Look - it's a website! Now I can let go of this nagging
grudge. You took
jed.com a mere month before I thought to register it, way back in 1997.
You did a good thing with it. I see that you've changed gears and
hosts,
and that the site gets more interesting as one browses through it.
Really very fine!
Here's my histoire du nom: named Jethro at birth
(after
Moses's
father-in-law, or more likely after a character, Jethro Somes, in one
of
my
father's writings - note the anagram on Moses). Dad usually
called me
Jethro; everyone else has called me Jed (except when particularly
angry)
since I can remember. My college film professor couldn't resist
"Jedediah." If you don't mind, let's not even mention the other
one.
A younger brother of a junior high school friend, way
back
in Washington,
DC, was also named Jed. I didn't hear of another - Jed the Fish -
until
moving to Los Angeles in 1978. Over the last 20 years, I have
heard
of one
or two other Jeds, met your web presence in my own search for jed.com,
and
virtually met Jed Ela (a very interesting Jed himself) during his
recent
search for jed.com.
Time to go for now - congratulations on getting your
website
up, and
particularly for the elegance of implementation and intent.
Regards,
Jed Pauker
