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Recently I had to do with quite a lagre number of e-mail addresses. My student’s e-mail addresses that is. Quite an impressive picture of people’s inventiveness. Then I went through my e-mail address book and found even more examples of inspiring ingeniousness (griefgiver, pan_balagan, lakebodomslayer, jetem_fajna to mention a few). And there are stories behind those addresses too. Then I thought about my e-mail address: michal_citko@xx.pl. ‘What a bore!’, I thought. What does my e-mail say about me?
Although the practical explanation for the choice of this address was that I thought I might get into professional situations via e-mail, so I though my name and surname would be most suitable for this purpose.
But now after a bit of consideration I realize I am a serious person in general, so probably I didn’t want any crazy inventions like nicknames or wordplays. Also, name and surname is a very common choice when it comes to creating your e-mail address, and sometimes I just like to be like majority, mingle with the crowd, be unoriginal.
Yes, to mingle and blend but sometimes only. Most people will do one thing or the other to stick out from the crowd.
Case 1:
Given 3 black T-shirts to choose from, would you rather go for:
a) one with the logo of of a popular consumer product?
b) one in plain black
c) one to be customized for free with whatever image you fancy
Case 2:
Everybody on this blog knows michał_t is the only one that doesn’t capitalize headings in his posts.
ad case 1: i’d probably go for the plain one :) unless I had a good idea about what to put on the shirt.
ad case 2: it is by no means a way to stick out. I’ve done it for a long time, and it’s purely aesthetic – it’s just look so much nicer.
It suprises me that you’ve noticed. Perhaps you agree?