NAME, ID, and CLASS in Dynamic HTML and JavaScript Image Arrays
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More Shvatzes
Remarkably, more than one guy was named Shvatz at school. This other Shvatz wasn't our Shvatz. His student ID did not say "Craig Adam Schwartz," but "Milford Dinglehopper." He took completely different classes, but it was still confusing. Whenever a Shvatz came up in conversation, you'd have to keep track of which Shvatz people were talking about.
Someone'd say, "We were sitting on the Pez watching Kembrew marry people to bananas, when I saw Shvatz - you know that guy in my virtual reality class. So I called out to him to come watch the banana nuptials, but the Shvatz
from my snowboarding
class was there and he answered instead.
Apparently Shvatz thought Kembrew's stunt was stupid." Now I know that the countercultural media CLASS Shvatz thought marrying a banana was great, so they must have been referring to the snowboarding CLASS Shvatz. Of course it was a pain in the ass to identify the Shavtzes by CLASS first and Shvatz later. So we decided to make a collection of Shvatzes. Then we could refer to Shvatz 0 (we were getting into computer languages back then, so we started counting at 0) and Shvatz 1. This made it much easier to distinguish between the Shvatzi.
It seemed strange at first, but gradually it began to make sense. Not just for the Shvatzes but for all the people we knew. Everyone had the NAME their friends called them and the official ID that the police used to release their descriptions when they would streak the quad. The people who didn't know their NAME or ID would refer to them by a CLASS they were in.
