AiT publisher Larry Young has a new column called “I Gots Me Some Enthsiasm” over at the new comic site Rescued by Nerds, where he talks about why he doesn’t pop up on many message boards anymore:
Not everybody comes from the same place, or can use words in the same way, so I don’t mix it up as often as I did, because the playing field isn’t exactly level. I have no interest in dumbing-down for the LCD, and the LCD would probably take umbrage at being labelled “lowest-common-denominator” anyway. No need to make anybody mad.
So I’ve sort of accidentally purged negativity and antithesis from my daily life. I have stuff I gotta do for me, and I have stuff I gotta do for the business, and I have stuff I gotta do for the kid. That doesn’t leave much time for being abrasive to the thin-skinned, you know? So with what’s left of my free time, I use for the things for which I gots me some enthusiasm.
