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Do you ever read other people's blog posts and make very personal judgements about them? Even if you don't know (or hardly know) that person in real life? I do that ALL THE TIME!

For example, everyone should check out this ass-funny post by the aforementioned Jon-El (see Dork Wannabe, below). On the surface, that post is 100% humor, but my friends, there is a much deeper meaning!

You see, Jon-El is what you'd call an Academia Lifer. You know, the kind of person who rummages around the university, "researching" one thing or another, all in pursuit of weird-ass letters to attach at the end of one's name. But Jon-El recently left the warm embrace of academia to make the big bucks in industry. But man, after I read that post, after doubling over in laughter, I thought some more and it really made me sad. It's like a guy who's thrown in jail for murder and he serves his time for several decades and then one day, his time is up -- he's paid his debt to society to so let him out. But the only life he really knew was the one behind bars. So what does he do? He commits a crime, just to be thrown back in jail.

Poor Jon-El.