So, I was getting my news online when I encountered this passage lifted form an article about how airlines wont let you fly internationally if your boarding pass doesn't match your Passport Letter-for-letter

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Larry, whose proper name is L. Lawrence, has another concern. “The first ‘L’ does not stand for any name,” he said. Some computers call him “LLawrence,” and some call him plain old “L.” Until the data entry bugs get worked out, he wrote, “I may need to carry both my passport and driver’s license to try to minimize problems.”
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Determining the minimal value of a function, efficiently traveling sans-borders, Casually stating that computers refer to him by his first name. This sounds much the L we know.

Original Article (until he gets it pulled down): [link]artner=rss&emc=rss