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There's an old joke about a girl named Megan E. Cummings, who successfully petitioned for a change to her university e-mail, which had been auto-generated accor

by JadeNB 10y ago

There's an old joke about a girl named Megan E. Cummings, who successfully petitioned for a change to her university e-mail, which had been auto-generated according to the scheme `substr($LASTNAME, 6).$FIRSTINIT.$MIDINIT`.

amyjess 10y ago
I once worked with a person named Alison Funkhouser. She was a college intern, and her university's username policy was: first_name[0] + last_name[:6] The resulting username was afunkho. (she was also really great to work with, and she knows her stuff when it comes to robotics... if anyone happens to run across her resume anywhere, hire her) There was also the athlete Kevin Youkilis, who happens to be Jewish. One website that lists pro athletes used this scheme to provide a unique URL for each athlete: last_name[:5] + first_name[:2] That's right, his identifier was youkike. When someone pointed this out to the website owner, he changed it... to youklKe. Which isn't much better. (I don't know Kevin Youkilis personally. I got this off TVTropes.)
gerdesj 10y ago
Nearly my first helpdesk call at a new job was for a Wayne Anker. Luckily we used family name + initial for ID and not the other way around. I had a particular friend in childhood. What on earth Mr and Mrs Head were thinking about when they named their son Richard is beyond me. They already had a daughter called Rachel so should have got the hang of the naming process the second time around.
- amyjess 10y ago
  > I had a particular friend in childhood. What on earth Mr and Mrs Head were thinking about when they named their son Richard is beyond me. I knew a Richard Bates in college (yes, the same guy from the Silk Road trial). He betrayed one of my best friends in a really deplorable way, so you can guess the nicknames we called him behind his back.
gadders 10y ago
I worked with a guy called Steve Rascine, and his login name was "RACIST".
- JadeNB 10y ago
  Then 'Racine', surely?
madcaptenor 10y ago
There's a sugar called "fucose", sometimes abbreviated to "fuc". The "kinase" type of enzymes, which transfer phosphate groups, are abbreviated to "K". You can figure out the rest. http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm

by JadeNB 10y ago

amyjess 10y ago

I once worked with a person named Alison Funkhouser. She was a college intern, and her university's username policy was: first_name[0] + last_name[:6] The resulting username was afunkho. (she was also really great to work with, and she knows her stuff when it comes to robotics... if anyone happens to run across her resume anywhere, hire her) There was also the athlete Kevin Youkilis, who happens to be Jewish. One website that lists pro athletes used this scheme to provide a unique URL for each athlete: last_name[:5] + first_name[:2] That's right, his identifier was youkike. When someone pointed this out to the website owner, he changed it... to youklKe. Which isn't much better. (I don't know Kevin Youkilis personally. I got this off TVTropes.)

gerdesj 10y ago

Nearly my first helpdesk call at a new job was for a Wayne Anker. Luckily we used family name + initial for ID and not the other way around. I had a particular friend in childhood. What on earth Mr and Mrs Head were thinking about when they named their son Richard is beyond me. They already had a daughter called Rachel so should have got the hang of the naming process the second time around.

amyjess 10y ago
> I had a particular friend in childhood. What on earth Mr and Mrs Head were thinking about when they named their son Richard is beyond me. I knew a Richard Bates in college (yes, the same guy from the Silk Road trial). He betrayed one of my best friends in a really deplorable way, so you can guess the nicknames we called him behind his back.

gadders 10y ago

I worked with a guy called Steve Rascine, and his login name was "RACIST".

JadeNB 10y ago
Then 'Racine', surely?

madcaptenor 10y ago

There's a sugar called "fucose", sometimes abbreviated to "fuc". The "kinase" type of enzymes, which transfer phosphate groups, are abbreviated to "K". You can figure out the rest. http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm