If this is what passes for insightful modern journalism these days, I'm going to claw my eyes out. First Katz demonstrates his intimate familiarity with the cyberpunk RPG culture by garbling the name of "Shadowrun", and then he proceeds to ramble about how the backstory for an RPG (and an unspectacular one at that, if I may say so) has something terribly important to say about modern society.
This reads like uninspired ad copy for White Wolf. Reading this gave me the same sort of embarrassed and disgusted feeling you might get from watching a total stranger masturbate in public.
Slashdot people: Can't you let someone _else_ approve Jon's posts?
and most importantly, the unpaid organizer of the non-profit Yet Another Perl Conference (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/yapc/), a grass-roots open-source conference that turned out far better than O'Reilly's $1,000-per-person corporate-oriented Perl conference.
Sure, this isn't the kind of visibly heroic evangelistic effort that you see from people like RMS and ESR and Bruce Perens... but then, if you're looking for unsung heroes, I couldn't think of a guy who deserves it more.
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If this is what passes for insightful modern journalism these days, I'm going to claw my eyes out. First Katz demonstrates his intimate familiarity with the cyberpunk RPG culture by garbling the name of "Shadowrun", and then he proceeds to ramble about how the backstory for an RPG (and an unspectacular one at that, if I may say so) has something terribly important to say about modern society.
This reads like uninspired ad copy for White Wolf. Reading this gave me the same sort of embarrassed and disgusted feeling you might get from watching a total stranger masturbate in public.
Slashdot people: Can't you let someone _else_ approve Jon's posts?
- the active maintainer of the CMU EFnet IRC server,
- the author and maintainer of the INSANELY cool infobot project (http://www.infobot.org/),
- and most importantly, the unpaid organizer of the non-profit Yet Another Perl Conference (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/yapc/), a grass-roots open-source conference that turned out far better than O'Reilly's $1,000-per-person corporate-oriented Perl conference.
Sure, this isn't the kind of visibly heroic evangelistic effort that you see from people like RMS and ESR and Bruce Perens... but then, if you're looking for unsung heroes, I couldn't think of a guy who deserves it more.