ragbag mailbag

last week, i received a non-hate letter that went something like this:

Dear Raynor,

You are the best thing that happened to the information super highway since AOL provided access to the open internet last year [a paraphrase].

I was looking up the name of a virus for work-related stuff on urbandictionary.com (gana-herpa-syphilitis-human papilloma virus) and came across this. Just a kind of creepy FYI from the internet.

—A Pseudonym [name changed to protect the identity of someone who looks up viruses for work-related stuff on, of all places, urbandictionary.com]

as it turns out, with the addition of a few cosmetic diacritics, my surname (to wit: gañán) becomes a spanish derogatory term meaning jackass. happy cinco de mayo everyone!

what does your last name mean°?