I needed an email address, and while Askajunker was more a typo of last resort than apt pseudonym, turns out that some other sicko had already grabbed Askajunkie. After I thought more about it, I decided that at my age I'd be wiser to reveal ancestral membership in the Prussian nobility than to admit any sort of addiction. If I were ever to trade email addresses with a new friend, for instance, I figured it would be cooler to come from a family of German squires, than to admit they were a bevy of hippie pot heads. DDDefault would work just fine. Juliet's theory notwithstanding (act 2, scene 2), lot's is in a name apparently, and I bet all the fun monikers at free web based email sites are in use.
Once I accidentally impressed a few tech friends at with my hotmail id (ddefault@hotmail.com) that was made with just my name and no special characters (to distinguish me from all the other dee dee default's out there), instead of one like ddfault2003@hotmail.com that would reveal me uniquely, but as a DD come lately (or DD come 2003) to the internet. In one of my very few trendy moves, I apparently rode an early wave of web surfing in the nineties.
But damn, was I cool!
