When I was a senior in high school, I had an English teacher with a penchant for spelling words backwards. I'm not talking about palindromes here, just normal names, words and phrases. It didn't stop at spelling backwards; he also liked to pronounce these "new" words. At any rate, I picked up this habit and have used it from time to time. In case you're wondering where I'm going with this, ignore the dot and try spelling the domain name "sinepaw.org" backwards (or look at this page in a mirror). As to why I would choose a domain name based on such a potentially vulgar phrase, it's time for the second story.

    Growing up in Buffalo, I made it a point to set aside some time to read our local paper daily. I especially liked the Sunday edition because it contained pages of color comics and a syndicated copy of humorist Dave Barry's column from the Miami Herald. I haven't paid much attention to the local papers since then (perhaps the Internet is partly to blame), but the point of all this is that I became a fan of Dave Barry's humor. In one of his books, "Dave Barry Slept Here", he credited Dick Cavett with discovering the fact that you could re-arrange the letters in Spiro Agnew's name to spell out that particular vulgar phrase I referenced above. Why this trivial nugget of information about Richard Nixon's vice president has remained with me all these years, I cannot explain. It should be noted that there are many other fun anagrams you can make with those same letters, some of which have been included as random titles on our main page.