The Backroad to Civilization

October 28th, 2014:

	My revived interest in BBSes and the Usenet has lasted more than a 
couple of weeks!  This is unusual for me, as I normally lose interest in 
things by this point... too many squirrels and shiny objects around.

	My interest in the Usenet has been held thanks largely to the 
efforts of one man, Randall Wood, creator of the dictator.* Usenet 
hierarchy and author of The Dictator's Handbook.  He's been posting daily 
like a madman in comp.misc (and other groups) since the great Slashdot 
migration earlier this year (late last..?) and has been keeping things 
interesting... I really should follow his lead.  The Usenet could use more 
on-topic discussions.

	I had a bit of fun in comp.sys.tandy this morning.  Someone 
(probably a Google Grouper) had replied to a twelve-year old post, and two 
more people had admonished him for doing so.  Ordinarily I'd "Skip to next 
unread post", but something in the quoted text caught my eye:  "Conceited 
Jerk".

	Conceited Jerk has been my main nickname/alias for nearly twenty 
years... and sure enough, the thread being revived was one I'd started 
back in the early 2000s!  The thread was about my Tandy 1500HD laptop 
which I'd acquired on eBay, specifically about replacement hard drives for 
the machine (the one inside the machine was dead).  So, I posted a 
followup article in this twelve-year old thread, saying the machine sat 
buried in my basement since then, and was thrown out this past August 
while cleaning.

	'Cause ya gotta have closure....