My new identity

[xela]

By the time you read this, I will have become LJ user "yakshaver". (For those who don't know the term, the jargon file definition is reasonable, though flavorless. The GSB announcement in which the term first escaped the AI lab provides much more flavor.[1 Why I chose this to be my new LJ username is left as an exercise for the reader.

I would like to assume that changing one's username on LJ is seamless and I won't fall off of anyone's friendlist, nor vice versa. But I've made my living from computers for over 18 years now: Murphy's law is my guide.

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1  GSB (Girl Scout Benefit) is, or at least used to be, a regular weekly gathering at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Some people claim that GSB really stands for "Grad Student Beer"; I have no idea how such scurrilous rumor could have gotten started.

Comments

[crs.livejournal.com]

seems to have worked well enough.

[kareila]

It's so seamless that typing <lj user=xel_> will evaluate to yakshaver, which can be disconcerting when reading older entries.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

Seems to work well enough. I see you know another Omri, BTW.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

>I see you know another Omri, BTW.

I do? Grovels through freincslist. Hmm. I can only assume I thought he was you when I friended him. Though at this point I have no idea ho the existence of the account came to my attention in the first place; maybe he friended me randomly and I assumed it was you. At any rate, he's made 3 entries, the most recent three years ago, and I'm his only "friend". Or rather was....

[gardenfey.livejournal.com]

So how did you complete this metamorphosis? Did you pay to have the journal name converted, and if so, how much is it?

[kareila]

He got a free rename token because his old username contained an underscore. (Long story.)

Any user can purchase a rename token for $15.

http://www.livejournal.com/rename/

[bryttan.livejournal.com]

GSB still happens every Friday night from ~5:30pm->when we get done; it's just in the Leaning Tower of Toon now.

There's even a reminder list that gets funny/appropriate/geeky weekly messages so that we can remember why we _have_ to drink ourselves insensible on Friday nights.

(OK, we're rarely insensible, but we also rarely make sense. :)