{"id":101,"date":"2003-11-08T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T21:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2003-11-08T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2003-11-08T21:52:54","slug":"a-joe-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/11\/a-joe-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Joe by any other name…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexis<\/A> pointed out that I had neglected to include “Joe@” on my list of nicknames on my survey<\/a> page (it seems like I get sent another batch of these every six months or so, so I just merged a bunch of them
\ntogether and answered on the webpage, and direct folks to that when they send me a new one). That omission has now been rectified (thanks for pointing it out,
\nAlexis, and those McVities’ chocolate caramel biscuits sound awesome…they only have the Digestives and High Tea at Spec’s<\/A>, but I love them both).<\/p>\n

It occurs to me, though, that most folks don’t know the stories of the various nicknames, so here they are:
\n


\n
Joe Carl
Don’t know if that really counts as a nickname, since it is my legitimate name (for more on, see my name
\npage<\/A>. First usage that I recall was by Gordon Baxter on a very sentimental radio program on KVLU after I graduated from Rice; currently used by one of my
\nclients.
\n
Joe C
Another obvious one, used primarily by Greg Kahn
\n
Joe@
A bunch of Rice folks invited me to play Mafia with their group in 2001. There was already a Joe playing, and it got a bit confusing, so someone
\n(anyone recall?) dubbed me Joe@, since I had my own domain. Used pretty much exclusively by the RLOS<\/a> bunch.
\n
Capn
The summer after my freshman year in college, I was a counselor at a church camp. One night the inspiration struck me to don a helmet made of
\nwatermelon rind, a cape made of a beach towel, and a hockey stick, and I dubbed myself Captain Idiot. The rest of the week all the kids referred to me as the
\nCap’n. When I came back to school that fall, I had my first exposure to what we now call IMing. The ‘nick’ I selected was Capn. Used to this day by Luigi Bai<\/a>
\n
MacDaddy
Based upon my love of the Macintosh<\/A> computers. Used mainly by Eb Keshavarz and John Tran.
\n<\/DL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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