Threatened, Gotta Cut Back

What is it like to be so cowardly that you have to threaten somebody's livelihood in order to make sure they don't express themselves on the Internet?

Where I work, there's no problem with using the computers to a moderate degree for personal business, and I am allowed more free time during the day than I spend on this. But who needs their boss getting calls from weirdos?

Some lovely person has emailed me, threatening to cause trouble for me at work if I post here during the day.

My personal life is not part of this, I keep quiet about myself. But let me say, besides raising two teenagers I do a lot of things during the day. I work in survey methods and am also a pioneer of sorts in a particular field of artificial intelligence. I manage a team of software developers, and stay up to date on technological stuff not only on the Internet but new hardware and software computing paradigms, programming techniques and statistical techniques. I publish in psychology and computer-science journals. I wrote a book about my research that sold quite well and Michael Crichton recently based one of his novels partly on my ideas (it wasn't the one about global warming). I play in a band, am learning Spanish, and can throw a knuckleball that you'll never hit.

I don't just sit at the computer wasting time playing with Blogger, in other words.

And here I am dealing with people who have to bring you down however they can.

OK, I won't blog in the daytime.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

--Sorry, this is more than I intended to say on the subject.