{"id":191382,"date":"2009-08-24T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/24\/a-bit-of-meta-and-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T22:28:00","slug":"a-bit-of-meta-and-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/24\/a-bit-of-meta-and-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Meta, and Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 230px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img11.imageshack.us\/img11\/8103\/cerebusgraphic8729311.gif\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Aardvark<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I post in my own name, with my own face, albeit a face<sup>*<\/sup> from 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I came to the decision not to use pseudonyms when I was at school, and I realized that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">everyone<\/span> was calling me by my computer ID, Cerebus, as in Dave Sim&#8217;s comic book Aardvark, so I spent 2-3 years getting people to call me &#8220;Matthew&#8221; again.<\/p>\n<p>So, now I stick with my name.  It is a matter of personal aesthetics, not integrity, and no level of truth or integrity is intended by my use of my own name.<\/p>\n<p>If you think that I am right, follow the links, and confirm.<\/p>\n<p>If you think that I am wrong, follow the links, and confirm.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, one of the writers (probably multiple writers, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2009\/08\/21\/disaggregating-zero-hedge\/\">Felix Salmon<\/a>) who posts as &#8220;Tyler Durden&#8221; at the blog financial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/\">zero hedge<\/a>,  got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08212009\/business\/blogger_may_have_a_past_185653.htm\">outed by the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Post<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I figure an anonymous blogger who generates enough buzz to have someone hunt them down and out them deserves a look by me.<\/p>\n<p>Zero hedge is now on my blogroll.  They have an attitude, and I like attitude.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">And hair, which I miss.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Aardvark I post in my own name, with my own face, albeit a face* from 30 years ago. I came to the decision not to use pseudonyms when I was at school, and I realized that everyone was calling me by my computer ID, Cerebus, as in Dave &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1129,1118,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-journalism","category-meta","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}