Poking Out from Behind the Curtain

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great and Powerful Oz has spoken!" -- The wizard

I've come to a place. It's a place I'm not entirely comfortable with, but then I never am comfortable. So I suppose that's irrelevant.

I've come to the place where the Wraith Surfer is no longer needed. You see, I watched the World Wide Web grow from its infancy, and saw the stories on TV about how people were hunted down and stalked based on information they gave away on the Internet. And I was intimidated. I still am. So when I ventured out into the Web myself for social reasons, I did so under a guise. I didn't want spammers taking my e-mail address, so I used an anonymous webmail account for anything I thought might cause spam to be generated. And it was! I get a TON of spam at that account. That much was a great idea!

But then I began to find my friends online. And I tried to come out to play, but they didn't recognize me behind the space suit of the Wraith Surfer. Today (sniff) I was taken to task by a friend for "hiding". I was hiding, but only from the strangers! Well, the disguise was too good, and even my friends were leery.

So today, the suit comes off. The steps I already took on YouTube to lose the Wraith persona not come to my other accounts. I'm going to be "dan'l" again. Ok, so it's still a persona, but it's the one I wear at home. Deal with it.

Time to put Major Matt Mason away, and find a decent portrait of my own self to put up. It isn't there yet, but keep an eye out for it. I'll find something.

Props to Bonnie for poking me. :-)

Now, where did I leave the keys to that balloon?

-dan'l