There are aspects of me that don't exist. Granted, that's true of a lot of folks i know.
The world seems to want to know my email address. Considering that i get enough of that sort of thing as is, i generally tend not to provide one unless there's definitely something to benefit from it.
Take, fer-instance, the fact that EA is "giving away" copies of Rayman Raving Rabbids. i use those quotes because "giving away" means that i have to provide an email address to two sites and get to sit through in game ads. The email addresses exist purely for me to get… more ads. This isn't spam. Heck, it's not even bacn. This is getting a whole pig tossed at me.
Still, if they were giving away a fairly well rated and excessively silly game for "free", who am i to refuse?
This, of course, is where the disposable egos come into play. If i wanted to, i could use the Address Protector set of disposable that Yahoo! provides, but i prefer to reserve that for bacn. i could use my gmail account which is currently filling up with god knows what since i seldom check it. (One can only presume that G's having a heck of a time matching up ads for ads on that one, but i digress.) Or i could use one of my private domains that i use specifically for such matters.
Enter euben_hadd, with his appropriately less pleasant email address at abnormalgrowth69@gnomebondage.com. That address existed for the sum total of about 30 minutes (have fun with that spammers!). Basically long enough for me to get what i wanted, but not long enough for anyone else to do anything with it.
See, that's the hallmark of a true geek. Having a yahoo or gmail account? Pfft. Yeah, whatever. Have a personal domain? Ok, that's something. Having an oddly disturbing domain you use explicitly to oog your fellow planet dwellers? Now we're talking.
For me, it's gnomebondage.com. i also had iEatPuppies.com for a while but i let that one lapse because i couldn't figure out something interesting to do with it, and i already had my disturbing domain.
My personal favorite disturbing domain is owned by Derek, AmishMILFHunter.com, who got it because he couldn't believe nobody else had it. Personally, i'm amazed that nobody has KittensForDinner.com yet (which i both thought of after i had registered iEatPuppies and would be an awesome name for a band.) The really sad thing is that i could probably come up with at least a dozen more.
So, what's your disturbing domain?
It's insisting that i have to be a resident of the US to play.
Apparently, California doesn't count.
Yeah, sure glad i didn't use my real email for that one.
ooo. raving rabbids! you gotta play it on the wii, not the pc. you're missing out if you play only on the pc. of course, who can complain when it's free!
For a while I registered Dromiceiomim.us for Ryan (Canadians can't have .US addresses) but shockingly, nobody visited.
The EA irony is that the Raving Rabbids game is en elaborate variant of whack-a-mole… basically a metaphor for spamming anyway.
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wiigina.com & vibratormafia.de — beat that. Is that enough reason for you to never ask again? ;)
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