Edited by lblake  at: 9/11/00 10:19:27 pm

cello_suttonr@hotmail.com

I'm not sure if my email is public or not. Might be a good thing to know.

As for why I don't use my real name for my User Name, is simply because I like "Matthias" more than I like "Aaron." There is an abundance of Aaron's in this world, and not too many Matthias's and I enjoy being unconventional. (sometimes. other times, tradition is best.)Although, "Matthias" is more plausible to be my actual name than some other people's user names.
Plus, if my parents had any imagination at all, my name would be different. The story is that they opened the book of baby names to the first page, and "Aaron" being the first name they saw, they stopped the search and settled on that.

~ Aaron ~

Edited by: MaryK  at: 9/26/00 2:50:41 pm

Well, I only have my partial name, although my real whole name has been mentioned on this board before (not by me, though). Still, I do try to avoid giving it, because I am a girl, and I've always been taught that we girls have to be especially cautious. I do have fierce, beastly dogs to protect me, but still.... Perhaps more of us are girls than you think?

Another guess I would have is that some people might want to vent through an alter-ego, and this really isn't an inappropriate place to do it, I suppose. MaryK has a point: how do we really know that your name is even Todd French? (personally, I believe it is, but I couldn't produce concrete evidence of it right now. )

Oh, and the other reason I would guess is just because it's fun, and clever, and yet another way to be creative. And after all, the trend in user-ID's (at least in my experience) has never really been to use your real whole name, as spaces aren't "allowed" in many types of software. So when starting up here, many people might use the same ID's they use somewhere else.

Hey - and isn't "42" the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

Edited by: lblake  at: 9/26/00 2:42:59 pm