€uroMeinke
08-09-2005, 07:44 PM
I met my virtual doppleganger today - he sent me an IM.
You see, long long ago, when installing some software we needed a "Company Name" as part of the activation/registration process. I was subscribing to Anarchy Magazine at the time, and Lisa was reading up on Zen - hence the name "Zenarchy" was born. It please both our Zen and Anarchist sensibilities, so it's sort of stuck and has manifested itself in several places, including the ur-version of these boards.
Strangely though, this made-up word had found some users in it's various spellings. To get an AIM ID I had to take Xenarchist, as Zenarchy and Xenarchy were already taken.
So I am at work, and a chat window opens from "Xenarchy" - WTF, I think? Did I just accidentally send myself an IM? How is this possible? Or did someone hijack my account? Neither was the cast it seems.
Earlier Fej/Ubergeek42 was trying to send me an IM, and ended up sending it to my Doppleganger instead, who of course checked out his namesake website and sent me a note as well. Strangely he was also at work and mentioned that he also goes by "Chris" - Indeed!
So we chatted briefly about the site, who we were and what it was about, and a dare say he might be checking in on us now - that is of course, if he is a he. I didn't bother to check gender - or location for that matter. Perhaps is best just knowing that he's out there, living a parallel life on the Internet.
You see, long long ago, when installing some software we needed a "Company Name" as part of the activation/registration process. I was subscribing to Anarchy Magazine at the time, and Lisa was reading up on Zen - hence the name "Zenarchy" was born. It please both our Zen and Anarchist sensibilities, so it's sort of stuck and has manifested itself in several places, including the ur-version of these boards.
Strangely though, this made-up word had found some users in it's various spellings. To get an AIM ID I had to take Xenarchist, as Zenarchy and Xenarchy were already taken.
So I am at work, and a chat window opens from "Xenarchy" - WTF, I think? Did I just accidentally send myself an IM? How is this possible? Or did someone hijack my account? Neither was the cast it seems.
Earlier Fej/Ubergeek42 was trying to send me an IM, and ended up sending it to my Doppleganger instead, who of course checked out his namesake website and sent me a note as well. Strangely he was also at work and mentioned that he also goes by "Chris" - Indeed!
So we chatted briefly about the site, who we were and what it was about, and a dare say he might be checking in on us now - that is of course, if he is a he. I didn't bother to check gender - or location for that matter. Perhaps is best just knowing that he's out there, living a parallel life on the Internet.