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Well I figured that part out :P I knew it was jonmc but I thought TPS had brown hair so I didn't think that was her. The Vegas pics gave me that impression...
But how cool is it that Mefi (and thereby Mecha) were in the NYTimes? Oh wait...it's not cool, now we're mainstream :( This is the second time this week that something "geeky" about me has been featured in a widespread publication. World of Warcraft was featured in a review published in Science.
The article is shockingly dreadful, but it is still the height of awesome that DaShiv is now recongized internationally as the mad genius photog that he is!
For the MetaChat record, the caption for the fifth picture actually belongs to the seventh and vice versa. Apparently, Judith Miller is now working on the NYT website.
Marvelous, simply marvelous. Not the article, but the attention given to DaShiv. I hope he comes to Chapel Hill soon. What would be the best way to lure him here, do you suppose? For that matter, how do I get any number of our mefi, metachat luminaries here? Here I go: I will feed you dinner if you come to Chapel Hill. As long as you are not an ax murderer, and have good table manners.
Well-deserved exposure, I say. He's very talented and he knows his kit. He's patient, he always has the perfect lens for the environment and he's handy with an off-camera flash. He's probably also good at deleting his rubbish.
I hope he does really well from this. Weddings can be really hard and boring to shoot; he should be doing all portraiture.
Ya, I am in that slideshow, but not captioned correctly. And I honestly don't care enough to ask someone to correct it. The whole thing makes me slightly nervous for reasons I can't articulate, so the more veiled and confusing everything is, the better.
I share your anxiety, TPS. And not just because of the privacy issues of having one's online persona suddenly intersect with one's real life.
It's kinda like when you find a favorite bar, and the food is good and the drinks are right and the music is the kind you like played neither too loudly nor too softly and the people are fun and then you read a review in the newspaper raving about how good the place is and you think, "Oh, no. There went that."
It's my hope that my analogy is specious: matamyntex is a helluva talented bouncer, and maybe all this really means is more revenue for the site. Hope so.
The whole thing makes me slightly nervous for reasons I can't articulate
I think I know what you mean, teeps. When I worked for the gov't and then for a local but nationally prominent university, I guarded my anonymity for a number of reasons. I didn't say anything that could get me fired, but I really didn't want my 'straight' life to intersect; I didn't want those people to know about this part of me. The one time I let it slip to a co-worker who I thought was sympatico, I deliberately gave her the wrong URL because this is my space. Now I live in an incredibly small community, and I wonder sometimes about how much I've let out, even though my real name ain't here. I have much less to lose, but I'd be rather uncomfortable if my image, username and photo were linked online, even though I've met many of you.
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