New email address

[jay]

With the demise of Telocity in nine days, I've jumped ship and contracted for both a different broadband provider to home, and for a new domain. Please send non-work email to brian1789@lithic.net.

If you're bored, neo@lithic.net will also reach me.

And I had a low-key-but-fun Thai dinner tonight with geekchick and C...

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Demise of telocity? Aww, that's sad!

Hey, where does the "1789" come from, anyway?

-J

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Originally, I tacked on the year of the French Revolution (I figured I'd be stirring up things periodically in a couple of mailing lists or alt.poly) when I was on AOL. It was camouflage... by looking like any other random AOL-generated-userid hapless newbie, I could say provocative things and get flamed less than if other people had known I'd been on Usenet since 1981.

Now I keep it purely for symbolism, and out of convenience ("brian-with-numbers").

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

*lithic*? Wow, that rocks. :)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

yeah... I've had to really resist opting for mono@lithic.net : )

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

*thwap* :-D

[geekchick]

Hee! Of course my first reaction to seeing Brian's address was <Keanu>"Whoah."</Keanu> (Footnote for the pop-culture impaired *cough*Brian*cough*: it's a reference to "The Matrix", which you really ought to see. ;) )

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

What's Keanu?

"The Matrix"... wasn't that what they parodied in "Shrek" with those frozen-action scenes?

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

The question should be "Who's Keanu?" The answer is Keanu Reeves -- who was Bill (or was it Ted? the dark haired dopey one) in the Bill and Ted movies (which I know you've seen) as well as the villian in "Much Ado About Nothing" (which I also know that you've seen). He was the hero in both "Speed" and "The Matrix" which you may not have seen.

And, technically, the scene in "Shrek" was parodying "Charlie's Angels" (the Drew Barrymore/Cameron Diaz/Lucy Liu movie, not the old TV series), which in turn was parodying "The Matrix." Sort of parody once removed.

[ag-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I've had to really resist opting for mono@lithic.net : )

*snerk* But that just wouldn't fit, now, would it?

I suppose you could go for "paleo@lithic.net", but that's a really old one. ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(nods) petrifyingly good, even... and the break from Telocity will give us a clean slate, spam-wise.