l8 @ 9

05Oct07

The story of ‘late at nine’:

When I was a wee lad, my father set up our family’s AOL accounts with names that were very similar to the ones we actually had. When I expressed some interest in using some of the chat rooms present in the AOL client (before I even knew about the www.com internet), my parents were concerned that my screen name provided to much information for pedophiles. So, based on my current but passing interest at the time, I had my dad change my screen name to JudgeD5667, after the comic book hero Judge Dredd. It was at about this time that a pretty mediocre Judge Dredd movie starring Sylvester Stallone was released. As a child I thought it was very cool.

I stuck with that name for many years, but when we finally got a cable modem, and AOL was no longer a necessary gateway to the internet, the AOL IM client seemed less than useful. SO I had to come up with a screen name for AIM. Not wanting to evoke the law any more, I was reminded of what a presume to be a band name a friend of mine had once mentioned. While I’m not sure if there ever was a band called Late At Nine, for some reason it always seemed like a pretty great name to me. No, there isn’t any deep meaning behind the phrase late at nine. In fact, I’ve yet to actually be late at 9:00, but maybe I just haven’t been paying attention.

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