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nickd on gratitude during the Christmas season:
if you have a lover, here is the most important thing that you can do. you should go over to that lover and tell them that you are grateful for their existence, and their love. because one very, very sacred thing that exists in this rather bleak-at-best world is knowing that someone out there gives such a passionate damn about you, your health, your success, and your well-being, and is willing to take you seriously and meet you halfway in their life.
The website of Nick Disabato (aka nickd) is the second link post I ever made from this website (that would’ve been back in the middle of 2002). In fact, his was the first blog I ever read regularly. I think that would’ve been around late 1998. Back then, he had this dark brown design (before dark brown was a popular color for t-shirts and websites) with some pixellated video game characters at the top, and he was funny. He was this geeky kid with curly hair who lived in the Chicago suburbs, built his own computer, and was transitioning from high school to college. Reading nickd.org was a strange thing since I was only accustomed to chatting online, requiring constant attention. In a chat, there is an actual, live conversation in real time. In contrast, reading blogs catches you up with other’s lives whenever you have time to spare. I see Facebook as a standardization of that communication format — instead of visiting 20 websites to check on 20 friends, you just load up Facebook and soak in the information overload. (For the record, I’m posting anything I want to save permanently here at tumbledry, and disposable nonsense at Facebook. I hope to be around here at tumbledry long after Facebook has evolved into something less useful.) Anyhow, reading nickd’s blog, I was experiencing for the first time that weird juxtaposition of intensely personal content yet highly public delivery that blogs and most forms of online expression have. The concept is aptly summarized in the title of comedian Mike Birbiglia’s blog: My Secret Public Journal.
nickd - Nick Disabato has a site called nickd.org - to say he runs it would be inaccurate. He owns it, updates in spurts, and occasionally completely changes it. Nick was formerly the primary news updater on a site called ticalc.org; his profile at that sight linked to his personal webpage. I can tell you I remember my days of forays into the TI calculator world with great fondness. Many people from the ticalc.org community wandered to Nick’s website via his profile and perhaps this is how the webpage developed a large following; I honestly don’t know. Strangely enough, it seems as though the website’s near-exclusive purpose is to communicate with Mr. Disabato’s close friends and family. Nevertheless, it is consistently interesting. I especially liked nick’s post from August 13th, 2000: “Today is the thirteenth. Since not everyone yet knows about my vehement superstition related to the number thirteen, let me tell you a few brief points: My great-grandmother died thirteen days before I was born. My grandmother died thirteen days after my thirteenth birthday, on the thirteenth. Now I don’t usually believe in superstition, and there’s always the chance that all this is coincidental, but… DAMN.”