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Sep. 20th, 2010 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogSo, in my typical late-adopter fashion, I have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon! You can find me chirping away as Stormdog42.
It took me quite a while to get on board with Facebook too. I finally set an account up over there because, though my parents and one of my brothers have LJ accounts, they don't use them as actively as their Facebook accounts and I wanted to keep up with them better. It's turned out to be a fun venue. On one hand, I'm much less inclined to post quick little updates in LJ since Facebook seems more suited to that. Though LJ has fewer posts of that nature, I actually write a greater number of them since I'm more inclined to dash off a quick update there than to write something that would probably end up being at least a little longer in Livejournal. (I suspect I often write more here than some people want to read.)
So now that I'm on Twitter, I have an even more restrictive length limit, and the atmosphere seems very stream of consciousness, so I'll be even more likely than I am with Facebook to post something like 'I'm making circles with my head in the elevator and imagining the 3D spiral that would result from plotting its movement' or 'I wonder why there's enough difference in air pressure to make that howling noise when the men's room door opens'. I wonder how that will change what I post in Facebook. And even more interesting to me, I wonder what it would be like to look at the content of various people's postings in very different mediums of expression like that. People who aren't being 'different people' in different places and instead are just expressing themselves naturally, and see how they vary. I wonder what the three different mental pictures of Stormdog would look like, as painted by people who'd only learned what I'm like from one place.
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A little bit to my surprise, I was at Dellacon this past weekend. It's a first-year relaxicon that a couple who I've known for some years, primarily through![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moiracoon, were running. I was made aware of it's existence when I was invited to stay there with people I've known even longer; Stephy, foreignlegion, and Dwarf. (Foreignlegion has known me since I was in diapers!) I owe my thanks to all of them for getting me out there, because I had an unexpectedly wonderful time on a number of levels!
I'm actively working at making more connections with people these days rather than always being at the fringes of things, so this weekend I just put myself in the con suite and I talked to people. In fact, I spent so much time talking to people that I never even made it to the waterpark, and I'm just fine with that! I'm trying really hard to remember all of the different people I got to talk to, so that's part of why I'm naming names.
There were a lot of people I've seen at conventions off and on for years who I've never really talked to or gotten to know. There were Kyttyn and Vlad, who I got to see at Nomad's last party too, after not having been in touch with them for some time. (I was all 'squee' over the fact that Kyttyn is still talking the time I painted her toenails at Congenial. *bounces*) I met their friend Lizzie who was the first person to braid my hair that weekend (I got a lot of hair-attention. I'm still smiling about that.) I got to talk photography with Pan. He showed me his portraiture and artistic nudes and I showed him my ruins and architecture work, and we talked about equipment and lighting and aesthetics. I talked to Laptop for a good while about the nudist trailer park in Indiana where she and Pan spend time (that sounds like a really neat place) while I talked about having gone to the national Rainbow Gathering with my mother years ago, which was my first (and so far only) exposure to casual public nudity and how much of a positive impression that made on me.
There were new people to me who I feel rather fortunate to have met, the most notable mention going todanaeris. I'd seen her mentioned from time to time in Nomad's LJ, but I don't think we'd previously met. From conversations about things like my interest in anthropology, we branched into myriad topics and spent hours talking and getting to know each other better. She also asked me if I was going to Windycon. I'd kind of been leaning toward not up to that point. But on top of feeling like I've finally managed to 'find my groove' in terms of being social in con space, the knowledge that a lovely and interesting woman would like to see me there has put me in the position of looking at pre-reg info and hotel costs. *smiles*
Other new folks I met included Slayer, who I talked to a little bit about his thoughts on religion and about his plans for making Duckcon more inclusive to a number of different groups. There was Bridgette (whose name I am most likely misspelling; sorry!), who told me a little about growing up in Missouri and floods on the Missouri River, the interesting geology of the area, and more. I got to chat a little bit with Phoenix (ok, I've actually known him for a long time too) about what's going on in Moira's life with her job situation (And about how much I enjoyed his convention of course!).
I did feel really bad when someone playfully tugged my ponytail and said hi, but I wasn't sure who she was. I was brave and directly explained that I wasn't sure who she was and apologized for that. She wanted me to see if I could remember who she was and...I didn't. If you read this, I'm sorry. And I know there were others I talked to who I'm not remembering right now. Everyone there really contributed to me having such a good time and I'm grateful.
I also feel a little bad that I didn't do more with the three people who got me to come out there in the first place. Again, I owe all of you my thanks for inviting me.
Well, I've been writing bits of this most of the day and it's about time for me to make sure things are finished up here at work and get down to the train. I hope everyone else is dealing with their Monday well!
It took me quite a while to get on board with Facebook too. I finally set an account up over there because, though my parents and one of my brothers have LJ accounts, they don't use them as actively as their Facebook accounts and I wanted to keep up with them better. It's turned out to be a fun venue. On one hand, I'm much less inclined to post quick little updates in LJ since Facebook seems more suited to that. Though LJ has fewer posts of that nature, I actually write a greater number of them since I'm more inclined to dash off a quick update there than to write something that would probably end up being at least a little longer in Livejournal. (I suspect I often write more here than some people want to read.)
So now that I'm on Twitter, I have an even more restrictive length limit, and the atmosphere seems very stream of consciousness, so I'll be even more likely than I am with Facebook to post something like 'I'm making circles with my head in the elevator and imagining the 3D spiral that would result from plotting its movement' or 'I wonder why there's enough difference in air pressure to make that howling noise when the men's room door opens'. I wonder how that will change what I post in Facebook. And even more interesting to me, I wonder what it would be like to look at the content of various people's postings in very different mediums of expression like that. People who aren't being 'different people' in different places and instead are just expressing themselves naturally, and see how they vary. I wonder what the three different mental pictures of Stormdog would look like, as painted by people who'd only learned what I'm like from one place.
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A little bit to my surprise, I was at Dellacon this past weekend. It's a first-year relaxicon that a couple who I've known for some years, primarily through
moiracoon, were running. I was made aware of it's existence when I was invited to stay there with people I've known even longer; Stephy, foreignlegion, and Dwarf. (Foreignlegion has known me since I was in diapers!) I owe my thanks to all of them for getting me out there, because I had an unexpectedly wonderful time on a number of levels!I'm actively working at making more connections with people these days rather than always being at the fringes of things, so this weekend I just put myself in the con suite and I talked to people. In fact, I spent so much time talking to people that I never even made it to the waterpark, and I'm just fine with that! I'm trying really hard to remember all of the different people I got to talk to, so that's part of why I'm naming names.
There were a lot of people I've seen at conventions off and on for years who I've never really talked to or gotten to know. There were Kyttyn and Vlad, who I got to see at Nomad's last party too, after not having been in touch with them for some time. (I was all 'squee' over the fact that Kyttyn is still talking the time I painted her toenails at Congenial. *bounces*) I met their friend Lizzie who was the first person to braid my hair that weekend (I got a lot of hair-attention. I'm still smiling about that.) I got to talk photography with Pan. He showed me his portraiture and artistic nudes and I showed him my ruins and architecture work, and we talked about equipment and lighting and aesthetics. I talked to Laptop for a good while about the nudist trailer park in Indiana where she and Pan spend time (that sounds like a really neat place) while I talked about having gone to the national Rainbow Gathering with my mother years ago, which was my first (and so far only) exposure to casual public nudity and how much of a positive impression that made on me.
There were new people to me who I feel rather fortunate to have met, the most notable mention going to
danaeris. I'd seen her mentioned from time to time in Nomad's LJ, but I don't think we'd previously met. From conversations about things like my interest in anthropology, we branched into myriad topics and spent hours talking and getting to know each other better. She also asked me if I was going to Windycon. I'd kind of been leaning toward not up to that point. But on top of feeling like I've finally managed to 'find my groove' in terms of being social in con space, the knowledge that a lovely and interesting woman would like to see me there has put me in the position of looking at pre-reg info and hotel costs. *smiles*Other new folks I met included Slayer, who I talked to a little bit about his thoughts on religion and about his plans for making Duckcon more inclusive to a number of different groups. There was Bridgette (whose name I am most likely misspelling; sorry!), who told me a little about growing up in Missouri and floods on the Missouri River, the interesting geology of the area, and more. I got to chat a little bit with Phoenix (ok, I've actually known him for a long time too) about what's going on in Moira's life with her job situation (And about how much I enjoyed his convention of course!).
I did feel really bad when someone playfully tugged my ponytail and said hi, but I wasn't sure who she was. I was brave and directly explained that I wasn't sure who she was and apologized for that. She wanted me to see if I could remember who she was and...I didn't. If you read this, I'm sorry. And I know there were others I talked to who I'm not remembering right now. Everyone there really contributed to me having such a good time and I'm grateful.
I also feel a little bad that I didn't do more with the three people who got me to come out there in the first place. Again, I owe all of you my thanks for inviting me.
Well, I've been writing bits of this most of the day and it's about time for me to make sure things are finished up here at work and get down to the train. I hope everyone else is dealing with their Monday well!
