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Today at work someone asked me why I call Mark ‘Mapk’. After telling the story, it was suggested that I post it to my blog. So here we go:

I work with this guy named Mark. We are in software development. He wrote two applications that were very similar and went through the testing and deployment (what I work on) process at the same time. The apps were called ‘Daily AR Reconciliation’ and ‘Daily AP Reconciliation’. When it was time to deploy I created deployment documents for both of these apps. Since the information for their deployment was exactly the same except that one says ‘AR’ and the other ‘AP’ I merely copied the AR doc and did a global search and replace on the letters ‘ar’. This seemed like a good idea at the time. Of course I didn’t think about the fact that there are other words in the English language that have the combination of ‘ar’ together. For example: the word Mark. So it changed Mark’s name to Mapk. And there you have it. Mapk.

Out of all of the nicknames that I have ever come up with in my life, I think that this is my favorite.