Social Flying

It's dark out. Not surprising, the dim dawn on this 1st day of English winter is hours away. What light there is outside the train is reflected back from the snow. Snow insufficient to form a useful projectile, yet enough to make me late (later).

I've spent the last week in a PWP (Post whore party) on FlyerTalk. The key word there is actually "post": you post as often as you can about anything before a deadline in order to win the trip of a lifetime. And on FlyerTalk that means something.

We end with just under 100,000 posts. 100,000 in which was built an instant community. That which is built, endures: a Babylon 5 Delenn quotation that was one of my 2351 posts. It is hard to write even 2351 random things and not reveal some of yourself. And the same is true of everyone else. It is fitting that my first experience of this was 13 years ago in the Usenet group aus.sf.babylon5. That community eventually led me to QUMS, and from there to AUCS. There are two small people at home who owe their existence to this among many connections.

In the PWP this week, I won a coffee. Starbucks, yes, but hey, it's better than National Rail coffee!


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