Housekeeping

[pecunium]

It occurs to me, as I have been getting more traffic lately, that few people go to the info/splash page to see who, or what, I am.

Which means they don't know the rules.

So, for the hell of it, I'll post them, in brief.

1: This is Liberty Hall, where you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard.

Which is to say I have, for purposes of debate, no sacred cows. It has happened, in the past, that some see my picture, or read that I'm in the Army, and assume things about my worldview. The same happens when they read a single piece of my writing. That way lies madness, for no man is all of a piece.

2: If you want to hang out and enjoy my railleries, listen to the side-chatter and say nothing, feel free. You don't need to ask to friend me.

3: Be polite to my guests.

This is my place. I let others in because 1: I like them (if they are on my f-list, it's because something about them struck me as worthy of some sort of regular attention), and 2:I am hospitable. Which means I am extending hospitality. They are my guests, and as such they get some protections (even when they don't really need me to save them).

4: If you want to post, you need to let me know, in some way, who you are. You don't need to make a formal introduction (and having an Lj counts... I can find a little something about you from that). If you don't have an Lj, a name at the end of a comment will suffice.

I've been bending this rule since I made it (the most egregious case of bending being someone who insulted my honor. I can get prickly about that, see above, where no man is all of a piece), but the basic rule is: You want to be anonymous to the world, I can do that. But you don't get to come in here wearing a mask, shoot up my joint and ride out in a cloud of dust. You don't even get to come in and be polite, buy a drink and pay the tab that way. I can't shoot you dead at the saloon door, but I can refuse the right to enter. You want to be a mystery man to the world. Fine. I'll strip any identifying info, and repost for you (which will even hide your IP addy) but I won't let you not say hello to me. You can let me know (a deleted comment will work fine, I get it when you send it, and then you can delete it, heck, an anonymous comment will work, because they only get seen when I unscreen them), and we'll work out a way for you to let me know it's you, and the rest of the world will be none the wiser.

Yes, you can lie to me. You can give me a false e-mail, or a fake name, but that's the way the game goes. You could do the same in a real saloon. Keep showing up, the locals will recognise you. Piss me off (or cause me to feel you've violated my hospitality to my guests) and I'll refuse to serve you.

Those are pretty much all the rules.

Sit down a spell, put your feet up, take a load off.

The first round's on me.

Comments

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

t has happened, in the past, that some see my picture, or read that I'm in the Army, and assume things about my worldview

((cackles))

Er, pardon me. That's just v funny.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Granted. Now, what makes it funny?

No offense taken, but I am a curious fellow, and wonder how others see me.

TK

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

People just often tend to assume members of the military are super-conservative (as well as jingoistic or unthinking or non-individualistic or other stupid cliches) and it was just amusing to think of someone trying to strike up a conversation with you with that assumption. Not that you would be offensive or anything in response, but I just think the result would be v unlike what they expected.

Bastages

[adriang.livejournal.com]

where you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard.

They called William a bastard until 1066, and then they called him "William The Conqueror".

Adrian

Re: Bastages

[ad-kay.livejournal.com]

*snort*

Re: Bastages

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Weird thing.

Your handle has disappeared from the screen. I, at least, can't see it anywhere.

TK

Assuming things

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

In the newsgroup soc.politics a while ago, I responded to a European (don't recall which country) who believed that the US press was totally and completely subservient to the government.

A Canadian then explained that I was obviously a typical American who got his views from watching TV.

1) There are blind people who watch TV more than I do. Literally. (Okay; one I know has 3 percent vision and the others are even farther from total blindness.)

2) Three of my grandparents were Marxists; the fourth was an anarchist.

Re: Assuming things

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

1. My fully blind ex-roommate had cable and a TV because he was a baseball fan, it was the only way he could get all his games.

2. My sister was once banned from an Ayn Rand IRC channel for being a man who was pretending to be a woman.

3. People can be such dorks about assumptions.

Re: Assuming things

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

1. My fully blind ex-roommate had cable and a TV because he was a baseball fan, it was the only way he could get all his games.

God, that's terrible. Television announcers are awful. If there wasn't delay we'd listen to the radio and watch the television, but we end up knowing what going to happen, which sort of spoils the watching.

TK

[lahermite.livejournal.com]

You're a riot!!

*chuckling*

[ad-kay.livejournal.com]

Works for me. Post foodpr0n now and again, and I'll really be happy. Oh, BTW, I'm hashing things out with my friend who used poor manners in my blog. (Funny thing is, y'all would get along great in person and could happily polish off a bottle of Shiraz between the two of you.)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Hrmn... I'll have to be reminded of the poor manners.

Food porn will happen. Tomorrow is stock and butchery. Tonight I am being lazy.

A chicken, butter between skin and breast, onion, cerley, and rosemary (maybe with some poppyseed) for stuffing. White wine to put inside with that.

All in a dutch oven, over coals, potatoes in foil. TInfoil under the rack (keeps the oven cleaner). Catch the drippings, a bit of cornstarch, and a dash of tarragon to make a sauce.

Drink the rest of the wine.

TK

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to retaliate with the dreaded lasagne recipe, aren't I?

I just found the most wonderful hard rolls. They're divine. I got a wonderful beef roast, too---I'm thinking some sort of stew. I have to think in terms of lunches.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to hear the stock porn.

antiquated_tory and I are very fond of homemade chicken stock, but oh the yellow chicken grease that manages to cover the entire kitchen...

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

Yer killin' me with the food porn.

BTW, I didn't get your email about the addy until too late.

I'll just have to pick them up when I'm in Cali on leave. ;-)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

All right, piccies and presents when you get here.

I'm glad the wedding went well, and at this point I don't think you'll miss ours for being OCONUS.

I hope being back in the box isn't too hard to bear (I don't think I could have taken leave, the loss of focus and the pain of return would have been more than I could bear).

Be of good cheer. I'll send a care package, I promise. Maybe I'll send you the Baroque Cycle.

In which case you may decide to skip the wedding.

Love,

Terry

Assuming things, redux

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the visit the other day. No one’s called me ma’am in a long time (not counting the kids who work grocery checkout, that is). People are always surprised to learn I was in the service, and even more surprised to learn I wasn’t somewhere like Riyadh during the first gulf war.

And if you’re ever in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, we’ll have to have that drink.

Charity
http://ctahmase.diaryland.com

Re: Assuming things, redux

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Well, saluting across the internet is hard to do.

Sooner or later I'll be in the twin-cities, because I owe another troop a drink. I'll look you up.

TK

[ladymeow.livejournal.com]

Cheers!

*clink*

[qp4.livejournal.com]

I also get somewhat peturbed by people thinking that Army means [fill in the blank], and forget that each of us is an individual that just happens to be in the military.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I get it from both ends.

People who find out, after they get to know me, that I'm in the Army, are shocked. The don't parse out what it says when they ask how I can be in the Army, because I'm (fill in the adjectives of what they think about soldiers here), and that doesn't fit.

It's amusing to me what that says about the prejudices of those (and it come's from both ends of the spectrum) about soldiers, on the part of those who think I am too much of one thing, or not enough of another.

TK

[urox.livejournal.com]

Sorry if I broke a rule not introducing myself earlier. I followed you here from Orkut, read some entries, liked the intelligence level. Email me at urox at live journal dot com if you want more info/detail because I'm pretty private here.

I'm going to have to amend one of my journal posts pointing people to you here to include your splash screen.

So, hello. :)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Hrmn.... I don't know how to balance the statements.

Having an lj counts an intorduction. This is more saloon than salon, so anyone can come in.

If one is completely anonymous (no Lj, no sig line, no hello, I'm so and so), then I hold the comment.

If they say, "This is what I think" and put a name at the bottom. I take it.

If they send me a note saying, I am "so and so" and I don't want people to know who I am, I say that's fine, and they can choose some way of letting me know it's them.

What I don't see the point in is allowing people to come in, make a mess on the floor, offend the regulars and stomp out in a cloud of huff, feeling they have proved some point by being more obnoxious than was warranted.

That I drown at birth.

So no, you didn't break any rules.

TK

[collie13.livejournal.com]

Hello. I've been noticing your comments here and there on LJ, and I like the way you express yourself. I also like your icon/photo, even though you apparently don't, from the way you refer to it on your profile page?

Anyway, recently I was reading about HE being an idiot at the Hugo Awards this year (2006), and your replies seemed full of good sense and not hysterical to me, so I thought I'd try adding you to my FList.

You've asked folks to be polite and introduce themselves or have an LJ. Please feel free to check out my profile page as well, if you wish. While I'll likely pass on spitting on the mat here, I may occasionally call the cat a bastard. ;)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Ah, well the photo I was referring to isn't that one. I have another (if you go to all userpics, it's the one in camo), which is part of a larger whole. That one used to be my default.

Welcome.

TK