...so why "splateagle"?!?

(it's not that interesting but people ask a lot)

Back in school one of my friends compulsively gave people really odd nicknames, even to the point where he referred to his parents as "bead" and "pear" - my name (patrick) doesn't lend itself readily to any particularly unusual nicknames, but somehow this friend managed to distort patrick, to "splatrick" and thence "splat", which to my ear is always pronounced in a very particular and emphatic tone characteristic of this crazy old friend.

splat became splateagle on contact with the internet back in the mid 90s - opening my first personal email account I wanted something simple and distinctive, both patrick@ and splat@ were already taken and faced with a depressingly unoriginal sequence of numbers in my email address I was forced to be more inventive. The obvious choice was to add my surname, but my own being a cumbersome nuisance, I borrowed the surname eagle from my best friend, making "splateagle" which kinda stuck.

So now you know. Told you it wasn't that interesting.