Some of you have discovered this blog from the noise made when I had to move out. Some of you may have been confronted by Specialist Ed, my old roommate, and found out that way. Regardless, there are enough new people that I have to point them towards a good sample of what this site is about:
Bad Idea #2 - "Using an XBOX will break it" and Bad Idea #3 - "Will you buy a DVD player for the room"
Bad Idea #5 - Cleaning muddy boots in a bathtub that already has difficulty draining.
Bad Idea #7 - Let's charge $1000 a year for all students in public schools.
Note on Whiteboard
I have to convince him that bribery should be illegal.
Anyway, those are my personal favorites.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Spreading the word
I think it's a pretty bad idea to draw publicity to a site that lists your negative traits. But that's exactly what's been going on, and Specialist Ed won't stop talking about it. He has angry messages written on his whiteboard in his handwriting about this site, and he finds it necessary to continue confronting my friends about it, so I don't know what to do. I wanted to let it go, but he won't let the issue die.
So I will be posting the dozen or so stories that I had scribbled down notes for over the course of the next few weeks. In terms of content, this site still has some stuff left, so I'll be doing that. I will mostly be going back to crappy ideas that he had about society and public policy, rather than crappy roommate things he used to do. He was never a bad roommate. He was merely a bad friend and a bad soldier who happened to have terrible ideas for public policy.
So I will be posting the dozen or so stories that I had scribbled down notes for over the course of the next few weeks. In terms of content, this site still has some stuff left, so I'll be doing that. I will mostly be going back to crappy ideas that he had about society and public policy, rather than crappy roommate things he used to do. He was never a bad roommate. He was merely a bad friend and a bad soldier who happened to have terrible ideas for public policy.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Expectation of privacy
My next post will break down what happened to me as a result of maintaining this blog, what changes are coming, and what the future holds for this blog. As of right now, I am putting it back up for a simple reason - my former roommate finds it necessary to talk incessantly about this blog, and his largely inaccurate description of what I was doing deserves a rebuttal, namely the text of the blog itself.
This brings me to another point - because my former roommate won't let the issue die, more people who actually know him have discovered the blog through him than through me. Many found out when he made a big fuss and I had to abruptly change rooms amid much curiosity-arousing noise. Since he complained to others about the blog and is confronting everyone who we mutually knew about it (not very tactfully, I might add), I will let the blog speak for itself.
With that, those of you who read the blog and actually know who my roommate is, please don't aggravate the situation. Some of you have copied and redistributed the text of this site. While this is legally permissible (I publish this site under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license), I would prefer that you do not do this to spite my old roommate, which some of you have been doing. In addition, some have taken to openly taunting the former roommate - it is unacceptable and unnecessary to mock him by writing things on his door.
Now I'd also like to clarify - this blog's purpose is not to make fun of my roommate. While I did have real problems with my roommate's half-baked ideas on politics, law, and society, and I also have real problems with him professionally, our personal differences are nothing special. I regret letting him find out about the blog, since I had miscalculated the amount of damage it would cause. I'll post more on this later, as well as address concerns that were aired about OPSEC, PERSEC, breach of trust, and expectation of privacy. Most of what I posted on was unimportant, impersonal, and commonly available knowledge. If you say something to a group of your peers in the dining facility within earshot of dozens of others, it is not generally considered to be a private conversation.
I've also deleted any posts which could possibly be construed as too personal or too private.
This brings me to another point - because my former roommate won't let the issue die, more people who actually know him have discovered the blog through him than through me. Many found out when he made a big fuss and I had to abruptly change rooms amid much curiosity-arousing noise. Since he complained to others about the blog and is confronting everyone who we mutually knew about it (not very tactfully, I might add), I will let the blog speak for itself.
With that, those of you who read the blog and actually know who my roommate is, please don't aggravate the situation. Some of you have copied and redistributed the text of this site. While this is legally permissible (I publish this site under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license), I would prefer that you do not do this to spite my old roommate, which some of you have been doing. In addition, some have taken to openly taunting the former roommate - it is unacceptable and unnecessary to mock him by writing things on his door.
Now I'd also like to clarify - this blog's purpose is not to make fun of my roommate. While I did have real problems with my roommate's half-baked ideas on politics, law, and society, and I also have real problems with him professionally, our personal differences are nothing special. I regret letting him find out about the blog, since I had miscalculated the amount of damage it would cause. I'll post more on this later, as well as address concerns that were aired about OPSEC, PERSEC, breach of trust, and expectation of privacy. Most of what I posted on was unimportant, impersonal, and commonly available knowledge. If you say something to a group of your peers in the dining facility within earshot of dozens of others, it is not generally considered to be a private conversation.
I've also deleted any posts which could possibly be construed as too personal or too private.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
He found it
Long story short, my roommate discovered the blog and became understandably upset. I don't think I explicitly called him any names, but he is upset that I gave information that could be used to paint him as a "loser" (his words, not mine).
So as of right now, I'm quitting this site and considering deleting all record of it. I probably won't make up my mind until the weekend.
More thoughts here.
So as of right now, I'm quitting this site and considering deleting all record of it. I probably won't make up my mind until the weekend.
More thoughts here.
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