cut out the middleman

[cellio]

kayre had a good idea (which she in turn got from city_of_dis). My LJ friends come from a number of different and sometimes-intersecting circles. There are my local (and formerly-local) friends, the SCA folks, the filkers, the Jewish community, and several others. Many of you don't know each other but perhaps you should.

So this is your chance. If you feel inclined, say something about yourself here -- not addressed to me, but to the other readers of my journal who might turn out to be friends you didn't know you have.

Comments

[kayre]

Woops, neat idea but it's not mine!

Maybe when I'm not brain-dead I'll post an introduction here, but meanwhile please give credit where it's really due?

[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

OK, I met cellio via the SCA at Carnegie Mellon just under two decades (or alternately, just about exactly half my lifetime) ago. I lived in Pittsburgh for most of that time, but have just moved to Seattle, where I've not yet gotten active in the local SCA. I studied computers at CMU (not that they really give any of their majors an alternative) and have been a professional software developer for the past fifteen years. I like travelling and have a well-worn passport (actually, now on my second) in part because I've occasionally pursuaded my employers to pay to ship me someplace interesting to program things. Politically, I tend to be a deeply cynical moderate. On a related note, I will overanalyze anything if not restrained, myself included.

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

That's a brilliant idea, no matter where it came from.

I'm not going to introduce myself, partly because I don't want to, partly because my lj speaks for itself, partly because I do not want to have a friends list filled with people who think and live just like I do. So, anyone reading this is encouraged to have a look, and comment there if you feel moved to.

(Non-friends posts in my lj are screened.)

[sekhmets-song.livejournal.com]

Love the idea.

For those who are interested: I confess to being an attention whore, which mostly means I like to talk a lot and I enjoy, even more, a good debate. I am definitely a rabble-rouser of the leftist persuasion, but I don't limit my friends to only those who mirror my politics. How boring would that be? All I require is that you don't shut down those who disagree with you, but instead embrace the opportunity to explore your own opinions and beliefs through exchange with others.
For more on me, I invite you to step over to my LJ. I'd love to have you! Feel free to friend me and or comment, though my non-friend posts are screened, only to avoid the occasional childish name call (ask me about "the cheese incident"), not for content.

Myself, Chris Mortika

[akitrom.livejournal.com]

I know Monica from the SCA. I'd run into her musical arrangements for years, and then finally met her a year or two ago. We spent some time talking when I travelled from Minnesota to Pennsylvania for an SCA event other than Pennsic, and when I saw her here, I immediately added her to my friends list.

[siderea]

I'm one of cellio's SCA friends. I think we met first through the fact we're both dance musicians/music historians. It was probably at Pennsic.

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

I met Monica through estherchaya or one of the various weirdjews groups. I don't recall anymore.

Moreover, we've never met face-to-face, nor exchanged personal email (I think) even though we've had some lengthy conversations through posts and comments.

It's just a truly bizarre coincidence that she lives only a few blocks from my sister, to whose house I've never been and who doesn't have an LJ account that I know of. I'm not even certain that I've even mentioned her in a location that Monica would see beyond "friends and family in the area."

[hopeness.livejournal.com]

I guess I would count as knowing cellio through "the Jewish community". She was one of the faithful readers of my tikvahope journal, which documented my conversion to Judaism last year.
Like everyone else who's commented here I invite you to check out my journal (public posts at least), which probably says more about me than I can think of to say here.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I met cellio at BucConneer, the 1998 Worldcon, through beckyfeld and her husband. I then met her again through arib's journal.

People are welcome to check out my journal, which is...eclectic, let's say. My topics range from Judaism to language to writing to almost anything else that happens to tickle my fancy.

how I met cellio

[dmnsqrl.livejournal.com]

Well, the two first populators of my flist were siderea and joshwriting and my first few weeks or so here I took the time to check out everyone on either of their flists. cellio impressed me with her comments about the bible and matters of religion in general and thus she was quickly slotted into place in my flist.

'tis one of those ironies of the small world that akitrom has also met her since I'm sure I bumped into his lj presence mostly only after I moved to Minnesota myself and added myself to the local barony and now-kingdom communities (although I haven't ended up doing anywhere near as much SCA here as I thought might possibly happen. Like... any :)

[aliza250.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Aliza, and this is all my fault. :-)

I've seen at least one con performance of Off The Mark, but I don't think I've ever spoken to cellio in person. So I certainly didn't meet her through Harold Feld. :-) I probably found her LJ through weirdjews, which I don't follow any more.

I used to be a hotshot Unix sysadmin on the US East Coast, but now I'm an unemployed statistic in Peachland, BC, Canada (nearest city on most maps: Kelowna, BC, airport code YLW) looking for any kind of gainful desk job, here or (more likely) elsewhere in Western Canada.

I take thousands of digital photographs but don't post nearly enough of them to my journal or anywhere else; I haven't been to an SF convention in far too long; I play KoL, and my favorite news source is Google News.

how i became aware of cellio

[buoren.livejournal.com]

i'm rather drunk at the moment... so i'll keep it short:

"Stringize? Stringize? Perhaps we should send the engineers some new verbs."

Perhaps this is horribly misquoted, but I recall reading this on Deanna (dr4b)'s quote page; *that* is my first awareness.

Then I had the rather fortunate opportunity of working with her after Claritech up and imploded at MayaVIZ. Definitely someone I value wisdom and insight of...

-kevin


p.s. and yes I know that's bad style, ending in a preposition :).

[jducoeur]

I know cellio through the SCA. Best recollection says that we probably met through the Rialto -- I've definitely known her husband through the Rialto from its very earliest days, when he and I were two of the three most prolific posters on it. Anyway, since then she and I got to know each other better through SCA dance/music and philosophy/politics circles; we wind up overlapping quite frequently, since we have a number of similar interests.

(Speaking of which: an SCAish friend of mine, umbran, has just started as the spec writer at my company. He's new to technical documentation, so I was wondering if you had any particular advice on the subject.)

I did not meet her through Harold Feld. However, to demonstrate what a nexus Harold is, I've known him possibly longer than anyone else here, since he was active in the SCA up in these parts when he was much younger.

As for who I am: Justin du Coeur, collector of weird hobbies. I do SCA, LARP, fandom, Freemasonry, and more varieties of media than are sensible or sane...

Hi. *waves*

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Friend of friends here. cellio's comments on various friends' posts caught my attention often enough that I started looking at her LJ, and then I commented on something there, and...

Links between us include Judaism (I'm observant Orthodox, learn Gemara, wear pants, and follow my family tradition in not always covering my head), fandom (I was raised reading F&SF, taken to my first con at 10 years old, and friends are currently trying to pull me into the SCA), and geeky personality (I tend to geek about language rather than computers, but I did earn money for a couple of summers back in college writing code in LISP and ML).