Chris Brady just signed up for the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars annual meeting, which will be taking place on Friday, November 16, prior to the SBL meeting. Like Chris, I signed up for it using the AABS web site. But because I am the web master for that site, I was more interested in the technical details and making sure everything was functioning properly.
Chris, however, paid more attention to the receipt he received. According to him, the following statement was added by PayPal:
This Payment will appear on your credit card statement as “ANGLICANASS”
In a post on his blog, Targuman, Chris playfully chided me for chosing this abbreviation. For the record, I thought I would state that I didn’t get to choose the abbreviation. It was selected automatically by PayPal.
I always enjoying seeing how computers truncate text. When I was in the Near Eastern Studies Department at Johns Hopkins, the computer couldn’t fit the entire name of the department on envelopes. But it was quite a boost to the ego to get mail addressed to “Kevin Wilson, Near Eastern Stud.”
On October 26th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
You’ll always be a near eastern stud to me!