Creepiness! Unusually, the kind where I'm the object instead of the subject.

As I haven't yet mentioned in this space, I'm currently a candidate for the community representative spot Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. The election continues until tomorrow at midnight, and it's a fairly safe bet that I won't win (there are a few reasons for this, but I won't go into them because it's not the point of this post).

In what might come as a surprise to people who have experienced my past involvement in different things, I've kept a fairly low profile on Wikipedia. I certainly never posted a picture of myself (though I immediately disclosed my identity, so anybody who had cared could probably have tracked one down). It's traditional for Board election candidates to do so, though, so I uploaded this one, because I thought it was fairly flattering and because I thought it exhibited a representative level of self-satisfaction:

Anyway, some time ago one of my opponents - Greg Kohs, who has a terribly interesting story of his own that I won't go into because that's not the point of this post - suggested that I looked like a young Richard Gere. That led to this homoerotic exchange.

I feel pretty...