[columbo]

> I do not think it's a bad thing to be able to be Googled; what's a bad thing is to let yourself be a jerk online

Ehhh, it's not always that.

For awhile I was big into writing speculative/science fiction on a popular writing site. Years later after reading some of my submissions I have to say I'm extremely happy that they were done under a pseudonym :)

They were absolutely terrible.

[MartinCron]

My favorite local video store (quaint, I know) organizes films by director and it's always encouraging to walk through there and see that even great directors sometimes make terrible movies.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Fair enough. :)

There are places for pseudonymity. My name here isn't my real name, I should note, though it probably wouldn't be hard to trace it to my identity.

It isn't as easy for someone to Google and find an HN comment I made, but I still try to keep things clean here.