Today’s Alter Ego comes from Andrew, or as he’s known at Starbucks, Santa.

Brian Williams—should I be worried? In an interview with the New York Times’ David Carr this morning, Williams says he would “happily go to work at NY1 if he got fired tomorrow.” A more in-depth reading put me at ease: his love of local news is more of a motivation than say, my comfortable anchor chair, but still.

Today’s Alter Ego comes from Gaddy, who says she would have accepted Gaddy, but she is definitely not a type of (misspelled) kitchen!

There’s a great video making its way around this morning. It was made by a guy named Jean Louis, who wanted to demonstrate how times have changed, so he gave his one-year-old daughter an iPad and a magazine to play with.

Today’s Alter Ego comes from Gretchen. She writes: “I’m used to people messing up my name. I get a lot of different things. For example, people often thing I said ‘Rachel’ instead of ‘Gretchen’ and sometimes I get ‘Bridget.’ I guess people hear what they want to hear…but this one I just don’t get.

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Pat’s Papers reader Kelly, though you wouldn’t know that by looking at the photo she submitted.

Today’s Alter Ego comes from Wendy. She writes: “When I heard the barista scream out the name ‘Wench’ I just knew she must be talking about me!”

Somewhere in the basement of my parents’ condo in Calgary is a box that says “Apple II+.”  And in the box there’s a floppy disk containing my best-ever computer programming achievement: a computerized version of “Wheel of Fortune.”

Foolishly, I visited the M&M store to buy M&Ms last night. I had a very specific M&M need: My daughter Lucy was doing a school project that required a large quantity of green candy. We’d been past the M&M store and knew it featured a section where you could create your own color mix. So I took one of the plastic bags they supply and filled it about half full.  Impressed with my blend of three colors of green M&Ms, I headed toward the cashier. She weighed the bag and said, calmly: “That’s 44.91. Cash or credit?”