Tregoweth's original writeup, now deleted, said that he figured all his cools and such came from his friends here. I certainly look at the writeups written by the Everythingians I know personally (Tregoweth, Sylvar, and Gamaliel) more regularly than anyone else's. However, I don't think I cool their stuff more often than I cool anyone else's -- if you do a search for "cooled by" Segnbora-t there's quite a variety of people whose stuff I tend to like.

When the Cool Archive first arrived so that we could see who had cooled a writeup, Tregoweth told me that far fewer of the cools for his write-ups were coming from friends than he had expected. And yet he's still paranoid about getting cools from us. Yeesh.

I've known Uberfetus for about a year now. But it's OK, he was the one who introduced me to Everything!

Actually, to be truthful, I'm going to make a couple corrections to Uber's node. E2 for me started as a big joke when we started noding about how crap Cornell was. It was February 2000, we were all being swept away by the work, we were frustrated. I noded a bit then left, until the Cornell student elections took place. I got extremely pissed at the outcome of the election, and decided to node about it in its entire, fetid whole. That started a massive rant spree.

All I know is, if my older sister ever looked into Everything, she would no doubt begin her own liberal ranting spree (yeah, it's probably in the family), and all hell would break loose when she reveals personal details about me that I would rather have kept secret. Having friends (or relatives) on Everything runs the risk of having your anonymity screwed.

I have this idea in my mind, whenever I post anything to Everything, or a newsgroup, or a message board, or anywhere online, that one of my friends from offline will turn up there. With any of my close friends, I'm sure we'd have something to say about practically anything the other posted, and arguments would certainly be more colorful than they would with someone I don't know offline - you can insult someone that much more online by referring to events that no one else who will read your words knows about. There would be the potential for great hilarity or great catastrophe.

When I wonder about running into people from offline online, I'm not sure if I'm hopeful or fearful. With all the recommending I do of websites and such when I find a cool one, I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.