People and userpics

Some users I see commenting often in communities I read I associate fairly closely with their userpics.

When they change their username, I'll think of the old one whenever I see their icon (e.g. madcaptenor will probably always be "izzycat" to me, at least as long as the default userpic stays the same), and if they change their default userpic, I'll be a tad sad whenever I see them post but not with "their" pic.

...which makes me wonder whether people are like that with me, too. I can certainly imagine that there are people who associate "pne" with my Martin userpic, since that was the first userpic I ever uploaded, it's been my default nearly all the time, and I post (at least comments) with other userpics comparatively rarely.

Oh Flip

You know they say little children pay more attention than you think, but this morning I was reminded of it again.

I was on my computer and running rather late when I suddenly realised we had a meeting at work and I couldn't come arbitrarily late—and that even if I left immediately, I would be about ten minutes late! At that realisation, I swore, "Oh flip!"

Amy, who was standing in the same room at the time, picked that up and said, "Oh flip! Oh flip!" a couple of times, apparently finding the word interesting. I'm glad I didn't say anything stronger.

(I'm not sure where I picked up this particular euphemism, but possibly from Elder Rogers, a missionary from Australia, with whom I shared a flat in Cyprus for a while. I think it's not one of the typically Utahn euphemisms.)