Cute meme

[liv]

Slightly mutated from sciolist:

1) Go to my User Info page.
2) Pick one person on my friends list you're curious about.
3) Comment with their username.
4) I will tell you something about them.
5) If you like propagating memes, post this in your journal, see who is curious about whom.

Let's see if I can play this without offending anyone...

Comments

[redbird]

I've been wondering about 791point43 ever since I first saw that username.

[liv]

791point43 is making a serious academic study of fanfic, which I find very cool! I am afraid I have to confess that I don't know the significance of her username.

791.43

[pne.livejournal.com]

My first guess was a Dewey Decimal System entry... looking it up, apparently 791.43 is for "Motion pictures", "MOVIES AND MOVIE STARS", "Film & Movies", or something like that.

[791-43.livejournal.com]

Yep. 791.43 is the Dewey classification for Film Studies, which is kind of my original field, plus I'm a library geek, plus I wanted a username which didn't have any immediate associations with my name, gender, nationality, or fandom, and which was significant to me, and which I wasn't going to "outgrow" very quickly.

Unfortunately it's usually the first name on many alphabetic lists of LJ friends or interests, so I'm still not quite as inconspicuous as I want. *g*

[redbird]

This all makes sense.

My username doesn't have immediate associations with my name, gender, or nationality (I don't have a specific fandom in the sense that I think you're using that term), but that's just luck, and it's probably much too late for me to obscure any of those things online.

Well, I suppose I could get a new email address and LJ account and not put my real name or face on either.