Why are you who you are?

Taken from Absent Elements:


Rules: Post the explanation of where your username came from. Then tag TEN users whose explanations you'd like to hear. If you are tagged post the explanation to your page.

I'll do both the title of this blog, and the alias I use on IM.

mad_philosopher: So, back in the day, my email address was thephilosopher@hotmail.com. I decided to switch to Yahoo! mail because several of my friends had been having trouble with hotmail. Now, I'd like to say that I changed from 'the philosopher' to 'mad philosopher' in a fit of humility, but the truth is, 'the philosopher' was already taken.

Under the Law: The original name of this blog was actually "Notes from Under the Law School," which was a reference to Dostoytevsky's Notes from Underground. I decided that the reference was a bit too strained, so I did a little research and discovered to my surprise that 'Under the Law' hadn't been taken yet.

So there you go.