Hmmmm........

I work with Karen.  She's one of the most helpful, competent and all around knowledgeable people that I've had the pleasure of being aquainted with.  Many's the time when she's gone far above and beyond in providing me (and others) with her personal time.  She's productive.  And she's a friend.

She doesn't hang around tiny (read: TINY) websites with an insular, self-congratulatory gang of a dozen-or-two self-important individuals who spend their free time snickering and pointing like a smirking bunch of socially promoted fifth-graders.  Pointing in derision  at those who have actually achieved something.

I fully understand why some are ignored.  About in the same manner that I choose to ignore the long-haired, long-bearded man standing on the streetcorner who mutters angrily at passerby.  I'm sure that in his own mind: he's convinced that he's a genius.  But should I, for that reason -- stop to seriously consider the things that he's muttering in my direction?  Nahhhhhh.

In reality: such persons are a minor nuisance.  shrug But no more than that.  They're certainly not achievers in their own right.  So about the best that they can do is to show up whenever they think that they've detected the smell of blood in the water........even when it's only their delusional imaginations playing tricks on them yet again.

Uh.......here's an open question for anyone:  tell me.........exactly when was it that Renderosity was supposed to disappear again...........?  I seem to recall hearing an awful lot of dire predictions to that effect in the distant past.

Hmmmm.  I suppose that those self-appointed prognosticators of yore must have been wrong.  Utterly, totally, and completely wrong.

But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting to hear them admit just how wrong they've been all of these years.  They might choke on the words.

On the other hand, I have to admit to a different possibility -- perhaps the Rendo admins actually know what they are doing.  As grating as the clear evidence of the ever-growing numbers at the top of the page must be to some.

Some make a career out of creating things.  Others make a career out of sniping at the creators.  Iconoclasts are always irrisitably attracted to icons.........and that's one way of telling when something's arrived.  Or when it is well on it's way.

Renderosity is a website on the move.  A business that's growing steadily, day by day.  I'd tend to ignore the children standing next to the tracks and throwing an occasional rock at the passing multi-ton train, too.  Little bits of gravel just bounce right off fast-moving iron.

Better to go hang around with the gang at the smouldering barrel in the railyard.  There's a small, huddled group who always hang around the rusted-out barrel.  I'm sure that they'll all be able to tell you just how much better they'd be at driving the train that just flew past them than the engineer at the controls is.  Or how much better they'd be at building the train than the company that actually built it.

Karen doesn't need my help.  She's more than able to fend for herself.  But well-deserved contempt needs to be poured on the contemptuous.  My suggestion: go back to the rusty barrel.  There might even be a can of barrel-warmed baked beans being shared around.  If they were able to find any in the dumpster located next to the railhouse, that is.  The railhouse with the sign that says "Renderosity" in lights up on the marquee.

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