January 14, 2003
Criticism or Disapproval?
In closing down the interblog unpleasantness, Ken refers to criticism on his recent squabble with Andy. It was only after a couple of days that it came to me he might be referring to Ken vs Andy. Hm. Perhaps my 'opinion' sounded like a disapproval, which is a nice example of me sounding off different than I intented to. I have a life of apologies behind me :-)I better pick up the phone and call someone else tomorrow morning. Explain him that it just felt like a good time to relate Alpha Male proudness to the real truth about electronic communication: while we try to achieve a certain amount of k3wl-ness in what we post, blog or mail, we still are fragile human beings. Most of us live to be loved, to be heard, to be understood. We carefully try to design the reality others will perceive from us.
Hm. There's a good chance people will get this wrong. If that is the case: here are my apologies upfront. I'd like to call you in the morning! :-)
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actually, stevenn, yours wasn't among the entries of which i was thinking when i wrote that. so no need. life's too short to spend it apologising. of course, it's also too short to go around pissing people off. maybe i'll find a happy medium someday which will allow me to not piss people off and therefore not need to apologise. :-) in the meantime, i'll just continue to muddle along.
Posted by: RoUS at January 14, 2003 04:34 PM