10/29/14

[Niveous]

In doing the SF:TR cards, I have to do a lot of research. One painful thing I keep running into when look back through the forums is early posts of my own. I really do wonder how many people hated me back then because there must have been a fair number. I'm amazed at how much of a difference ten years makes.

Do any of you get those same kinds of feelings when you read your old posts?

[Billy's Little Trip]

Not for me. In all the years I've been here, people have consistently treated me like a sardine and Limburger sandwich on a hot summer day.

Honestly, everyone has been pretty awesome here.

[fluffy]

Do any of you get those same kinds of feelings when you read your old posts?

Yes. I also feel that way whenever I look at my old comics, read my old blog entries, look at my old code, and listen to my old music.

Supposedly it's a sign of getting better than you look back on your old stuff and can't stand it. I'd like to think that if I ever stopped hating my old output it'd mean I have stopped improving.

[HeuristicsInc]

not necessarily old posts, but definitely old songs... and yeah, old code too... we found a really harebrained mistake in my old code the other day. very embarrassing. i meant to inherit classes from the base class for polymorphism...but didn't actually inherit them. so when somebody changed the data, everything went haywire.
-bill

[j$]

Very occasionally, there are posts or songs I am not proud of. Doesn't mean they're good but I still stand by them. Seriously, maybe two or three songs that I should have kept in the archive, maybe a dozen posts where I'm baiting, rather than adding something I think is worth sharing - But I felt the same way at the time I first submitted them, as well, I just didn't care enough.

For the most part, I have not evolved as a human being over 11 years at SF, thankfully, other than to think a bit more about how people I am annoying will take umbrage at what I have just written. My only steadfast rule is "It's not funny, even if it is". Which has stood me in good stead since somewhere around 2007, when I first posted it.

j$