koinzidenz

Posted on June 13, 2008 by David

Full disclosure: I’ve probably set up 40 or 50 e-mails accounts in my lifetime, between various jobs, schools, and excite/gmail/myway accounts whose passwords I kept forgetting.

One that I set up for a yahoo! fantasy baseball league in my early twenties has stuck with me through all the years (not unlike the league itself), so much so that its user ID has even become my last.fm profile.

I’m not proud of the y and z twist, a choice driven by immediacy, flippancy, and ecstasy, but the overall concept was one that was big in my world view at the time — accident implied a normative otherness — and I appreciate the historic guidepost it provides for me to this day, not unlike a tattoo I suppose.

That, and yahoo! has been very good about minimizing spam.

So by a bit of happenstance (teehee) I lept from this friend’s enjoyable journey, to a link, to another that brought me to a kindred spirit: Koinzidenz. I’ll chalk it up to the wisdom of 51 years that gave him the konfidenz to leave out the Y.

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