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While I was at university, I had a very quirky roommate. She's still one of my best friends. The day I moved in, she came into my room as I was unpacking and said, "I'm going to look through all your stuff when you're not here. So you can go through my room if you want." I was gobsmacked. She was unrepentant. I resigned myself to the inevitable. In his most recent phlog entry, Solderpunk contended that phlogs are the great part of gopherspace and questioned what was special about the submerged 90%.[1] So let's go back to my roommate. She knew that eventually, if you have a roommate, you snoop a little. Maybe you're restrained about it. Maybe you're not. She had no restraint whatsoever, so she gave me advance notice. But here's the thing. It was liberating! I actually didn't care what was in her room. I don't recall ever rifling through her stuff, but I didn't worry about going into her room if I needed something. The rules were established. As for her, I assume she knew the contents of my sock drawer better than I did. Anyways, that's the great thing about the submerged 90% of the gopher iceberg (sorry for the horribly inappropriate metaphor, but I couldn't think of a gopher-based analogy, probably because I know nothing about gophers). You've opened up your rooms to me. I get to look into your interests in a different, less scripted way. In a phlog, you control how you present yourself. You choose particular topics. You're probably reticent about some things. You get into ruts too. You flatten your own character. But your gopher hole is different. It's a dump for the things that interest you. That's why it's so interesting. I could pick out a few people's burrows and go through what's great about them, but that would feel oddly creepy. Kind of like if my roommate had livestreamed her forays through my sock drawer. So I won't. But you should know that I'm going to look through your gopherhole when you're gone. So you can look through my stuff too. [1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7esolderpunk/phlog/gopherspace-the-tip-is-the-best.txt