RIP, ><((((>
It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
- Batman
Nevertheless, I believe something that has been representing me for so many years deserves at least a blog post for its retirement.
2003 – 2010 (aged 7)
My registered trademark, the “><((((->” MSN display name, will be no more. So long, and thanks for all of the one fish.
It’s about time to move on.
It has been faithfully representing me on MSN ever since grade 7. Only the number of fins have ever changed, and that was accidental. I’ve also changed its swimming direction once, and exactly 1 person noticed =P (or at least told me they did).
I believe it was a modified version of some random ASCII art I found on the internet to match my online pseudonym (cyberfish), which has served me just as long.
I will probably change it in the next few days (I sign in from 4-5 places… so it takes a while to change them all). So take a picture with it, give it a hug, or even just a stare, while you still can 
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The pseudonym, though, is here to stay, fortunately (for me) unfortunately (for it). Probably for life.
I’m not sure where the “cyberfish” came from. I think I just grabbed 2 random words from a dictionary, and stuck them together, hoping it will give me a unique identifier, and after 50 years, I’ll be able to google it and see nothing but my own stuff. Nope, lots of people are using it too.
People have said it’s girly. And I agree.
Girls are cool. I like girls. They are pretty (the pretty ones are).
Blog quality is reaching a new all-time low.
Oh no, it’s just an exceptionally successful attempt at modernism
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The goal is to induce the reaction “wait. I just wasted 1.5 seconds reading this sentence?!”, then realize you’ve just spent another 1 second thinking that.
…then realized you spent 1 additional second READING a comment about that
Very strange stranger indeed!
I think if you google your fish instead of ‘cyberfish’ it would stay unique.
Anyways these things don’t just disappear overnight, they change gradually. I find it unusual to change things like this suddenly.
and it still looks like a fish skeleton (i can’t visualize the flesh on it)
God couldn’t make wheels out of flesh (that’s why we got legs instead, which are vastly inferior).
I couldn’t make flesh out of ASCII art =P.
oh wait, was i the one who noticed the change in direction? i don’t remember >< though I think i recall a conversation like that. Although, I've been hallucinating a lot recently o.O….
dude why are u ditching a fishbone diagram.