more of me
Dec. 12th, 2009 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacOne or two of you might care to know that I've been dropping a few comments lately into the San Francisco Chronicle web site, which are conveniently amalgamated here. Sometimes I make punchier comments there than I do here. Most should be self-explanatory in the context of the article headline printed above.
My username there is "braldagamba" because all the variants on "calimac" or "kalimac" were taken. "Kalimac" is buried in Appendix F of The Lord of the Rings as the "true Hobbitish" first name of Merry Brandybuck. "Braldagamba" is buried even deeper in Appendix F as the "true Hobbitish" for "Brandybuck". Be thankful I didn't take that for my LJ handle, though I thought of it. In all such cases, I'm looking for something appropriately Tolkienesque that's obscure enough to evade all the punters who'd otherwise want to reply, repeatedly, that they know where it comes from, which is what happens if you use "Meriadoc" (which is a real medieval Celtic name and need not come from Tolkien at all).
The userpic identified with it is a photograph of the first word I ever read: a stop sign around the corner from our one-time apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. I took the photo on a nostalgia trip to Cleveland several years ago.
My username there is "braldagamba" because all the variants on "calimac" or "kalimac" were taken. "Kalimac" is buried in Appendix F of The Lord of the Rings as the "true Hobbitish" first name of Merry Brandybuck. "Braldagamba" is buried even deeper in Appendix F as the "true Hobbitish" for "Brandybuck". Be thankful I didn't take that for my LJ handle, though I thought of it. In all such cases, I'm looking for something appropriately Tolkienesque that's obscure enough to evade all the punters who'd otherwise want to reply, repeatedly, that they know where it comes from, which is what happens if you use "Meriadoc" (which is a real medieval Celtic name and need not come from Tolkien at all).
The userpic identified with it is a photograph of the first word I ever read: a stop sign around the corner from our one-time apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. I took the photo on a nostalgia trip to Cleveland several years ago.
