January 24, 2025: Who Uses A 835374663 Anymore?

As I was speaking with company cohort Irene Zielinski recently, she revealed that a number she uses was actually devised from a word that's meaningful to her, tapped out as digits on a telephone keypad.

It's a cool idea, but – as she explained it – I realized that it took a few moments to realize what she was talking about, because it'd been so long since I'd looked at a telephone keypad. Sure enough, they were still on my iPhone's telephone screen.

It's a cool "old-school" technique I want to use in my tabletop games. So, when the adventurers are sifting through an online forum looking for Dr. Chaos, maybe they should pay attention to username 24267 . . .

-- Steven Marsh