The online diary type and me
Publicado em , por Pedro Couto e Santos
I’m running Analog on my company website’s logs; I’m running it with the DNS option set to read, so I’m online resolving host names… how interesting. Since it’s not interesting I’m browsing through other online diaries, journals and the like and realizing there’s one thing I’m missing, the “about me” page (among other things, I know). I used to have one, but it was too “real”. Meaning, it wasn’t anonymous enough for my taste and this diary has become anonymous some time ago.
I found a pattern online diary persona. Usually, both real and made-up online diary people are white females, some young, 19 – 23, producing simple and sometimes naïf entries. They’re usually with some boyfriend or husband whom they like a lot and speak of in very innocent terms. Then there are the older ones, usually in their thirties, they’re strong independent women, married or with boyfriends of whom they don’t much like to talk. Almost everyone that writes an online diary has pets, mostly cats, although there are plenty of dogs. The majority thinks that they have writing skills, that writing an online diary fits in the category of literature or some way of creative writing. I haven’t found anyone yet (yet…), that’s not American, English or Australian.
What about little atypical me? Am I so different from what I have found? No, of course not… I also have cats!
I’m a 26 year-old white male from Europe. I’m married and work for myself, on my own company, as a web designer, illustrator, cartoonist, general manager, master of numbers, supreme lord of monkeys, ruler of the red eye people and tyrant dictator of answering machines.
I work from home, we all do, and use the internet, phones, cell phones, faxes, running couriers, pigeons and telepathy to stay in touch with my colleagues. I’m still trying to figure out if this stuff is worth making into an “about me” page…
Usually there’s a “likes” page… meaning that if you know what I like or enjoy you might learn more about me… fair enough, I like Star Wars, Mike Oldfield, comic books, Jungle Music, football (not that incredibly much, but still), movies (I rate star wars outside of ‘movies’), The X-Files, Gillian Anderson (I rate Gillian Anderson outside the X-files :) ), cats more than some people, few people more than my cats, working out, annoying my friends with silly one-liners to the limits of their patience, guitars, my house, computers.
I really like to eat: shanghai-style fried shrimp, lasagna, Häagen Dazs ice cream (almost any flavour that has chunks in it), cheese and ham toasts with fried eggs, eggs in general, shellfish, spaghetti, nice fresh salads, spicy potato chips, pea stew (yup, mainly made out of peas), Smints (the blue ones) and steaks (although I am considering vegetarianism, especially after trying out some veggie burgers last week).
I drink truckloads of: coffee, milk-caramelized sugar-coffee combination, Coca-Cola, orange fanta.
I also drink (albeit less than truckloads): Vodka, whiskey, beer (only recently, I used to hate the stuff).
I really hate: very fat people, soft handshakes, fish, techno, someone trying to bullshit me, bullshit in general, stupid people, unprofessional people, politics, governments, spanish people, the fact that I’m messy and disorganized, long repetitive loud annoying noises (I lived by a ship yard for years), heat, bad oral hygiene (especially from my clients), fashion, the fact that people live through famous people’s lives, not having a stupendous amount of money to spend, a lot more stuff than I like.
Hum… maybe I will make that “about me” page… it’s also time I actually put some effort into redesigning this site. Not that there’s much wrong with it, it works, it’s user friendly and readable, which is more than I can say for many other online diaries out there… but hey… I AM a designer, should try harder… and try harder I will.. hmmm, yes… see through you I can!
Good night then.
