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I like to think of myself as being sneaky and devious. Sometimes my work-mate Jon Patell and I discuss how much cunning a particularly difficult task took us to accomplish.
Well friends, tonight my cunning is cranked to 11. In honour of Valentine’s Day, Internation Singles Awareness Day, and Hallmark International Highest Revenue Day, I shall take my pretty wife to the Marriot Hotel for dinner. We did this last year, where I presented her with airline tickets to go to New Brunswick. In New Brunswick later that May, I happened to propose to her.
Tonight, in honour of the passing of 365 calendar days, I shall give her airline tickets to…
Finland!
I’ve been thinking lately how the internet seems to have brought a candidness to business that I don’t see paralleled elsewhere. It seems that the Age of the Internet has become in parts an Age of Sillyness. Especially when it comes to company names, identification, and other things involving names.
Companies like Google and Yahoo for instance. Two of the most influential companies online today, publicly traded and all. I can’t think right now of any companies before who have had such strange names and have not been niche market type companies. What about HotBot? That admittedly didn’t last long in the limelight though… or BigFoot. How about Red Hat Linux, or anything Linux really. What about Skype? Napster even.
Similar is accepted forms of ID. I called Xbox Live Customer Support a few days ago to cancel my membership. I was immediately asked what my gamertag was; I felt a little funny having to say – and spell – RancorDeath. But it could have been worse! Ipwnnewbs, for instance, or W0lfT1t$. Or any of these:
ViewtifulVirus
Splinter21
bendak
DazedNConfuzed
GrumpyMicrobe
sinisterDonkey
Divine Tyrant
StormHawk
CureYouAllMen
WastedAdvance
SittingDuck85
Clawgrip
DJ Doubledown
Frankie
I could go on forever.
What made it acceptable for an adult male to say RancorDeath to another adult male, without one of them laughing? The Internet I say… and maybe it was a good thing too.
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