Why “Clarence” ?

A long time ago when I was testing a competing retailer's digital photo developing program, I invented a fake name and disposable email to avoid anyone connecting me with my company. I don’t know how it came to me, it may have been the season, but I chose Clarence Oddbody.

This was in the early days of ecommerce and I used that name and disposable email a lot. I got so accustomed to thinking of myself as Clarence, when I later wanted a social nom de plume, it was the first thing that came to mind.

And I thought, Why not?

Clarence is simple, gentle, likable, unflagging, unflappable and utterly ordinary.

All things (among others) I aspire to be.

[2014-01-09]

(Via Linux and Blogger's native editor; wow, what a mess. Free is hard work.)

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