Dev Imperium » Friends http://joby.imperium.org Projects, interests, and pontifications of Joby Walker Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:14:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Free Love Seat http://joby.imperium.org/2008/08/free-love-seat/ http://joby.imperium.org/2008/08/free-love-seat/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:17:58 +0000 joby http://blogs.imperium.org/joby/archives/340 I know Rainwytch doesn’t like her current living room set — so I found her a “new” love seat:

love seat

It’s waiting for you at 62nd and 15th Ave NE!

]]> http://joby.imperium.org/2008/08/free-love-seat/feed/ 0 Geek Social Fallacies http://joby.imperium.org/2008/04/geek-social-fallacies/ http://joby.imperium.org/2008/04/geek-social-fallacies/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:00:23 +0000 joby http://blogs.imperium.org/joby/archives/313 I came across this several months ago — and being a geek that socializes with geeks, I recognize all five of the Five Geek Social Fallacies:

#1: Ostracizers Are Evil
#2: Friends Accept Me As I Am
#3: Friendship Before All
#4: Friendship Is Transitive
#5: Friends Do Everything Together

These fallacies don’t start off as something that is necessarily bad or wrong, but when made into an absolute bad things can happen.

I am not very social. I have friends and I’m happy so I won’t rock the boat. So I am a carrier of a corollary of #1 — avoid conflict that might lose you friends. I hate personal conflict, and will most likely just ignore it or maintain blissful ignorance of the issue. And my lack of social interest turns me into the curmudgeon at the parties where someone with #4 is trying to get me to be friends with their better friends(*) — which causes tension that I don’t want to deal with. I have gotten a bit better … but that isn’t saying much.

* better friends: another person’s friends or family that aren’t part of my core group of friends.

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