29th March 2003, 7:19 PM
Whenever I get something online and they ask for my real name, I just give them my nick. No one's going to bother to check or anything when mailing something so long as the address is correct. LL knows my address, but I've moved twice since then. He also MIGHT know my name if he examined an e-mail I sent him a while back when I was too stupid to bother hiding that data (and thus likely would know my gender), but that's the only person here I e-mailed when I didn't bother hiding data (it was using my old hotmail address besides, I think). If he does know, he either totally forgot or is exactly as nice as I think he is and hasn't done a thing with it. I also make a point of not storing my name on ANY fields in my computer, so even a hacker wouldn't be able to find out what it is (unless another person using my computer entered it somewhere, but even then it would be in the context of them, so it wouldn't be totally certain anyway). By the by, until I came up with this current nick (which by the way actually seems to be getting used by people other than me, a bad sign) I couldn't ever manage to put in a unique name in ANYTHING. There are already over 60000 Donkey Kongs you say? 200000000 different Terras? In fact, in frustration often I'd punch in random letters until I actually found something unused (this is a tactic many of my friends use when using battle.net on my machine, apparently dsakadfads is a pre-registered name :D), and write that down. Some random combinations weren't even unique enough, so I ended up putting "64" behind anything that wasn't unique enough to make it unique (of course, now that won't work). Most of those old random name things I've forgotten about completely though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)