Lazy Sunday mornings with my readers

Every once in awhile I go through a comments binge, where I trawl through them all for the last while and send off little notes if they've left a way to reply. It wasn't such a big deal ages ago when I committed to it, but if you look closely at the screenshots below, it's starting to get a little over the top.

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I'm not going to stop doing it, because even as I slip into legend it's just polite. If someone has gone through the effort to leave me their thoughts, it's not like their time isn't valuable and should be treated as such. Plus, it's good to leave the rarified air and slum with the common people a little, and it lets them know I'm actually really listening and appreciate their POV even if it doesn't necessarily match up with my own.

However, some things to keep in mind...

  • I don't send notes off to everyone, so don't take it personally if your inbox doesn't have a message from drunkenbatman in it. Sometimes it's because nothing at all is coming to mind, and sometimes because I'm planning on answering the question in another way sometime later because it's come up before or it's sparked something in my brain.

  • Do take note of the unread count in my inbox, and realize that if you respond to one of my little notes, if I don't respond back don't take it personally. I have a high typing speed, and try to be polite in responding to someone who sends me any form of communiqué, which can lead to me killing too much time typing out these long things while answering emails. Sometimes the vicious circle needs to be broken.

Still, while aspects of having comments and such open can grind me down sometimes, they've provided so much value to the site (and other readers) that I can't imagine not having them and do really value the effort given in them over time.

On a quick note, this strange question ended up in my inbox this morning too, so while we're here I figured I'd knock it out:

Just as a random mood, I've suddenly decided that there are way too many people calling themselves "batman"... So... what is with the "somethingbatman" naming craze? Does it have special meaning, or admit to an unhealthy interest in caped crusaders? Enquiring not-entirely-normal mind wants to know! :)

Stephen W.

Um, no real clue? Are there a bunch of people with batman in their name now? I noticed a few sites with 'drunken' or 'drunk' in their name recently, but I've been swamped enough that if there is some batman naming craze going on I'm out of the loop.

My 'nom de plume', aka 'handle', has been in use for years, and is an old nickname (I was young and stupid, and you will never hear the story behind it until the statute of limitation expires, so don't ask) from ages ago. I'll admit it took guts to keep it when "Batman and Robin" was in theaters, which was so bad it probably inspired no one to pick it up.

I kept it because the visual image it puts in people's minds is so amusing to me it far outweighs that they may be envisioning the giant rubber nipples of the earlier movies (Note: I did like the Burton movies, but they felt more like a cover song, and the latter were just horrifying).

There is a new 'Batman Begins' movie out (which, by the way, is quite good) and the hype was building for that for quite awhile. I know there's a phenomenon where, due to the power of suggestion and mindshare, when something has been going on with a celebrity newborn babies have a habit of picking up that celebrity's name...

yummy alcohol posted button Posted by drunkenbatman
    July 03, 2005, at 11:58 AM


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