[META] Writer's Block: The name game
Feb. 1st, 2011 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The user name "rfmcdpei" was originally my AOL Instant Messenger name, something that I picked back in the desperate days of February 2002 so I could chat in real time with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lifein2x3. I've never been very good with titles, as you may have noticed, and "rfmcdpei"--Randy Franklin McDonald from PEI--was an easy enough choice.
Am I going to keep it? No. Apart from the name being rather difficult to remember--saying that at least it's not a Mayan glyph is faint praise indeed--ever since October's firebombing of a gay couple's home reminded me of the Island's long (if slowly dying) tradition of communal hatred I've been wondering why I continue to name my blog after the place. I already renamed my Flickr and Twitter accounts. Livejournal is coming later this month. "randyfmcdonald" is nice and memorable, don't you think?
The user name "rfmcdpei" was originally my AOL Instant Messenger name, something that I picked back in the desperate days of February 2002 so I could chat in real time with
lifein2x3. I've never been very good with titles, as you may have noticed, and "rfmcdpei"--Randy Franklin McDonald from PEI--was an easy enough choice.Am I going to keep it? No. Apart from the name being rather difficult to remember--saying that at least it's not a Mayan glyph is faint praise indeed--ever since October's firebombing of a gay couple's home reminded me of the Island's long (if slowly dying) tradition of communal hatred I've been wondering why I continue to name my blog after the place. I already renamed my Flickr and Twitter accounts. Livejournal is coming later this month. "randyfmcdonald" is nice and memorable, don't you think?
