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by dang 2261 days ago
I picked it because (1) it's my first name plus surname initial; (2) it was my email address at my first job; and (3) it's what you say when you make a mistake—so yup, you guessed it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513120

2 comments

I always imagined you looked like the weirdo in the window seat with different sized eyeballs, who he was addressing as "Dang".

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f8/74/40/f8744035e15d69eb8fd4c70de...

Whoa! I love the second link! Is there an orchestrated horizontally-scaled secure decentralized web service I could use to bookmark all the dang cartoons?!
The best one I remembered from being taped to my mom's fridge, but I just couldn't dig up, was of a big dejected bird standing in front of the open refrigerator, saying:

"Dang! Somebody ate the middle out of the daddy longlegs."