Why I chose Net Spinster

My cognomen of net spinster has several origins; the major one probably being a discussion on rec.arts.books that came to the conclusion, tongue in cheek, that only spinsters had enough time to read lots of books. At that point large numbers of people, married and unmarried, male and female, declared themselves spinsters. Another origin is that I'm webmaster (in charge of mechanics) of this site and the webs are spun.

The spider has always been associated with the online web hence the reason it appears on my home page.


emma@csli.stanford.edu
Last modified: Wed Mar 27 17:03:59 PST 1996