Oh and also there is one (1) other Joshua Fruhlinger out there, though the two of us have both done blogging and tech writing/editing and so there is occasional confusion! At some point in the early '00s we wordlessly settled on a thing where I'm Josh Fruhlinger online and he's Joshua, but this usenet stuff was from…

OK, someone from Twitter alerted me to this discussion, and oh my god, yes, this is in fact me! This was my first year of grad school and I was pretty lonely and isolated and spent waaaaayyyy too much time (a) watching TV and (b) dicking around on Usenet. There are also an embarassingly high number of posts from me on…