At what distance does someone following behind you into a building have to be before it’s OK not to hold the door for them?

There’s a problem at both ends of the spectrum…

Too close and you try and pull-off the zing-n-fling. You zing the door open and then fling it as you go through to keep the door from closing on the person following on your heels. This can backfire when they’re slower than you anticipated and now they are awkwardly reaching for the door handle that’s accelerating away from them.

Either way, you look like a schmuck because you’ve admitted that you knew someone was there, you just didn’t bother to hold the door for them.

Too far away is also a problem. Here, you debate whether or not to hold the door. The zing-n-fling wont cut it. But if they’re just a bit too far away, then you create extreme anxiety on the part of the other person as they race to the opened door.

Then there’s that gray area. You might be able to get away with not holding the door, but maybe not. Then you get into a little foot race with the other person, thinking, “if I speed up and increase the gap, then there’s no question that I don’t need to hold the door!”.

Last, we have the “open-door-loafer”. This is the person that you’ve held the door for and then they go as slow as possible getting there. They may even pretend that they don’t see you holding the door. When they get to the door, they act surprised, “Oh, thanks”…implying…”I didn’t see you there”. Yeah right.

Hey….get the door yourself and save everybody the stress

Welcome back!

He's Back folks!

Back due to no demand whatsoever!

Robneville.net was off the air for quite some time. I had gotten jaded with blogging and the original intent that I had for this blog was lost. Then, the unthinkable happened and my little duct tape and bubblegum server that was hosting the site puked its guts out while simultaneously my USB flash drive that held the backups to the site decided that it wasn’t formatted anymore and the entire filesystem went bye-bye.

Nice.

So, given that I was pissed off about blogging at the time anyway, I just let it go.

Well, I’m back with a vengeance now (not really but it sounds neat). I’ve got the domain on a proper hosting account instead of a computer run by two hamsters running on little wheels in the corner of my nerd cave. No dynamic DNS, no crappy cron job backup routines, but that’s not the most important thing! No the most important thing is what I’m going to write about. Those of you who remember the old blog at robneville.net probably got used to my attempt to focus what I wrote about to the “human aspects of technology”. Well, not anymore….

I’ve decided that the reason I got tired of blogging is because I was trying to follow someone else’s rules….

“You’re supposed to blog about a very tight niche”

“You’re supposed to blog on topic”

“Don’t blog about too many topics or you’ll alienate your readership”

Well, I have one thing to say to that…..

BLEEEECCCCHHHHH!!!

Screw it! I needed to redefine success. This site started as an outlet for ME. It started as a place to share photos. It started as a place for me to rant if I felt like it…wax poetic if I felt like it.

Hey, that’s MY NAME ON THE TOP, I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT!!!

So, success for RobNeville.net 2.0?

If I’m having fun writing for it, then it’s working.

“But Rob, what if you’re the only one who ever reads it!!???” – who cares. At least then I know that I’m being true myself.

So, brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride of randomness. I get into all sorts of crap. That’s why I’ve choosen the new tagline – Renaissance Geek. That’s probably a better description of my interests and probably a better description of me.

If you find any of what I write interesting, great. If not, great.