About me (chri d. d.)

I'm chri; I sometimes post on forums and blogs, usually under the username chridd. I lurk more than I post, partly because I tend to be afraid of saying something wrong and accidentally breaking a rule or starting a flamewar or revealing something about myself that I shouldn't or looking bad.... Also I sometimes post stuff I make on my website.

I did not make the Index Diachronica, I only converted it to HTML and made a search tool.

Social media accounts

Currently:

• Tumblr: chrideedee
• Mastodon: @felidoptera@tech.lgbt
• Bluesky (formerly known as Twitter): @felidoptera.bsky.social

Formerly:

• Cohost: felidoptera (I miss you, Eggbug)
• My ex–social-media-site: @chrideedee (not active or checking anymore, but not deleting my account)

I'm not super active on any social media; I mostly use these to follow people and comment on/like stuff. I'm also chridd or chrideedee in a bunch of other places, but I think these are the only ones where following me might make some sense.

I also have a website, which you're currently viewing, and which has an Atom feed at https://chridd.nfshost.com/whats-new?as=atom&exp=31d&min=5

My username

chridd comes from my offline name. I've been using chri as my name since long before I used the internet regularly; the d's are initials (and no spaces makes it more usernamey). My username is all lowercase. I use this name on many forums and comment sections, but I'm apparently not the only person with my username, since searching for my username on Google gives plenty of results that have nothing to do with me. On the other hand, anyone (online or offline) with a name that's not chri possibly followed by one or two d's (or one or two things that start with d) almost certainly isn't me.

Pronunciation: /tʃɹɪ.di.di/ ; each letter or digraph in "chri" is pronounced as it's usually pronounced, disregarding any other spelling or phonotactics rules. chridd is pronounced like chickadee, with an extra r and the cka replaced by another dee; chri is pronounced like church rim, minus the chur and the m, or like rich, with the sounds rearranged. (Don't worry; you're not the only one who has trouble pronouncing it. I didn't know about phonotactics when I was younger, so I considered any combination of sounds pronounceable. ☺)

If chridd isn't available, I generally use the name chrideedee. Same pronunciation, but with the name of the letter d spelled out.

For reasons, I've been starting to try a new username, felidoptera, as of 2022. From felidae (cat) + lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), since I've been using an avatar that has a butterfly on it a lot.

My avatar

I like purples and pinks and cats. Updated from my original avatar. Facial features traced from an image on Wikipedia. Other avatars I've used and more info.

Why is the site all (red/blue/etc.)?

Because sometimes I like making color schemes, and so I made a bunch of different color schemes for the website, and I set different color schemes for different seasons and also for various holidays and other events. If you don't like it, there's an options page where you can choose a different color scheme or disable automatically changing for holidays.