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Where's Bella?
I've been reading this forum for a few years now, but depending on school/work, I have missed a few weeks. Some time ago, Bella stopped posting regularly (or even semi-regularly), but I never saw anything that indicated why. I know he flared a lot of tempers, but I always got a kick out of his posts. In my opinion, Bella made this forum a must-read. Right now, it's still good, but let's be frank... it was a lot more interesting back in the day.
So... what gives?
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Friday, November 14, 2003
He finally dissapeared up his own a-hole.
Friday, November 14, 2003
I don't know, but Bella's last few posts were rather humanizing. Here's one thread I remember him being active in.
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=76083
www.MarkTAW.com
Friday, November 14, 2003
Bella's still here. He never stopped posting under his other names. Check the Web DNA traces to make the connections.
Observationalist
Friday, November 14, 2003
Web DNA? OK, I'm there:
http://www.usabilitymustdie.com/jos/WW_DNA.html
How the heck is this supposed to be used to correlate identities? It displays the posting frequency on a graph where the X axis is the day of the month.
If you just go by the 'shape' of someone's DNA, Joel himself "looks" a lot like Bella...
Bored Bystander
Friday, November 14, 2003
Bella's posts in most cases spot on, you might not like them but hey....
Prakash S
Friday, November 14, 2003
Web DNA is fun. Though if you change your ID by a single character it throws everything off.
http://www.usabilitymustdie.com/jos/WW_CommentsFor_8139.html
Friday, November 14, 2003
Yo, Bella, where you at, dog?! Holla back!
Where's Bella?
Friday, November 14, 2003
Bella made millions on the JoS forum in the past year (anyone with half a brain could) and has retired.
Do not use HTML tags. Surround URLs with spaces.
Friday, November 14, 2003
What the heck is a "Bella?" I been reading this forum for a while, and I don't recall any Bella ever posting here. Was he a no-talent ass-clown?
talented ass-clown
Friday, November 14, 2003
No, Bella obviously has a great deal of talent and zero tolerance for those who did not, but he was extremely negative and often offensive.
old_timer
Friday, November 14, 2003
Bella usually played several roles in graduated degrees of obnoxiousness: gadfly; "suffer no fools" curmudgeon; toughlove-gone-nazi "coach".
Many times I've silently agreed with the ultimate point of his rants, but he tended to attack fairly inoffensive and relatively clueful people with zeal and abandon because they didn't share his priorities or did not share the big picture to which he laid claim. I usually read this stuff as having much more to do with Bella's internal demons than with the other poster's need for "reality".
I've worked around quite a few programmers and *very* many engineers like Bella. It's a typical "bitter high level experienced technical guy who flies off the handle with hardly any provocation" schtick.
Bored Bystander
Friday, November 14, 2003
I always imagined Michael Douglas in "falling down" frantically typing in Bella's posts.
another pseudonym
Friday, November 14, 2003
Hmm. I always assumed that Bella was just a pseudonym that people used when they wanted to abrasively say something controvertial and didn't want it associated with their usual handle. I know I've done that.
I mean, I know that there was somebody who originally used the handle, but I thought that it had passed into general usage as a bit of JoS forum convention.
Bill Tomlinson
Friday, November 14, 2003
-- I always assumed that Bella was just a pseudonym
Will the real Bella please stand up?
Iceberg Slim Shady
Friday, November 14, 2003
Conversely, Alyosha` is the pseudonym when someone wants to say something really STUPID but doesn't want their real identity attached to it.
Alyosha`
Friday, November 14, 2003
"Hmm. I always assumed that Bella was just a pseudonym that people used when they wanted to abrasively say something controvertial and didn't want it associated with their usual handle"
Yeah - just like everyone uses "Philo" when they want to post something insightful and witty.
Come on - you don't think *I* do all this stuff, do you?
Philo
Phi1o
Friday, November 14, 2003
"Come on - you don't think *I* do all this stuff, do you?"
I figured it was probably Rick Chapman!
Mr Obnoxious Man
Friday, November 14, 2003
Hey, and what about me` ?
Alan Smithee
Friday, November 14, 2003
Could we make a list of the different approved pseudonyms so I know which ones I am supposed to use.
I feel like such a dumbass
Friday, November 14, 2003
I miss Bella.
Yeah, he was a first-class jerk most of the time, but admit it...He was entertaining!
Mark Hoffman
Friday, November 14, 2003
I'm sure Joel could tell us who everyone is with an SQL statement, as I'd bet that IP addresses are recorded when you post. I'm glad he doesn't.
Friday, November 14, 2003
Bella siting (Nov. 13):
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/newyork/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=1132&ixReplies=4
Doesn't prove anything, but either he's alive and well and just got sick of /bored with us, or the AI program that implements his online personality can only post to one forum a week. LOL (ok, that was uncalled for. I suck.)
Bored Bystander
Saturday, November 15, 2003
I thought Zone Alarm gave you a spoofed IP address so people couldn't keep track of you.
Stephen Jones
Saturday, November 15, 2003
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
Care to test that, Stephen Jones?
www.MarkTAW.com
Saturday, November 15, 2003
Glad to see there is a small cadre of people here who appreciated the "in your face"/"back to basics"/"KISS"/"Common sense" *core values* of my maniacal postings, despite their audacious tone. For the record, I have only posted under "Bella". I do recall someone else posting as "Bella", but that was brief.
I haven't posted much b/c
a) I've been somewhat busy.
b) I've mostly said all I ever wanted to say about IT. If you look thru my posting history, the topics I participated in generally dealt with career management, quality of life, the "age discrimination" excuse, and inflated IT salaries.
http://www.usabilitymustdie.com/jos/WW_CommentsFor_4066.html
If anyone cares to maintain correspondence outside of JOS, feel free to e-mail me at jos_bella@hotmail.com and I'll throw you into my address book. I comment maniacally on many things outside of programming
I do like Bored Bystander's postings, he's a sharp guy... but, I am not the "militant tekkie" I portray on JOS. Actually, at work, I am quite friendly & agreeable , and in fact, have made many personal friendships that have long outlasted our tenures at the place we worked together. I still visit people I worked w/ back in 1997, and still e-mail people I stopped working with in 1995.
Bella
Saturday, November 15, 2003
> If anyone cares to maintain correspondence outside of JOS
Time for BellaOnLife.com ?
www.MarkTAW.com
Saturday, November 15, 2003
Bella, I find it VERY hard to believe that you've said all that there is to say about IT and technology employment. After all, there's still a lot of people out there about to f*** up their careers or their lives whom you need to call on it. ;-)
And I didn't doubt for a second that your meatspace demeanor was considerably different than your internet behavior. You're still alive, after all. :-)
PS: actually, I agree with your impatience in many situations. I'm just reluctant to flame someone I don't know with very good reason because I don't know where they are in their lives. Most advice is pretty conditional...
Bored Bystander
Saturday, November 15, 2003
So I was right, Bella did retire.
This is in line with his "I never do anything without a good reason" style of posting. I.e. - "it's not that I got a life and don't spend as much time in loser forms as I used to, but that I made a deliberate decision to stop posting once I got everything out of JoS that I had intended to get out of it." As if he came here with an exit strategy in mind.
Do not use HTML tags. Surround URLs with spaces.
Sunday, November 16, 2003
This is by far the funniest set of postings I've read in a long time - I came across a post on.... don't remember now, there was some 'classic' Bella [and I thought Bella was female, because I've know a couple of Bella's - both female ;)] - any who...
I then became intrigued in a reply by Joe SixPack which ultimately made me type in Bella in the search box on the page.
What followed was a listing of Bella posts, of which this was one.
You all are hilarious in your conclusions and suppositions, and commend you all. Obviously (now I'm asking for it) you all are intelligent, and this 'search' for Bella was brilliant.
Thanks for cheering up an almost miserable day at the orifice (office) and helping me attain that balance that tekkies generally have no idea aboot (Canadian pronounciation).
Muchas Grassy Ass and thanks for the entertainment!
Kal
Monday, April 19, 2004
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