heptapod's Journal: I miss my Internet Life

I used to hang out in a great room on IRC but I don't go there anymore after I tried something really stupid back in March of 2004. I'm certain they resented me for being selfish, an idiot and showing myself as being pitifully weak.

The past couple of months I have found a life off of the internet. A real life girlfriend not one of those imaginary Canadian ones that one visited last year. Meeting real life people in the hopes of engendering something continuing and social. Heaven forbid anyone think I'm being one of those pretentious twits like Cliff Stoll who believe they are better because they don't go on the internet.

Now that winter's coming around I'm wishing I could get online and hang out with people. LambdaMOO trolling, my abiding dislike of Australians and someone from a meetup gone wrong portraying me as evil, slovenly and heaven knows what else has closed that forum.

I'm not particularly geeky or nerdy so there's not much I can add here which would be relevant to the help desk slaves who consider themselves admins because they can cd into a dir then ls -a for 31337 hax0rign.