Yesterday, on my way to TCAF, I bumped into my new neighbour Anita. Or Geekigirl. I don’t know what I’m supposed to call my real-life peeps online.
You know, I never considered “The Grumpy Owl” to be my title until people started calling me that. My name is Ryan Oakley. I only accepted “The Grumpy Owl” as a personal designation when I realized how pointless the fight was. Like “dandy”, it’s just what people wanted to call me. I couldn’t stop them. So I just accepted it then incorporated it into my life. I’ve been called worse things by better people.
Anyway, I met Anita in the street and, having different destinations, we quickly parted ways. Met again on the subway where she snapped this pic of my shirt and tie with some telephone thingamajig.
I like the picture. Mainly because it doesn’t contain the distraction of my head.
2 comments
laurenarcher
May 10, 2009 at 1:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
In the part of the internet where I was raised (The backwaters of sci-fi/fantasy fandom) it is rude to call people you only know online by their real names, unless invited to do so…
Ryan Oakley
May 10, 2009 at 1:50 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I thought that applied to people who had an alias but you knew their real name. I’ve never been anonymous except for a brief period where I was trolling Cajun cooking sites.
But, like I said, I gave up being worried about it ages ago.