Rambling on Two Subjects
The longer I stay on the internet, the more I get used to its conveniences and the more I grow weary of its kruft. In real life it's easier to escape mistakes and antiquities as you move from space to space (physical and temporal), but in cyber space everything is semi-permanent (which makes it feel permanent). People who may have forgotten about you remember when they check their old links.
I grew up nearing the cusp of the internet generation, 'discovering' the net right before my personality started to really gel. I incorporated the since of connectivity and flow that the online world brings, but not the ideas of transience and purposeful anonymity. Several of the online identities I know (to seperate them momentarily from their physical identities, some of which I know to varying degrees) have reincarnated themselves in some way. On Live Journal, that consists of privatizing entries from earlier times or abandoning an old journal and creating a new one, with or without ties to the old. For a long time, I didn't understand why someone would want to do that.
Now, I'm thinking seriously about the merits of "moving on." Of course, cutting yourself off from undesirables is nigh impossible on the 'net, especially if you keep the same friends and enjoy that connectivity aspect. Like all other choices, it's grey.
Who knows if I'll actually go about doing it, or when or how. I am kinda glad that I can consider it as an option now, though. It means I'm not completely set in my ways yet. Now that scares me.
In real life news, Ian came over this weekend for board games! Hooray!
Also, it seems that Dad, Stephanie and I want to play Dungeons and Dragons again. The logistics are the hard part.
Finally, since we're still caught up on Naruto Shippuden, we've started watching different anime: Saikano. If I want the nostalgia of powerful emotions, that's a show to do it. I did a quick search for it on my live journal, and I see I've only mentioned it a couple of times. I don't actually remember when I watched it the first time, whether it was in Anime Club or on my own time. (Maybe Keith can help remind me)
Although I've always been a big Japanese game lover, I didn't start watching anime until my freshman year, when Ian convinced me to go with him to the Anime Club. Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Read or Die introduced me to anime, and I was hooked. When I found computers on campus sharing entire series, I watched a lot of anime on my own on Saturday and Sunday nights while my freshman roommate was out on the town.
Anime Club introduced me to anime, but it was most important during my freshman year. In my sophmore year, Denise distracted me from the club. In my junior and senior years, I distracted myself from it. It was my super-senior year that I started to introduce Stephanie to anime through the club. Otaku are weird--and interesting!--people.
Freshman year, though, I watched a lot of shows that stuck with me: Read or Die, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Lain (or was that 2nd year?), (as much as I hate to admit it) Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hellsing... My coherent thoughts on those are lost, as I didn't start my journal until right before the end of the school year. And then during Sophomore year, there were all those shows that I watched before, during, or after I discovered relationships. That's a frick-ton of emotion there, invested in shows like Onegai Teacher, Love Hina, El Hazard, Paranoia Agent, Last Exile, and Angelic Layer.
... Basically, I hope Stephanie likes Saikano, because I'd feel awfully silly if she wasn't moved by a show that affected me so strongly four or five years ago. Actually, it's affecting me right now. I think I'm going to go wake her up, because I need snuggles.
It's 12:45AM right now, but the internet is out, so I guess I'm not going to be able to post this until the morning. (Addendum: Ooh, it worked!)
I grew up nearing the cusp of the internet generation, 'discovering' the net right before my personality started to really gel. I incorporated the since of connectivity and flow that the online world brings, but not the ideas of transience and purposeful anonymity. Several of the online identities I know (to seperate them momentarily from their physical identities, some of which I know to varying degrees) have reincarnated themselves in some way. On Live Journal, that consists of privatizing entries from earlier times or abandoning an old journal and creating a new one, with or without ties to the old. For a long time, I didn't understand why someone would want to do that.
Now, I'm thinking seriously about the merits of "moving on." Of course, cutting yourself off from undesirables is nigh impossible on the 'net, especially if you keep the same friends and enjoy that connectivity aspect. Like all other choices, it's grey.
Who knows if I'll actually go about doing it, or when or how. I am kinda glad that I can consider it as an option now, though. It means I'm not completely set in my ways yet. Now that scares me.
In real life news, Ian came over this weekend for board games! Hooray!
Also, it seems that Dad, Stephanie and I want to play Dungeons and Dragons again. The logistics are the hard part.
Finally, since we're still caught up on Naruto Shippuden, we've started watching different anime: Saikano. If I want the nostalgia of powerful emotions, that's a show to do it. I did a quick search for it on my live journal, and I see I've only mentioned it a couple of times. I don't actually remember when I watched it the first time, whether it was in Anime Club or on my own time. (Maybe Keith can help remind me)
Although I've always been a big Japanese game lover, I didn't start watching anime until my freshman year, when Ian convinced me to go with him to the Anime Club. Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Read or Die introduced me to anime, and I was hooked. When I found computers on campus sharing entire series, I watched a lot of anime on my own on Saturday and Sunday nights while my freshman roommate was out on the town.
Anime Club introduced me to anime, but it was most important during my freshman year. In my sophmore year, Denise distracted me from the club. In my junior and senior years, I distracted myself from it. It was my super-senior year that I started to introduce Stephanie to anime through the club. Otaku are weird--and interesting!--people.
Freshman year, though, I watched a lot of shows that stuck with me: Read or Die, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Lain (or was that 2nd year?), (as much as I hate to admit it) Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hellsing... My coherent thoughts on those are lost, as I didn't start my journal until right before the end of the school year. And then during Sophomore year, there were all those shows that I watched before, during, or after I discovered relationships. That's a frick-ton of emotion there, invested in shows like Onegai Teacher, Love Hina, El Hazard, Paranoia Agent, Last Exile, and Angelic Layer.
... Basically, I hope Stephanie likes Saikano, because I'd feel awfully silly if she wasn't moved by a show that affected me so strongly four or five years ago. Actually, it's affecting me right now. I think I'm going to go wake her up, because I need snuggles.
It's 12:45AM right now, but the internet is out, so I guess I'm not going to be able to post this until the morning. (Addendum: Ooh, it worked!)