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Where Does
the Name "sLhAcKeR" Come From?
Back in ’99 my former officemate used to rant about
how she couldn’t STAND slackers and how she used to work with a bunch of
slackers.
When I’d sit with my feet up on my desk, she said that I “looked like a slacker and a hacker”. I
soon came up with the name “sLhAcKeR” and decided to register the domain
www.sLhAcKeR.com
.
One day she was ranting again about slackers and I
couldn’t get the word “slacker” out of my head. I
went to www.excite.com
and searched for “slacker”. One of
the sites I found was IShouldBeWorking.com
;). I soon found the
message board and became quite active in it.
I became friends with “Michelle” from the message board and
eventually we started sending email back and forth to each other almost every
day.
One day, Michelle’s former employer had gotten
behind on paying their ISP (Internet Service Provider for all you non-techies
reading this) bill and she could no longer email me at work.
She didn’t have a computer at home, so she was S.O.L. at the moment.
Fortunately, her good friend Angie came to the
rescue and was able to allow me and Michelle to communicate once again.
Angie had Internet access and a fax machine at her disposal at her work. She offered to
receive my email to Michelle, print it, and then fax it to her. Michelle
would type up a reply, fax it to Angie, and then Angie would email it to me.
Only a few days went by and I and Angie decided to
take things further.
Angie was much more than just a messenger for me and Michelle. We started sending each
other numerous emails nearly every day.
We knew we loved each other, but we lived 2000 miles apart. I lived in
San
Diego, CA
and she lived in
Rockford, IL.
How could this relationship progress further?
Well, in June of 2002 I decided to fly out to meet
Angie in person. :)
I stayed with her for about a week and fell in love. Shortly after I flew back home, Angie
decided that she was going to pack up and move out to
San
Diego
to live with me.
A couple of months after she moved in with me, we
got engaged and planned a wedding for September 6 of 2003. As
of that date, we are happily married. :)
Special thanks to Michelle and the
IShouldBeWorking.com message board.
As for the message board, I've helped MK, the webmaster of
IShouldBeWorking.com with technical issues in the past. He had trouble
keeping the script for the message board running on his own server , so one day
he asked if I could host the message board on mine. Naturally, I was happy to
oblige. After all, if it hadn't been for this message board, I wouldn't have
met my wife.
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