Piercing the blogging veil
So, despite my best half-hearted attempts to conceal my identity, it has come to my attention that a growing number of you know who I am. My initial reaction was to go the Audacity route and just shut down. But I’m not going to do that. Frankly, because I enjoy this too much and I really don’t say anything here that I wouldn’t say to you in person. If you know me and think that I’m an idiot, then my work here is done.
I do have two requests, though. If you refer the blog to other pds or attorneys in CT, try not to refer to it by my real name. Second- and more important – what the heck are you people doing reading but not commenting? C’mon folks – start getting involved! There are plenty of you that know more about some of this stuff than I do. So chime in. Don’t leave me looking like a fool. That’s my job.
Otherwise I’ll be forced to send you all e-mails.
Thanks for reading 
For those of you who don’t know me, but are curious nonetheless, this is what I look like:
The photo has been updated. Now you’re all confused because you don’t know which one I am. HAH!
No, seriously, that’s my mortal enemy. This is me:
That’s Miranda in the background.
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about 4 years ago
Whew. That would have been a loss. Since I don’t know who you really are—I’m going to have to start investigating—I don’t know what
you have to fear about being exposed, but I’m glad to hear you decided to stick it out.
about 4 years ago
I don’t know that there’s anything to fear. It’s just uncomfortable knowing that a growing number of people who work with me (and are far more experienced) are reading this.
about 4 years ago
Really? There are people you work with who are more experienced than you, Lord Gideon? I am simply aghast by the mere thought…
about 4 years ago
I feel so left out.
about 4 years ago
Saucy: Yes. Both in my immediate office and obviously division wide. Now, stop it or I’ll out you too :p
Anne: Whatfor?
about 4 years ago
Won’t they definitely know who you are now? I mean, I’m just a law student, but how many robot PDs are there?
about 4 years ago
You’re right. I should change that picture. It’s not me, actually. It’s my sworn enemy – the Daleks. The last one alive in the universe, actually.
about 4 years ago
Lord Gideon reigns supreme.
::bows::
about 4 years ago
Now you’re pissing me off :-p
about 4 years ago
Actually, I’m IN Connecticut and I have no idea who you are. For all we know, you’re actually a prosecutor at heart. Come out to the world!
On second thought, you’ve got a good thing going….Keep it up.
about 4 years ago
Actually, someone outted you to me after I sent you the email inquiring as to your secret identity. Kinda creepy actually, since no one but you knew that I had asked. Left me in awe of your psychic powers actually.
Hey, I was impressed when I found out who you really were. Of course that could be because I’ve never actually spoken to you…;)
about 4 years ago
NolleQueen…
So, do you, like, hand ‘em out? Or get ‘em. Nolles, that is.
(I’ll refrain from kissing Lord Gideon’s feet, as it seems to piss him off.
)
about 4 years ago
NolleQueen: You’re going to have to tell me who outed me. Send me an e-mail. Also, I’m pretty sure that any favorable impression you have of me will almost certainly disappear upon meeting me in person. Just ask the SaucyVixen or Miranda. No one listens to me in the office.
SaucyVixen: You’re on your own tomorrow.
about 4 years ago
I’m really Gideon. I mean, Gideon’s really me. And I’m not SaucyVixen, just in case my wife is checking these comments.
about 4 years ago
I understand the whole fear thing. I was outed in a major way and I don’t know how it happened. Either I got careless online somehow or someone with an axe to grind did it. It’s definitely had a chilling effect. Although, since no one ever read my blog, it’s not a great loss. Another blogger I know of (who had a fairly good readership) went off the air after being outed. In that case, word reached the blogger the governmental “powers that be” were upset about critical statements in the blog.
about 4 years ago
Which is why I don’t write about my job specifically or the people I work with or my bosses or their bosses. Not that I have anything critical to say, but if someone did, it would be quite stupid of them to write about it on a semi-anonymous blog.
about 4 years ago
Well, I never thought of myself as being stupid, but I take your point. I got careless either in the cybersphere or trusted someone I shouldn’t have. The problem is trying to write about local issues without irritating someone. As I was told years ago, all education is expensive…
about 4 years ago
Sorry, didn’t mean for it to come across that way. I guess I’ve seen plenty of careers ruined because of blogs and unyielding bosses, that by now, I have no idea why anyone would do it.
Sorry it made things bad for you.
about 4 years ago
No worries. I appreciate you saying that. You do make a good point. I just wish I hadn’t been such a newbie when I started my blog. And I haven’t been harassed or criticized or had any feedback after the outting. I don’t know anyone who knows me has seen the spot where I’m ID’d, but knowing one’s name is out there is pretty creepy. I’ll shut up now. Love your blog and we all appreciate you managing PD Stuff. That’s as close as I’ll come to kissing your feet, Lord Gideon. Heh.
about 4 years ago
Thanks and thanks for reading