In an effort to help anyone whom may be interested in getting to know me I’ve decided to make a post to introduce myself. So, here goes:

Hello. My name is Rick… Well, it’s actually Richard. But please, call me Rick. Only my mother and police officers call me by Richard, and they only do that when I’m in trouble. My middle name is Talón, and I didn’t know it until I was 23.

Ya see, my mother had always told me my middle name was Talón, but that it was spelled like the word Talon… as in an Eagles claw. Cool right? Damn straight! But alas, my middle name is actually pronounced Ta-lon. If you say ta, and then lon, you’ve got it right. However, come my 23rd birthday I needed to get my birth certificate in order to obtain my passposrt (which I still do not have). My mother found it and that’s when I realized I was looking at it for the first time. My mom disagreed and was certain I had seen it before. I told her simply, “If I had seen this before, then I would know the proper way to spell my middle name.” Ok, so that last part was for effect, and didn’t really go down that way. But rest assured, I complained. If you happen to know me in real life and are reading this, then you know what I mean when I say the words, “I complained”, and we’ll leave it at that. By no means do I dislike my middle name, it was my great, great grandmothers maiden name. Pretty cool actually.

My last name is D’Haene. I know, another weird one, right? And it’s not pronounced anything like it looks either. It’s pronounced dane. As in great dane. Lucky me. Usually I get what you were problably thinking it was, something like duh-hane, right? WRONG! Bad, bad, guest reader. It’s pronounced dane, learn-it, live-it, love-it.

So, putting it all together we have Richard (Rick) Talón (ta-lon) D’Haene (dane). If you’re a friend, call me Rick. If you’re my mother or a police officer and you’re angry, call me Richard. Nice to meet you.

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That was fun. I’ve typed around 400 words of my introduction and all my readers know is that my names are spelled differently then they sound, and that I’m over 23. However, you have probably learned more about the real me from reading the text above, than from some boring text dispensing useless facts and information.

DISPENSE USELESS FACTS AND INFORMATION:

Name: Richard Talón D’Haene

Age: 25

Sex: yes please.. Male

Profession: Web / Graphics Designer

Interests: My wife (she was #3 on this list, but figured I would get in trouble), Sports (football primarily), computer and console games, web / graphics design, keeping my many websites updated.

That’s enough information,

TTFN

That’s right, I’m the male half of themodernhippy.com. My wife runs her blog off of the main domain, while I, the lowly husband, keep myself entertained over here on the sub domain male.themodernhippy.com. As a man greater than myself once said, “If you have to live in someone’s shadow, make sure that person is great, and noble.” Yes, I just made that up, making me ‘greater than myself’ and identifying that my wife is a ‘great and noble person.’ And subsequently scoring me mad points when she reads this later no doubt.

This site and all of its contents are dedicated to her. She is my inspiration and reason for being. A true modern hippy. After watching her type away day-after-day, I realized it must be a great outlet for her.

Hence the reason you are here reading this. I decided to start up my own site and follow in her footsteps. Using a sub domain of her domain, themodernhippy.com seemed appropriate. So take a look around and enjoy my rantings and ravings. You shan’t be disappointed.