Le Makice
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Do you read French? Care to help me with a translation problem? Google sure didn’t, although the results are somewhat funny. Makice is a made up name. Amy and I scrambled our initials — A E C K M I — and picked the one that made the most sense to us. When egosurfing, it [...]
by Kevin Makice
A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.
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Do you read French? Care to help me with a translation problem? Google sure didn’t, although the results are somewhat funny.
Makice is a made up name. Amy and I scrambled our initials — A E C K M I — and picked the one that made the most sense to us. When egosurfing, it is sort of nice to know that whatever you find is going to be relevant, like a personal corner of the Internet.
Or at least, it used to be that way. Turns out, makice is Serbian for “little.” Ironic (see "No reason to live"). So now there are several forums, like the Serbian Cafe, cutting into our territory. Add to that the heavy metal and gaming forums where my name is a common misspelling of “malice.” And, there are some people using our very unique last name as a user handle, such as this person and this person. The latter one may be the same French cook/mother responsible for this blog.
I’d like to contact the username squatters to ask why they chose it. Maybe makice has other meanings.
So, … Vous parlez français?
2 Comments
Makice has been my nickname on the internet for ages now (over 7 years I guess).
It is a phonetic contraction of : ‘Mais, qui c’est’ (but who is this ?).
Funny to see you came up to the same name by scrambling your initials.
Excellent. Interesting. Thanks for the explanation.
Strange, too, that the timing matches so well. We “officially” changed our name in December 1999, but the name was selected in 1998 (it took a while to get used to). Perhaps it was karma telling us to try one of your recipes.