David Christopher Hill. Quite a mouthful, when you toss in the middle name.

"David" seems to have been very popular as a first name in my generation. At one point in college, in my hall segment (Harwood Court, Rm 102, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., "Go, Sagehens! Chirp!") there were five people, four of whom were named "Dave." We used to answer the phone, "Dave, Dave, Dave, Ron and Dave, Dave speaking." Dead silence. Then, "Uh, can I speak to, uh, Dave ...?" Usually we had to find out what classes the caller knew his/her "Dave" from.

"Christopher" was my patron saint. He became "obsolete" according to Rome a number of years before I stopped being concerned about it too much.

"Hill" comes from my dad's side of the family, the English part. My mom's side is all Italian (from the Venice area, as far as I can know). My dad's side is, as I said, English and Spanish (no, really) on his dad's side, and Irish on his mom's (Reilly). I've recently started getting into the genealogy thang, and it's a lot of fun. One of these days (yeah, right) I'll get some of that stuff on-line.

So there's the name. Though I formally sign as "David C. Hill," most folks know me as "Dave." I answer to either, not to mention "Hey, you," "My computer is broken," and any number of RPG character names as well.

People often comment about how I sign things online as "***Dave." To learn more, you have to read The Saga of Three-Star Dave.

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