Monthly Archives: October 2009

Moderation Observations, part 1

I’ve been a moderator here at SFN for almost four years now, and an administrator for about three. (The promotion to administrator was rather ad-hoc and I’m not entirely sure when it happened in retrospect; one day blike needed help fixing something in vBulletin and he promoted me so I had access to the right

Nerd Poetry no. 2

First, read the poem What I Believe, by Michael Blumenthal. It’s crucial to understanding my poem. What I Believe I believe that unicorns exist, but that dolphins and iguanas are entirely imaginary. I believe that a hamster’s bite won’t kill a man, but that his wife will. I believe that the weirder you get, the