On 5/25/2014 1:18 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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> Similarly, mixed cussing is golly...
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s/golly/jolly/

Ugh...

On Sunday, 25 May 2014 at 05:18:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Similarly, mixed cussing is golly good f**king fun.

heh yeah, but I've been trying to quit cussing entirely. Which is harder than you might think, even though I didn't even go that wild with it before, it is still a bit of a habit to sprinkle in some random f-bombs just to set the mood or something.

And quitting makes singing along with the angry video game nerd theme song difficult :P

> (I really do like to deliberately use outdated slang, and the more deadpan the better.)

dats da bomb yo

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 01:42:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> heh yeah, but I've been trying to quit cussing entirely.

oh a fun addendum to this, I told a friend of mine (whom I haven't actually known that long) that I was trying to quit, and she was incredulous that I even swore at all. She said "I can't picture you swearing... there's a whole other side to you!"

Of course, I think /today/ was the.... fourth time she's ever seen me not wearing a tie of some sort too. She knows me as the proper Mormon, if a bit lighthearted, but I can come across as an angry, homophobic sailor when playing shooters online.



BTW that's one thing about in-person conferences that is kinda meta-fascinating too, seeing people rather than just email text. Even if I knew what some of you look and sound like from previous videos or pictures, it was still a bit of a surprise to meet there. Of course, at the same time, while I'm fairly talkative and even a little forward on emails, in person I tend to prefer to just hide in a corner until someone approaches me, but even then just kinda slinker off and go back to hiding before long.... so yeah.

On 5/26/2014 9:57 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 01:42:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> heh yeah, but I've been trying to quit cussing entirely.
>
> oh a fun addendum to this, I told a friend of mine (whom I haven't
> actually known that long) that I was trying to quit, and she was
> incredulous that I even swore at all. She said "I can't picture you
> swearing... there's a whole other side to you!"
>

Similar story here: I've never been one to shy away from swearing (not that I normally seek it out just for the heck of it or anything - though some might might that surprising <g>), but back in high school it seemed like *every* time I'd swear, there was always somebody around who'd get a deer-in-the-headlights look on their face and say "Nick! I've never heard you swear before!"

My mental-only response was always "Uhh, you must not have heard me talk much before..." ;)  Which was probably quite likely, mainly since...

>
> BTW that's one thing about in-person conferences that is kinda
> meta-fascinating too, seeing people rather than just email text. Even if
> I knew what some of you look and sound like from previous videos or
> pictures, it was still a bit of a surprise to meet there. Of course, at
> the same time, while I'm fairly talkative and even a little forward on
> emails, in person I tend to prefer to just hide in a corner until
> someone approaches me, but even then just kinda slinker off and go back
> to hiding before long.... so yeah.

Yea, same here. I can be a regular chatterbox in this NG, but in person I've always tended to be very quiet. Used to be *really* shy for a long time. Not quite so much now (HS and college developed a rebellious "fuck this shit"/"just don't give a rat's ass" ballsy streak in me), but I still tend toward the quiet and socially-awkward side whenever I'm not around people I already know really well.

I always chalked it up to the whole "nerd" thing: Inverse relationship in outgoingness between in-person vs semi-anonymous. (Although I'm probably closer to "otaku" nerd than "taped-glasses" nerd, FWIW). That, and on-the-fly comms is more difficult than "prep first then send" anyway.

On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:29:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us:
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> http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL
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> Andrei

This was best marketing for Adam book possible :) Someone who can talk for an hour without any visual helpers while still maintaining good information structure must be really good at writing books ;)

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 05:23:03 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I always chalked it up to the whole "nerd" thing: Inverse relationship in outgoingness between in-person vs semi-anonymous.

I don't think I'm /that/ much different; I rarely start threads, for example, but will talk in replies, which is analogous to waiting for someone else to approach me in person then having the discussion before going back into the shadows once it runs its course.

I also lurk on forums for a pretty long time before posting, similarly to how I sit quietly in bigger groups until I get to know the people (and generally until someone on the inside takes me under their wing).