{"id":2262,"date":"2007-07-28T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2007-07-28T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T05:02:00","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Had this one in the text editor.. almost forgot to hit send)<\/p>\n<p>To keep the bloggers involved (read: awake) the blogathon site has a few games going. Questions to answer.<\/p>\n<p>This half hour:<br \/>\nSo many of us give our blogs funky names. Why did you choose yours.<\/p>\n<p>The easy part is Lord Andrei&#8230; Despite sounding all BDSM like&#8230; it&#8217;s really because I spent 15 years in the SCA and was given the title Lord. Interestingly, I&#8217;ve been on the net long enough that adding Lord to the less than common Russian spelling &#8216;Andrei&#8217; made a handle that is to this day almost always available.<\/p>\n<p>Sure it carries a bit of ostentatiousness and maybe a bit of superiority&#8230; but hey.. My journal.. My words.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting this is that Andrei isn&#8217;t my\u00a0birth-name.\u00a0It&#8217;s the name I chose in the SCA that eventually grew to become my legal first name. And that.. is a story in the archives of my Journal.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">You can still sponsor me throughout the blogathon at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/pledge.php?blogid=614\">http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/pledge.php?blogid=614<\/a><br \/>\n<i>Registration required<\/i><br \/>\nYou can sponsor by the hour or a simple monetary donation.<br \/>\nThanks to my sponsors so far. We&#8217;ve raised $376.77 for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/\">Planned Parenthood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also recommend he following blogathon bloggers:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/shadesong.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">shadesong<\/a>* is raising money for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barcc.org\/\">Boston Area Rape Crisis Center<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rhiannonstone.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">rhiannonstone<\/a>* is raising money for  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsi.org\/\">San Francisco Sex Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*I am a sponsor of this Blog for Blogathon<\/font><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2262\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/whats-in-a-name\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2262\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/whats-in-a-name\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2262\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/whats-in-a-name\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/whats-in-a-name\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Had this one in the text editor.. almost forgot to hit send) To keep the bloggers involved (read: awake) the blogathon site has a few games going. 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