So I was having an interesting conversation with another blogger in the accursed 140 character bursts that Twitter limits you too.  The conversation took an interesting turn when the blogger, out of nowhere, called me pious.

Now I don’t know about you, but when I think about being pious, I think about monks in a monastery chanting.  I found that an interesting choice of words.  Purist?  Sure.  Conservative?  Okay.  Pious?  Really???  So let’s check the dictionary…

Pious

pi · ous

1 a: marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship b: marked by conspicuous religiosity
2: sacred or devotional as distinct from the profane or secular : religious
3: showing loyal reverence for a person or thing : dutiful
4 a: marked by sham or hypocrisy b: marked by self-conscious virtue : virtuous
5: deserving commendation : worthy

Hmmm.  Okay, so with the exception of possibly number 5, I don’t see how that applies to me.  Really now, it isn’t like I get up every morning, kneel before the computer, and recite the Blog’s Prayer:

The Blog’s Prayer

Our Blog, which art on server
APODB is thy name
The visitors come
Thy CSS be done, in FireFox as it is in IE
Give us this day our daily pageviews,
And forgive us our feedreaders, as we forgive those who read us through feed
And lead us not into CPM Ads
But deliver us from AdSense
For thine is THE word, and THE images, and THE comments, ‘til our PayPal account runs out
Amen.

So obviously if this person feels I’m pious, there must be a reason.  It is entirely possible that they see something about me that I myself do not see, so for that reason I am asking for your help.

I am whipping out the old Johari and Nohari windows.  You get to pick 5 words that describe me in both a positive (Johari) and a negative (Nohari) word square.  So now I’m trusting you to click over and answer HONESTLY.

Please… and prove this accusation of piety wrong!!!