Okay, now this is so typical…

This was a tweet, but I didn’t just retweet it because it called for some comment. First, take a look at this amusing little webcomic, “The Oatmeal.”

What your email address says about your computer skills

Cute, yes?

I have every single one of those emails. My own domain–well, THREE domains, each of them with multiple email accounts, all of which I use–gmail, (plus my readercon email which is a gmail subset), hotmail**, yahoo** (two of them!), and yes, even aol, or technically now, aim, a really old account from back in the 90s that I abandoned for about eight years and then discovered had never died…so occasionally I use it for something*.

And I have more besides those (like my verizon.net email). And I use them all.

What does that say about me??

a) I’m a hopeless geek
b) my eyes glaze over and I turn into a mindless zombie at the sight of a registration page
c) I’m plotting world domination with all my secret identities (all those people you think are in Congress? They’re all really ME!!! BWA-hahahahahahahaha!!!!)
d) I’m really typing this from a third-floor cold-water walk-up in Russia whence I create spyware and trojans for a shadowy organized crime syndicate
e) I’ve just been on the ‘Net wayyyyyyy too long

*That one actually belongs to one of my fictional characters, the one that got so cocky and wouldn’t let me kill him. Don’t give your characters their own email. It’s scary. He’s immortal–not a vamp, just immortal–and so is his email account! 8-(

**Let me add that I never owned a Compaq, although I’ve used them, and the last time I typed in all caps, it was so long ago, computers didn’t have lower case. No, srsly. *wry smile*