Honestly, it's convenience that made me pick up another nickname. But then it just reminds me of my dad and his billion remote controls. Each one is supposed to make our lives easier and operate another awesome machine, but at the end you just have a lot of remote controls. It's a new kind of hassle. Friends from high school still tend to introduce me using my old name, and when friends from then and friends from now meet, there's occasionally confusion since they know me by different names.

I'm gonna give my kid names that don't need to be shortened to anything.