"I think being a woman is like being Irish." — Iris Murdoch

I had just walked out of my office building and crossed the street, when I heard my cell phone ring.  Cursing, I pulled it from beneath my coat and answered.  It was IBM support.  They think there's something wrong with one of the computers at work.  I don't know whether there really is... they keep calling me on my cell when I'm almost out of range, and we've had a few garbled conversations and not very intelligible voicemail messages.  I DID SEND AN EMAIL, though.  Apparently it wasn't clear enough.

So this man asks me for my email address.  He wants to send me instructions so I can pull all sorts of logs and send them back to him.

That was more than an hour ago, but his email has yet to arrive.  I could tell as I was spelling my email address to him that he was getting it wrong.  Do you know what I mean?  I say S-I-N-C-L-A-I-R and I know he's writing "skinclear" or "st. clare" or "seen-here" some other crazy thing.  IBM uses the NATO phonetic alphabet (generally), and I'm thinking sam-india-what's the one for N? The hell with it.  I'll call them tomorrow.

OH!  I almost forgot!  The point was, as I explained to Nelson, is this:  what is needed nowadays is an easy way of exchanging email addresses.  So you could tell another person a unique word or key or something that they could use to get your full and correct email address... instead of having to spell out some long thing that you KNOW they'll get wrong.  Something to do for email addresses what tinyurl did for URLs.  Oh, well.