Fatal Ice
Posted on January 14, 2004 @ 6:15 pm
When I walked into the graduate lounge today, I noticed that someone had written a note on the chalkboard selling textbooks from some public policy course or another. While that’s a fairly standard practice in our department, what really caught my eye was the email address written below the note: fatalice1@somewhere.com (well, not somewhere.com, but you get the idea).
How awesome of a username is Fatal Ice? When I saw it, images of a shadowy hacker hanging out with people using nicks like Zero Cool or AcidBurn and looking for “backdoors” into “mainframes” immediately sprang to mind. How could I have spent nearly three years in a department alongside someone with a ‘Net handle like Fatal Ice and never actually gotten to know him or her?
It was at this point that one of my friends walked into the lounge. Naturally, I pointed out the email address on the board and asked him if it wasn’t the coolest Internet nick he’d ever seen in his life.
“I guess so,” he replied. “But who’s Fat Alice?”
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If I am not mistaken, you (and Seth) have had a history of seeing online names, or names online, and having mad fantasies about who they may be, only to be sorely disappointed ;).
A/S/L????
1. Hackers = strangely good movie. Rented it when I was 10 and watched it a dozen times in quick succession. Crazy? I think not.
2. Fat Alice… Alice = library computer system at school. She is fat. Maybe it’s her?
3. Nothing. I just thought 3 was better.
Hackers is strangely good, isn’t it? I’m still not sure why it’s such a guilty pleasure, but I admit that I can’t resist watching it when I flip through the channels and notice that it’s on.
Actually, it is a reference to the vermin inhabiting the beards of terrorists - Fata Lice.