modding? :o anyway, i took a break and started playing games like travian and then some text based rpgs. i read the news a lot too, and followed the election very closely. all that faffing around didn't leave too much time to devote here.
when you take a break, if you let the break wane on too long, it gets harder and harder to come back. never impossible, just daunting. kind of like riding a bicycle, if you will.
when i opened the sirtom topic, of course the first thing that started turning in my head was the social networking angle. it was 2.30a and i was way too, uhhh, tired (yeah) to read all 37 pages, but it started a thought.
i work in the advertising field -- i can assure you that forums like this are definitely considered a social networking venue. why? because you guys are THE perfect people to advertise to. if you look around, the forums are a constantly roiling free advertisement.
then i started thinking about the actual community here. sure, we have our fair share of trolls, but there are also a LOT of good people here. i've made (and kept) more online friends from here than any other site. i've met more of you, too. i'm also amazed at how cogent and put together a lot of you are, for your age.
for those wondering what i've been up to, it's been a wild and fretful ride these last months. mostly financial (surprise!) but with hard work, we've pulled through and the light is at the end of the tunnel. watching over you guys is some work, and it requires time and care. i didn't have enough of that to apply here and in RL. so i dove into playing games instead. that's been a lot of fun, and i'll probably keep playing because it's interactive and i've made some friends doing that, too. nothing as crazy as WoW, don't worry, haha.
for those who had my AIM: i don't use it anymore, because i have a windows laptop that i got for cheap and AIM is the most horrible thing ever on it. PM me if you want my other IM details. if i didn't have you on my list and you request it, you run the risk of being blocked from my PM box.
ok i think that's all for now. i'm gonna go poke around. :D
p.s. i am having trouble posting. it keeps saying that it can't connect to the server. but sometimes it DOES post. >:( i'm on FF 3.whateverthecurrentversionis. i have noscript installed, with everything but google-analytics allowed. >:((( halp.
and now for an unrelated picture.
