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--- user:grahamperrin [2024/11/13 03:09] – Demotion to a footnote for The FreeBSD Forums. grahamperrin
+++ user:grahamperrin [2024/11/13 06:40] (current) – Work around the formatting bug that loses white space. grahamperrin
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 Mugshot in places such as [[https://gitlab.com/grahamperrin|GitLab]]: from a 2018 holiday in Greece.
-Avatar in places such as [[https://github.com/grahamperrin|GitHub]], The FreeBSD Forums, and BSD Cafe: [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/forestservicenw/23273672529/|a bunny rabbit]]. Partly because it's less confusing than a 1970 vision of a faraway planet, but more because:
+Avatar in places such as [[https://github.com/grahamperrin|GitHub]] and BSD Cafe: [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/forestservicenw/23273672529/|a bunny rabbit]]. Partly because it's less confusing than a 1970 vision of a faraway planet, but more because:
-  * bunny rabbits.
+  * **bunny rabbits**.
+Think about them. Think: bunny rabbits. Feel better? //I do//.
-Think about them. Think: bunny rabbits. Feel better? I do.
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-**Footnote**: bunny rabbits tried valiantly, ultimately failed, to spread happiness at the Forums (all profiles, including [[https://forums.freebsd.org/members/grahamperrin.35084/#about|mine]], are hidden from the public).
+**Footnote**: bunny rabbits tried valiantly, ultimately failed, to spread happiness at the Forums.
-I joined in 2012, quit in June 2022, rejoined in October 2023. The May 2024 transformation – from //Graham Perrin//  to **//Cath O'Deray//**  – was:
+I joined in 2012, quit in June 2022, rejoined in October 2023. All profiles, including [[https://forums.freebsd.org/members/grahamperrin.35084/#about|mine]], are hidden from the public. The May 2024 transformation – from //Graham Perrin//  to **//Cath O'Deray//**  – was:
   * largely for giggles ([[https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/467/713/668/554/284/original/587211c0e8d9773a.png|avatar: a cathode ray tube]]) whilst continuing to provide technical support – with screenshots, as one might expect from a CRT TV screen
-  * harmonious with whims of the intolerant, narrow-minded [[https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/ignoramus|ignoramus]] clique that insists upon //The Power To Serve//  minus the modernity of links to a twenty-first century Internet that exists beyond The FreeBSD Forums.
+  * harmonious with whims of the intolerant, narrow-minded [[https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/ignoramus|ignoramus]] clique that insists upon "The Power To Serve" __without__  the modernity of serving links to a twenty-first century Internet that exists beyond The FreeBSD Forums.
-Readers with a sense of humour might note that Cath's primary occupation was //tube//. Her secondary occupation, not divulged during her time there: //statistical analysis//  – a five-month contract, which involved removal of Graham's content (hundreds of links). Conclusion:
+Readers with a sense of humour might note that Cath's primary occupation was //Tube//. Her secondary occupation, not divulged during her time there: //Statistical Analyst//  – a five-month contract, which involved removal of a few hundred links to the Internet. (She didn't pay attention to all 8,000+ comments, only the subset that was found through normal web browsing.) Conclusion:
   * links to the FreeBSD subreddit – one of the clique's irrational obsessions – formed less than 0.005% of what's now gone.