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[AugustWest]

Here's an interesting article about an old-school internet community that is still hanging on. Even old-schooler than us.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/echo-growing-old-online/524577/

Good article.  Sounds pretty familiar.  Sort of heart-warming, really.  Do we need to make a pact that we'll come hang out at each other's deathbeds?

[wombat]

It might be the only way some of us will ever meet each other.

[Doc]

Ideally we should all meet at Onstad's deathbed.

[wombat]

But what if all the people in those Facebook groups are there too? We might not even be able to find each other in the crowd.

[Carlos del Vaca]

But what if all the people in those Facebook groups are there too? We might not even be able to find each other in the crowd.

They'll all be yelling at Paul, so we can just meet there.

[pmcd9]

They'll all be yelling at Paul, so we can just meet there.

I'll be like a beacon.

[theinevitable]

What is the right way to respond to this?

My friend's BF is involved in the same lefty political club as me, and also does a lot of stuff related to Judaism and social justice (peace between Israel/Palestine, interfaith dialogue, whatever). He constantly sends me email/facebook invites to this stuff... and I am not Jewish. I think it would be very weird for me to show up to these events. Do I just say... dude... I'm not Jewish? Or just keep ignoring the invites?

Now that I think about it, this could be a plot for me to meet some leftist jewish women.

[pmcd9]

Now that I think about it, this could be a plot for me to meet some leftist jewish women.

Jewish guys going with non Jewish women is such a common thing they have a name for it. They don't have a word for Jewish women going with non Jewish men*. I wonder why this is?

*I don't know if this is actually true.

[theinevitable]

I don't think they have a word, and it's kind of for a reason-- the tradition is that you are Jewish as long as you come from a Jewish womb. So if a Jewish woman gets with a goyish guy that's kind of fine. But if you're a Jewish dude and you go out chasing shiksas, your kids are NOT JEWISH and it's a SHONDA.

[wombat]

If he's interested in interfaith dialogue, how's that going to happen unless he invites people who aren't Jewish?

[theinevitable]

That was a bad example. The things he invites me to are like "JEWS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE"

[pmcd9]

My best friend is a Jew who's married to a Catholic. Both of his kids are technically Jewish. There's some paperwork involved.

[jaydub]

If the Y axis is {"people who piss me off" / "all people"}, it would actually mean you're doing better this year.

[wombat]

So I am having the... oddest, shall we say, experience with a job I interviewed for.

I got an email from the HR person last week saying she wanted to "touch base." We agreed on a 12.45 Friday call. At 11 am the phone rang and I saw her number so I picked up. She apologized for calling "a little early" but I said if she would just give me a minute, yes I had time to talk. I was in the middle of five things, I had to at least crate the dog and save a file and go upstairs to my office so we could talk quietly. When I got there - I swear it was not more than a minute - she was gone. Assuming we'd been cut off, I called back, but got voicemail. I also emailed to apologize and said I was still available.

No response, so I assumed she was going to call at the previously arranged time, so I made sure I was at my desk at that time. Nothing. I didn't hear anything till an email four hours later where she explained that she'd been working in a conference room which was why she didn't get my call. Which didn't explain why she didn't call again? And she said she would follow up Monday to arrange a time to talk.

It's 2 on Monday now and no word from her.  I don't know how to interpret this. I haven't interviewed for an actual job in so long I don't know what's normal, but this seems strange. If they are calling with an offer, this seems so disorganized at best, it seems like it would not be a good way to convince someone to work for their organization, don't you think? But could she really be calling to tell me no? These days people don't even bother to email to tell you you didn't get the job. In that context, setting up a phone call to tell me I didn't get it - and dragging it out this long - would be a cruel trick, like sending someone a fat envelope with a college rejection.

I am bewildered. I'd really just like to know what's going on so I can get on with my life. I have the email for the editor who interviewed me and will probably follow up with him tomorrow if I don't hear from her, but I am not sure what to say. If she hadn't contacted me I could just say I was wondering if he knew when they would make a decision. But now, I can't just not mention it, but am not sure what to say.

[wombat]

OMG. So this is the news she was trying to avoid delivering...  This extremely major media company went through the entire process of interviewing and deciding who they wanted to offer this remote position to, BEFORE checking whether they could legally hire someone who lives in Maryland. Which they can't.

They still want me to freelance for them, which is great, except now I'm back to being on tenterhooks to see what happens with the health care bill and whether I will just have to expect to die of not having health insurance when the Tech Staff retires soon.