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on user IDs and middle initials
That's cute. I accidentally got an old email address back -- not that I really intend to use it for incoming mail.
Once upon a time, I had a dial-up Unix shell account from Telerama. Customer support was pretty poor. Eventually I moved my shell account (and email) to JTAN, which provides fantastic service for $99/year. No dialup, but I don't care. (So Telerama has come a long way in the customer-service department, it would seem.)
The new Telerama DSL account comes with two mailboxes, and I wanted one for the occasional piece of mail that I want to send to or from my machine directly. Mostly I will ignore incoming mail to this address, just like I've done with the Verizon address. You should not send me mail at Telerama. (Use pobox.)
When they set up my mailbox this afternoon, they gave me my old ID back. mjc@telerama.com lives again. :-)
I used to use "mjc" everywhere, because that's what the CS department at CMU handed me. (This was an improvement over my CMU TOPS-20 ID.) When I eventually signed up for pobox.com forwarding, "mjc" was taken so I took "cellio". Since then, I've used "cellio" everywhere. I've come to prefer it, actually. I don't like my middle name and don't use the initial (or name) if I can possibly help it any more. The person my parents named me after (for that name) is now dead, so I don't feel like I have to worry about offending her. And I think I'm probably the most internet-savvy Cellio out there, and I got there first, so if my father or a cousin or something wanted that ID from any service we both use, tough. :-)
Once upon a time, I had a dial-up Unix shell account from Telerama. Customer support was pretty poor. Eventually I moved my shell account (and email) to JTAN, which provides fantastic service for $99/year. No dialup, but I don't care. (So Telerama has come a long way in the customer-service department, it would seem.)
The new Telerama DSL account comes with two mailboxes, and I wanted one for the occasional piece of mail that I want to send to or from my machine directly. Mostly I will ignore incoming mail to this address, just like I've done with the Verizon address. You should not send me mail at Telerama. (Use pobox.)
When they set up my mailbox this afternoon, they gave me my old ID back. mjc@telerama.com lives again. :-)
I used to use "mjc" everywhere, because that's what the CS department at CMU handed me. (This was an improvement over my CMU TOPS-20 ID.) When I eventually signed up for pobox.com forwarding, "mjc" was taken so I took "cellio". Since then, I've used "cellio" everywhere. I've come to prefer it, actually. I don't like my middle name and don't use the initial (or name) if I can possibly help it any more. The person my parents named me after (for that name) is now dead, so I don't feel like I have to worry about offending her. And I think I'm probably the most internet-savvy Cellio out there, and I got there first, so if my father or a cousin or something wanted that ID from any service we both use, tough. :-)
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wait! lemme guess!
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My "aunt" Jane was a wonderful lady, and perhaps I'll write more about her later. (I actually did so as part of a sermon once.) She wasn't biologically my aunt but rather the best friend of my mother, who is an only child.
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So, any more 'non-relatives'? I have an aunt who's not my aunt, which means I have cousins who aren't really my cousins. My real aunt's youngest sister is my own age, so she was more comfortable with cousin Kathy then aunt Kathy, etc. etc. etc.
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I haven't actually seen Paula and Carl (who live in California) since I was in high school, though we still do the ritual exchanging of wrapped presents in December (followed by the ritual exchanging of thank-you notes in January). I don't really feel any connection to them, but my parents think they would be hurt if I didn't keep up my end of this routine so I do.