Why the Shinytoaster?
May. 5th, 2009 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shinytoasterWhy indeed? Good question. Buggered if I know.
I have not been entirely honest in my disclosures up to this point. I have been seeing another; and it's Blogger.
Blogger is fine for what it is. It synchs nicely with my Google ID and so on and so forth, and it's also linked to my Twitter feed, which I use on a professional basis. My blog is The Blether Forecast and like LJ, it has not been used for a very long time. My Twitter is Bletherer and it follows and is tracked by a fair number of you, but also a fair number of people from work.
When I was setting up Dreamwidth this morning I sat in my living room for about an hour trying to decide on a decent username.
I toyed with maintaining the Bletherer theme, but decided I would like to try and keep the two identities separate as much as possible, for now at least. I then thought of going down a similar route, with something like Great Wittering - well I am great and I don't half witter on sometimes. It also sounds like it might be a village in Dorset or somewhere. This was off-putting so I discarded that.
I thought about the sort of identity I wanted to project but I couldn't think of one that I might not want to break with at some point. I am many things; English, middle class, gay, disabled. But I don't always want to abide by those definitions, so Poncycrippledfag was never going to work.
So then I started thinking why not make a bit of a break and go with something that wasn't necessarily surreal, but had a certain nonsensical absurdity to it. I thought shiny new things are good, and toast is also a cornerstone of western liberal democracy, a thing I am in favour of. Shinytoaster seemed a good match.
It also has the added benefit of not saying much about me, so I can do what I like with it. It's open to interpretation in whatever way you want.
Everyone likes toast. Would you like a piece of toast?
I have not been entirely honest in my disclosures up to this point. I have been seeing another; and it's Blogger.
Blogger is fine for what it is. It synchs nicely with my Google ID and so on and so forth, and it's also linked to my Twitter feed, which I use on a professional basis. My blog is The Blether Forecast and like LJ, it has not been used for a very long time. My Twitter is Bletherer and it follows and is tracked by a fair number of you, but also a fair number of people from work.
When I was setting up Dreamwidth this morning I sat in my living room for about an hour trying to decide on a decent username.
I toyed with maintaining the Bletherer theme, but decided I would like to try and keep the two identities separate as much as possible, for now at least. I then thought of going down a similar route, with something like Great Wittering - well I am great and I don't half witter on sometimes. It also sounds like it might be a village in Dorset or somewhere. This was off-putting so I discarded that.
I thought about the sort of identity I wanted to project but I couldn't think of one that I might not want to break with at some point. I am many things; English, middle class, gay, disabled. But I don't always want to abide by those definitions, so Poncycrippledfag was never going to work.
So then I started thinking why not make a bit of a break and go with something that wasn't necessarily surreal, but had a certain nonsensical absurdity to it. I thought shiny new things are good, and toast is also a cornerstone of western liberal democracy, a thing I am in favour of. Shinytoaster seemed a good match.
It also has the added benefit of not saying much about me, so I can do what I like with it. It's open to interpretation in whatever way you want.
Everyone likes toast. Would you like a piece of toast?
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Date: 2009-05-05 11:33 am (UTC)I'd love a piece of toast, thanks.
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Date: 2009-05-05 11:52 am (UTC)But oh, is it good to have you and your wit back in the land of the shiny. *grins*
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Date: 2009-05-05 04:53 pm (UTC)