So I wandered onto my favorite IRC channel one day. It was a Thursday. How’s it going, I asked.
About usual for Thursday, said another regular on the channel. Snorting cocaine off a dead hooker’s leg.
It wasn’t what Kathy Sierra is going through. It wasn’t personal, heaven knows. It wasn’t pointed at me. It wasn’t even intended to be offensive.
But I never went back to that channel after that.
There’s a continuum. All of this stuff is on it. It’s damned hard to tell where stuff falls sometimes.
Please try to stay off it. Please. And I will too.