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Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 00:27:50 -0700
From: Brian Raiter
To: Richard Stallman
Subject: Virtual Godfather
So I recently had a daughter, by the name of Alice Hardyman. Her
mother, Laura Hardyman, wanted to give her a middle name of Violet,
after one of the child's grandmothers. I told that, while I
appreciated the sentiment, I simply couldn't bring myself to agree to
giving her a middle name of Vi! Not, that is, unless she was given a
second middle name of Emacs for balance. To my astonishment, Laura
agreed to the compromise, with the proviso that my last name was added
as a third middle name.
Thus the child's legal name is Alice Violet Emacs Raiter Hardyman.
(This compromise was reached almost literally as we were filling out
the birth certificates. If I had had time to reflect on the matter, I
would have tried to get the name Edwynna thrown in there as
well. Oh well; Laura probably wouldn't have agreed to it anyway.)
Anyway, recently a friend suggested to me that I should ask you to be
the child's virtual godfather. Since none of us are religious, I'm not
sure what being a virtual godfather would mean. But in any case, I
figured you might enjoy hearing about it.
b
From: Richard Stallman
To: Brian Raiter
Subject: Re: Virtual Godfather
Reply-to: rms@gnu.org
The Church of Emacs does not have gods, so it would not make sense to
have godfathers. But I could be her editorfather .
I guess it would be good for me to meet her sometime.
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