This place is mine, I’m your host tycho garen. This page is, however, all about your questions. Here we go?
But who are you?
Academic. Blogger. Dancer. Geek. Journaler. Knitter. Queer. Social Scientist. Theorist. Writer.
I’ve been writing “journals” or “blogs” Web sites for so long that, not writing a Web site is harder than writing one. I’ve tried quitting, but I always fall of the bandwagon. Thankfully, blogging isn’t harmful to your health, just your social relationships.
What’s tychoish?
I started out with the intention of posting links and notes of things I was thinking about, lists of things I needed to do, and things I’d already done, and whatever other eccentricities seemed appropriate. A running log, for my own purposes, like the kind of running long that has always transpired in my paper notebook.
I failed.
tychoish.com is part a blog like the blogs we used to have when there were thirty of us, and we still called it a weblog. Ironcially, what’s old is new again, and people are doing old-style blogs, and calling them “tumble-logs.” For a good example see Anarchaia, bu the Project.ioni.st is good too. The other part of tychoish is a journal, of a sort of upscale version that sites like livejournal is rife with; In fact tychoish.com mirrors to it’s own LJ.
In the end, however, it’s just me and a keyboard, and I’m not good at playing by the rules. I hope you don’t mind.
tycho garen isn’t really your name, is it.
Not really, no. I think the internet is an amazing place, but I think it’s also a great deal different from the not-internet, and I think using different identifiers in different spheres is a good thing.
I’m divided on using this as a pen name as I move forward, particularly with regards to my fiction writing. I like playing with pseudonyms. I have a life, and a personality on the internet, and while it’s connected to the offline me–sam–it’s different.
I’ve thought about a couple of variants, including t. s. garen, but I don’t have anything yet. Thankfully, I have a while before I need to decide.
I can’t get enough tycho garen, where can I get more.
I’m tychoish on ravelry and twitter, and I have profiles on other websites as well. You find them and I’m all yours.
I have something I want you to post here or I have some other question for you? Can I email you?
Of course. There’s an email address in the top right hand corner of the site. I’d love to hear from you. You can also contact me via, AIM/Yahoo (id:tychoish), or name a time and place on IRC and I’ll be there. I’d love to hear from you.
Why isn’t tycho capitalized.
Because when you think about it, capitalizing names is kind of funny. And because it’s not really my name, I think there’s even less incentive to capitalize it. Ironically I think that as a non-capitalizer, tycho, is more off set than people whose names are capitalized. also I think Tycho looks funny.