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Why the "x" in "davidxkoenig.com?"

 

People always ask me why the site is called "davidxkoenig.com" instead of simply "davidkoenig.com."

Okay, look... I know your first thought after reading that last sentence wasn't, "y'know, I've been wondering that myself lately." No, it was probably something more along the lines of, "Really, people are always asking you that? How many people? One? Two?"

After smirking to yourself and, perhaps, scratching one of your temples with your pointer finger, I bet your next thought was, "Wait... also, this article has been on the site since the day of the site's inception, so how can he even expect me to even start to believe that he's been asked about it a lot? Did people ask him before the site was launched? Possibly, if he told those people of plans to launch davidxkoenig.com. But the grammar and wording of this article's first sentence seem to imply such activity took place after the site was online."

Okay, to be fair, you probably aren't even thinking that either, now. No, you're probably thinking about the movie Inception, on account of my using the word "inception" earlier. Perhaps you're thinking, "has that word been ruined forever, tainted by the film's popularity? Can no-one use it any more in polite conversation without listeners instinctively wracking their brains trying to come up with a snappy dream infiltration joke? Due to its rarity as a word before the movie, are people going to have to avoid saying it now, lest they appear 'commercial' now that it has become, as a word, part of popular culture?" Maybe that's what you're thinking – that the film Inception has done to the word "inception" what the film Sideways did to Château Cheval Blanc: made it super commercial.

Or maybe you aren't thinking any of that. Maybe you're just tired of reading this weird tangent-within-a-tangent-within-a-tangent.

 

...Please don't compare that to Inception.

 

 

David Koenig purchased the domain davidxkoenig.com as part of the Red Cross's "XXX Action" Campaign, in which case, every time an "x" is used in a web address, the Red Cross donates $20 to charity. I do not know which charity it is, but I think it can safely be assumed that the charity is the Red Cross.
   

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