Gratuitious poll

[ckd]

Now that I've been given a paid account for Christmas (even though I actually received the gift during Hannukah; I'm not complaining, mind you) I may as well have an almost completely gratuitous poll. (It was that or try phone posting, and I'm too tired to try phone posting.)

Besides, I'm curious as to who's reading my blog and how.
[Poll #404172]

Comments

[irilyth]

I noticed today that you'd added me to your reading list (aka "friends list"), and spent the next few hours (on and off) thinking "Christopher Davis... Chris Davis... Christopher K Davis... damn that name is familiar, but who the hell is he?!?" I think I have finally nailed down that I know you through David Kovar, back when he was running a Diplomacy adjudicator on morollan.eff.org (ten years before I had read any Steven Brust, btw), but I'm not 100% sure whether I've also met you, or your wife, or something, in some other context. So anyway, I figured I'd fill out your poll, sheepishly admit my memory failures, and wonder if we had a closer connection than I was recalling. :^)

I haven't started reading your journal or your blog regularly yet, but I might.

Just out of curiosity, how'd you come across my journal here?

[ckd]

You posted a comment on jere7my's LJ, and the userid was distinctive and memorable enough for me to say "hey, I know that name from somewhere" and go off to check out the LJ associated with it. (I'll even admit that I couldn't remember exactly where, so you don't have to feel bad about not remembering where you'd seen my name either!)

No, I don't think there are any contexts other than the online Diplomacy stuff, or possibly other USENET groups.

[irilyth]

Ok, cool. The next obvious question, of course, is where do you know j7y from? :^) I know him from our undergrad days at Swarthmore... We were two years apart, so overlapped by two years there.

[ckd]

Him, USENET. Mostly rec.arts.sf.* groups.