Names are important. True names, use names, nicknames; they're all important. This is one of those things that everyone going into computer related fields should learn, which these days is nearly everyone.
Rick, who is also "Richard" in the world of legal documents, and "Rik" to those who knew me in my teen years when I still believed that spelling reform and the adoption of the metric system were right around the corner, and "Egon" to those who knew me when I moved to Madison and joined a social circle that already had seven people named Richard in it, and these days the handle "rdkeir" which is my email address in many places is becoming my common designation.
The naming of cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter
When I tell you a cat must have three
different names.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Date: 2006-08-16 05:09 pm (UTC)Rick, who is also "Richard" in the world of legal documents, and "Rik" to those who knew me in my teen years when I still believed that spelling reform and the adoption of the metric system were right around the corner, and "Egon" to those who knew me when I moved to Madison and joined a social circle that already had seven people named Richard in it, and these days the handle "rdkeir" which is my email address in many places is becoming my common designation.