I was always TypoDaemon for a long, long time, because I felt that the idea of a process whose mission was to create errors to be amusing. That got shortened to Typo, mostly because it's shorter and the alternate shortening of Daemon is overused. However, Typo was taken here, so I became TypographicalError.
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...is what's left from my university time.
- e - Electrical engineering
- 8 - I started in 1998
- johan - my first namn
Sadly, Johan is a common name in Sweden in my age group, so there was e8johanj, e8johanr, e8johanp, etc. This meant that I got quite alot of mail intended for other people...
The reason to why I did not have to add an additional character was that my 'phadders' (older students who introduce Chalmers to the freshmen) where the IT group, i.e. my group was the first to get logins.
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(which means about 13 years ago) on a chairlift at Stoneham with a friend and his two brothers, and for some reason we decided to invent each other new names. one of my friend's brothers suggested "manure pan" or something of the sort for me, and his other brother suggested "Derf" which was my name's first four letters backwards (well duh).
I thought Derf was marginally better.
The Q was added a few years later when I discovered the joy of nick collisions on the early EFNet.
(I recall I found a nickname for mr. imagintion who'd suggested the manure thing, which was totally meaningless but seemed to properly insult him for years afterwards, so it was an appropriately good one.)
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SpankO was my first real nick. Long long ago I was trying to think of a nym for the local BBS, I had narrowed it down to either Bobo (as in Bobo the Clown) or Spanky. Well Bobo was already taken and I didnt really like Spanky all that much so SpankO it was! A few years later in high school I learned that one of my new friends was the Bobo that I had met on the BBSs, odd eh?
As for Lin Dze I stole it from Bruce Sterling. I was reading Schismatrix and enjoyed a quick dialogue between the protaganist, Lindsay, and a side character through an intercom. The side character misinterprets the name and comments "Lin Dze? Thats odd, you dont look asian." I felt this was a decent name as its plausably real, interesting, and rather unique. Ive never had a name conflict until a few years ago when Lindze.com showed up.
-Lin Dze
"Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley
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My name is Petrus but everyone calls me Peppe. That is, except for some finns who can't pronounce it and say Peeppe. So that was my nick for a while back in the late 80's to early 90's or so, in the days of BBS's. Later on, I dropped the trailing -pe in favor of the shorter Peep (as in the sound).
I was Peep for a few years until the Internet started getting popular and I started having nick collisions with people. Especially on IRC, it became pretty impossible. One night, I just added Mac in front of it and it stuck. The idea came from how McDonalds names products.. McChicken, McFish.. McPeep, except I used Mac instead of Mc.
These days, it's just all-lowercase "macpeep". Incidently, that's "peepcam" spelled backwards, which is just a coincidence, but adds to the mystery of the nick. ;)
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The words "monkey mind" come from a Buddhist description of the mind of a person who is not in the present moment. The mind of such a person is said to be likened to a monkey that goes from tree to tree tasting a piece of fruit from each and then dropping it and moving on to the next tree.
As with many of us, our thought process runs in much the same way. We jump from thought to thought and project to project without really ever being in the present and fully experiencing everything we are doing at a given time.
This was an excellent description of myself until a few years ago, still is on some days.
I use it as a reminder.
I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people and assume the deserve it.
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- So... by Tau, 06/30/2003 06:58:32 AM EST (5.00 / 2)
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these are the most boring stories I've ever seen.
Let's get this out of the way, this will be the generic template post, "I picked my nick because it was from move/book/comic/thing X which is the coolest/greatest/best/stupidest thing ever.
If you can *ADD* to that story, post, otherwise save k5 some diskspace.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. - Dave Foley
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- Lighten up dude! by Ta bu shi da yu, 06/30/2003 06:00:39 AM EST (5.00 / 1)
- :-) yea by omegadan, 06/30/2003 12:22:08 PM EST (4.00 / 1)
- hi /nt by theantix, 06/30/2003 02:01:56 PM EST (5.00 / 1)
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The problem with this article, is that it assumes that one only has one user name that one uses :).
This particular name is inertia - I aquired it in 1991 so, when I needed a replacement for my original, incredibly lame name that I was putting on things ("the fuzz", which I also had no idea as being a reference to police when I chose it, one of the reasons I felt the need to change it), and I happened to walk past a simpsons arcade machine showing the copyright messages "Binky is a life in hell (c) 19xx, Matt Groening.". Having no idea that "A Life in Hell" was the name of a comic strip, my lame 13 year old mind took on the name.
In another life, tho, I'm known as fish, because "How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?" "Fish!". In yet another, I'm "Pigfucker 40,000", which is a combination of southpark references ("Terrence, why would you call me a pig fucker?" "Well, first of all, you fuck pigs!" "oh yeah!"). In yet another, I'm known as "Vector Baby", because on the day I needed a new account, I had been playing battle zone all day, because I do love vector games, and I'm a bit of a baby sometimes :-p.
In yet another, I'm known as "Jaymz Hates You", because I don't, but it just seems easier than dealing with people sometimes :). This goes along with "OpenJaymz", because any product that contains "Open" in the name usually isn't (openbsd excepted, think Caldera OpenLinux/Sco OpenServer/Sun OpenWindows/etc).
Of course, there is a far-too-long-to-be-a-k5-username-but-great-on-msn username of "I went out searching for god, but all I found was a ham. The Ham was tasty, but that's hardly the point, is it". I have no ieda where that came from. My other one, "Eat Junk Food Watch Junk TeeVee Drink Me - I'm caffine free" was something I read in a c64 scroll text once, tho - who says computer games don't encourage thinking? :)
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It started with IRC, back in 1994. I used my real first name (being the naive, innocent babe I was), which is obviously female, and after a few months (like I said, I was naive) realized that perhaps a more asexual nick would make things easier. I let my mind wander, and finally experienced an epiphany ... while eating strawberry pie: I would be strawberry! I was studying French at university, so used the French word: fraise.
This worked better than I'd counted on: non French speakers often assume it's "Frasier" misspelled, and think I'm a man, whereas French speakers just think it's weird, and for some odd reason, never assume I'm female either, even though the word is feminine. My close French friends came up with the nicknamed-nickname "fraise des bois", which means "wild strawberry", but literally translates as "forest strawberry", since I'm originally from an area covered by forests.
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...just my name. Imaginative, huh?
Seriously, though, I like to think it stands out amongst all the made-up usernames. I also like the fact that it shows that I'm willing to stand behind my comments, with the full force of my real life persona, and not hide behind some secret online identity.
Oh, who am I kidding? I'm just really unimaginative.
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Time for another Tale of Disinterest! (5.00 / 1) (#272)
by kesuari on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 05:56:50 AM EST
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See, my mother wanted to call me Felix. But my father wouldn't stand for that, so they called me something different instead. But Felix is a better name than Tristan, so on the Internet I sometimes go buy the name Felix. Then a friend of mine observed that I was odd, so I was Felix the Cat on Whirlpool for a while. But then someone criticised me for being unoriginal, and seeing as I liked cassowaries, I changed my name to Felix the Cassowary. Then I went to sign up for another Yahoo! ID, so I tried cassowary, but someone had already take it. Not to be outdone, I gave casuarius a shot. But apparently people know Latin, too. So I went back even further and got 'kesuari'. Recently, I've also been 'casoar', being the French word for 'cassowary', or so I've been told by a Frenchman.
My other nick here, which I never use, is zsau. I needed a Yahoo! ID some time ago, so I tried to make one. But it was hard... So I took the name of a dialect of my conlang Finnstek (being Finnzsa) and stripped it of its first bit, but zsa was already taken. Being Australian, I tried adding au to the end. Except that my fingers refused to type aa for some reason, so it was zsau. For those that know the IPA, it's pronounced [Zæu]. And not [Zau]. This nick is currently my user ID at Whirlpool and on my website: http://zsau.firespeaker.org/. Not that there's anything there, though.
Another nick not used here (in fact, the only place its still used is on my computer) is 'anstouh', arrived at by needing a Yahoo! ID (see, rather than wade through spam, I just get a new email addy), so I hit the home row of my keyboard. And I use the dvorak keyboard layout.
What creativity! What interest!
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Tetsuwan atomu is the Japanese name of Astro Boy. Tetsuwan means iron arm. It's mostly a matter of practicality, since the internet abuse of romanized Japanese names is quite small. Which says something about the (lack of) impact of Japanese internet users in English-speaking forums.
Njal's Saga: Just like Romeo & Juliet without the romance
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My name is feared by my enemies, respected by my peers and loved by the hunnies. But alas, it is only my name.
Bush/Cheney 2004! - "Because we've still got more people to kill"
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is a bacteria and I'm in microbiology.
I thought it was funny to add such a subtle change as (lis--> llus) to subtilis.
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There's very little else to it, I'm afraid. (The bio's a little out-of-date; I'm working on updating it with my most recent dozen or so accomplishments.)
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I'm not the biggest guy in the world, so I found it suitably self-deprecating to chose bigchris as my username. Oh, and Chris is my first name.
Apparently, if silent chris and myself got into a fight I would win.
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I Hate Jesus: -1: Bible thumper
kpaul: YAAT. YHL. HAND. btw, YAHWEH wins ;) [mt]
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Back around 1997 or so I was trying to sign up for a Yahoo mail account. Jayhawk was already taken, and of course they were nice enough to suggest sticking a number on the end, like "2" or "1997". So I hit upon "88", the last year KU won the national championship in basketball. jayhawk88 has pretty much been my standard username for all things ever since.
The funny postscipt to this, however, is that I eventually forgot about that Yahoo account for a couple years, and couldn't remember the password when I tried to log into it again when I really needed a Yahoo email address. So I had to create a new one, which is now my current Yahoo mail, rockchalk88.
Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web? -- John Ashcroft
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I always assumed your username was some trollish derivation of The bullshitter you.
'Never once considered it might be genuine.
yicky yacky
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'The actual reasonable Britons are correct, you're being a cock.' - Hide The Hamster.
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Since when you have that user name? (5.00 / 1) (#298)
by gmuslera on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 09:53:36 AM EST
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I have mine from '89-'90 more or less. In that time, in BBSs, well, when I can use my full name I used it (even with a space in the middle), but else, I used this, the initial of my name and my surname.
But it not need be so easy and direct... is that in my own BBS, where I use my full name, some know also the other nick, and in some moment someone in a joke called me General, and that started to be used for a lot of friends, so in fact my username have 2 implicit meanings, one "formal" without problem to use in business cards and such, and other one with good associations and memories for friends,
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In fact, I just made it up for K5.
What does it mean? It's what my real name would mean if it were translated from its original language(es) to English. I just contracted it for show.
Thus, Judas Light, ne'er-do-well nothingoutoftheordinare was born.
Woopie.
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The mind isn't a vessel to be filled but a torch to be ignited.
Some Dude
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I had been griping about how certain things were better in the "good old days" and someone else asked if I was around in caveman times. I had that on my mind when I registered at Slashdot, and I decided to keep the same name at K5.
Information wants to be beer.
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My username is just a shortened form of my surname (Giddings).
You might think that's boring. You might be right :) But after using a couple of quite extravagant names at college, I wanted a general name that was fairly rare, but fairly short, and transparent; one that folks who know me will find easy to associate with me. So this is it. I first coined it many years ago when joining CIX, but I use the same ID practically everywhere.
Sorry this isn't an interesting story. I guess I just feel that there's a place for being really clever or obscure, making people feel stupid, or making puns that will wear thin after a few thousand repetitions – and a user ID isn't it.
Andy/
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ResQ (aka Rescue)
+ sQuad
Rescue + Squad. Hence, ResQuad. Just in case you were wonderin where I got the first part from, I stole it from the ol' Lego's set that they named R.E.S.Q. or something to that affect (its been a while).
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"I WIN THE END!" -Me
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Talnkyo means "the smith" or "the creator" in my invented language, Qanareqi (kah-nah-lreh-kee).
Talns (infinitive) - s (verb marker) + kyo (masculine ending)
Tahln-kai-oh (the "y" is a vowel, a "long 'I'"
Great story, by the way. I'm hoping we'll be able to hear where Foreskin and Hymen Reconstructive Surgeries got their name ;-P
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Do a google on hash house harriers to find out more
People can be put into 10 groups:
Those that understand binary and those that don't.
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I will only tell my God... (5.00 / 1) (#311)
by mold on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 11:09:38 AM EST
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And I'm an atheist, so you'll never know I guess.
I could swear I've answered this before. Damn.
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Beware of peanuts! There's a 0.00001% peanut fatality rate in the USA alone! You could be next!
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Everyone runs into the "all the good ones are taken" situation when signing up on Yet Another Discussion Forum Website. The 87C751 is an 8051 variant by Phillips-Signetics (and the 8051 is a family of 8-bit microprocessors originated by Intel). The '751 was one of my favorites when I was doing embedded design and programming. It packs 2,048 bytes of EPROM and a whopping 64 bytes (yes, bytes) of RAM into a 24-pin skinny-DIP. No UART, but you can bit-bang an output port to produce serial data out.
And the best part: I haven't seen a collision yet.
My ranting place.
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I'm not very imaginative either... LNXCWBY is my license plate, short for LinuxCowboy. So it's either lnxcwby or slacker, depending on where I am, but slacker for a username is anything but common. oh well .l.
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- ENOENT
- O_CREAT is not set and the named file does not exist. Or, a
directory component in pathname does not exist or is a dangling
symbolic link.
So nyah.
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Italian for crimson pig. Porco Rosso is the title of my favorite movie of all time.
Also has connotations to being a "Communist Pig" which my coworkers often accuse me of being (I never understand this - I want the government off my back and I want everyone to behave without having to be coerced - I guess anything that isn't Republocrat must be communist <sigh>).
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Buy scented bookmarks from my wife's store.
Perhaps you could use a freelance LAMP programmer?
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mine was fairly easy to come up with. (5.00 / 1) (#317)
by joshsisk on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 11:18:08 AM EST
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(nt)
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logjamming.com : web hosting for weblogs, NOT gay lumberjack porn
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being interested in media and open source, and free speech, i took data - something i'm very interested in, and added punk, referring to my anarchic politics regarding information flows and free speech. i don't look like a punk, unless you mean in the original tense - as in, looking like someone who is gay/ambigous/androgenous/non standard/scapegoatworthy. and only then when i feel like it... ...and i figured i may as well make it something that'll sound stupid and dated in six months time. i've never gotten a tattoo, so this is the next best thing. plus, i can do it over and over without getting expensive tattoo removal surgery.
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my friends at high school decided to name me h'biki after the annoying character from macross 2. apparently i had an uncanny similarity with that character.
not being japanese my friends spelt it h'biki rather than hibiki. i've been using it ever since. i'm the only h'biki on the web, which is pretty fucken cool. cause i'm pretty fucken cool. and unique. and annoying.
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I take all knowledge to be my province.
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biki.net/blog/
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is Bill Mill. Figure it out.
Peace.
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C&P from similar thread on newzBin's forum:
Long, long ago, in a galaxy^Wcollege just down the road, I was introduced to the Internet, courtesy of a bunch of 68k Macs and a 128kbps microwave link.
Consequently, I needed a nick for various websites etc; so, being a lonely self-depreciating misfit, I chose "Freaky". I haven't changed much in that respect, so neither has my nick.
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It's just my first initial and last name.
Alfred Differ -> adiffer
--BE The Alien!
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The name is from a song called burn up by one of those rare good 80s bands: Siouxsie and the Banshees. I've always been a pyro.
My depiction of the female variety from behind is this hottie.
When I was planning to make my own ISP, I found this.
In a very real sense, *anyone* who makes a public issue out of the fact that they are involved with Linux in any way is seen as an advocate.
(Derek Glidden)
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I use this and redbeard in various locations. JearBear was a nickname a friend randomly gave to me sometime in the middle school. He thought it was so hilarious he called me jearbear over and over again until it stuck. Often I use redbeard - not that I'm a redhead or anysuch, my hair is quite brown, but my beard has a freakish amount of red hair in it, which really comes out in the summer or the tropics.
mundane, I know, but there you have it
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I chose my name because of my obsession with improvised rapping. 'Freestyle' means improvised lyric (usually rapped, though there are sung freestyles, and it is sometimes used for non-improvised raps) and 'fiend' means addict.
In hiphop forums people expect me to rap, which is annoying, partly because I don't rap, but mostly because posting text 'raps' is silly.
I record unreleased hiphop from the radio and download it from peer-to-peer networks. One day I plan to make a website with hashes of my best stuff to help people find it (and know that it is genuine) on peer-to-peer networks.
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Nothing Amazing (5.00 / 1) (#332)
by spi on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 12:40:47 PM EST
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Its my initials:
Steven Paul Isaacson
-steve
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My name's Mike Roberto, my nickname with buddies is Berto, but when I went to make my AIM screenname back in 97, it was already take. So I somehow thought up MicroBerto, which is funny because I'm not at all that creative!
Berto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Bertoline - My comic strip
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From the old Fidonet days... (5.00 / 1) (#334)
by X-Nc on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 12:44:50 PM EST
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Back in the BBS days I would normally just use my full name and esque any aliases or nicks. In the "real world" of work, I have had the username of last-name-first-initial since '82. I tended to use one or the other depending on the system and situation the login was for.
Then, one day back in '95 or so, I got on a friends site to help her test some stuff and she required an alias to get access. Thinking fast. . . . . . . . . it occured to me that I had just retired as the Fidonet Net Cooridnator (normally shortened to NC) for Net-109 just recently so, since that made me an ex-net coordinator, I chose X-Nc. Lately, I have encountered other people using this alias on some sites. However, I only use this alias on sites where I don't really have a vested interest in or that don't benifit me WRT work or life in general. K5 is fun and informative but I really only use the diary here.
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Aaahhhh!!!! My K5 subscription expired. Now I can't spell anymore.
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I was staring blankly trying to come up with a handle I hadn't already used somewhere else (I try to stay mysterious that way). Then I realized that the object I was staring blankly at was my stereo. The stereo LCD panel said "AUX," for auxiliary input 1. Auxiliary. Awgsilyari.
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"I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world.
My surname is Lu and my personal name is Yu, but I am not to be confused with the eminent author of The Classic of Tea. My family is quite undistinguished, and since I am the tenth of my father's sons and rather strong I am usually referred to as Number Ten Ox."
Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart
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Very simple way to understand my nick (5.00 / 2) (#345)
by theantix on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 02:08:13 PM EST
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In many cultures, the letter "x" is used as shorthand for "christ".
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"SalesGirl was my designated driver" -- terpy
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I'm (still) a big fan of acid jazz.
My nick comes from the edge of the CDs released by the british label "Acid Jazz". They read: "JAZID".
so, i spanishfied it. jazzido = jazz + ácido.
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I used to use nicknames that had relevance but the one day I decided, I was here (on the internet) to get away from it all. So I started using just completely made up nicknames, with as little to do with me as possibly. One day I started using mE123, and it just stuck.
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My name is after a character in a square rpg called Xenogears (which has BTW the best plot ever made in any game,book,movie i have ever seen) i just think it sounds cool...
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I used to go through nicks on a monthly basis until I picked Mercutio after reading Romeo & Juliet mostly because it looks aesthetically cool :) I've had it for about 4 years now but am starting to use "Mercooshio" to kind of unique-ify it.
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Agent Humble - Indymedia (5.00 / 1) (#354)
by humble on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 02:46:55 PM EST
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I was travelling with some friends back from the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon and we were talking about an inspirational presentation we had attended put on by "Agent Apple" of the Biotic Baking Brigade, about using humour and surpise in political activism.
We decided to follow the BBB model and give ourselves all 'agent' names, named after pies. I choose "humble" and it's served me well ever since.
Indymedia - Civil society's no-so-secret service.
Indymedia - Civil society's not-so-secret servicetm
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Stems from playing Dragon Warrior on my original NES. My original character name was Zanius (as in, zany-us). When I got online in the mid-90's I thought Zanius might be a little too silly, so thinking up another name with a 'z', I came up with Zaxus. I liked it, so it stuck around.
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"If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today." - Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan
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My last name is Low, and my initials are C.A. Plus, everybody thinks I'm nuts anyway. ;-)
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That is not dead which may eternal lie
and with strange aeons death itself may die
That is not dead which may eternal lie
And with strange aeons death itself may die.
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- sooooo mysterious by mercutio, 06/30/2003 06:38:43 PM EST (5.00 / 1)
- ROFLMAO! by Alhazred, 07/01/2003 10:29:53 AM EST (none / 0)
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damnit all these 'facts' getting in the way of my writing - turmeric
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A while back I decided I wanted to unify my online identity. I didn't really have any interesting online nicks, I had the nickname monster for a while in high school (perpetuated by a friend when I was on the wrestling team for a few years, I absolutely hated it at first, ensuring that it gained moderately widespread usage). Over on /. and here on K5 I had just used my very uncool hein0173 University of Minnesota undergrad ID. I decided I needed to come up with something that had a bit of style. I also wanted a permanent email addy since my student and staff ones at the U of M would not last forever. I decided that a yahoo.com addy would make a great test: if I can find an identifier that is unique there, it is probably unique almost anywhere, and I can make it my own.
What made this a bit troublesome was that I wanted it to be one word, partly because I liked the idea but also because it makes a better login name for many places, as well as email address. I settled on the word "Arcane" for the base. I knew I would not get that spelling on Yahoo, and I didn't want anything dumb like Arcane86, so I started on some alternative spellings.
It took a lot more tries than I thought it would. Arkane, Arcain, Arkain, Arkaen, and probably a few others were already used up. Others I rejected because I didn't like how they looked. I finally settled on Arkaein, with its somewhat extreme triple vowel combo. I currently use it on K5, /., my own website (which I now have another permanent email address on), SourceForge, and several other sites simply as a login ID.
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Pieces of it were on the ground. I noticed them, all scattered about, put them together so that they sounded like a plausible name, and started using it as a pen name quite a long while before I heard of k5.
I like the breaking sounds of "Kaki", which I pronounce with long vowel sounds (not like the cloth with similar spelling). I later learned that it refers to both a small deciduous, fruit bearing Asian tree and a type of bird found in the New Zealand area. "Nix" is also a neat sounding word which means "nothing", "no", and a mischievous water spirit. "Sain" is a verb for blessing so as to protect from evil and also has semantic connections to "sign" and "say". Oh, and it sounds cool too. Together "Nix Sain" can mean something like "no sign" which is a rather self-contradictory thing to put in a name. Furthermore, as a bonus, it sounds like "nix sane", which implies a lack of sanity.
So, together the words form a neat constellation ideas. But mostly I like the way they sound together.
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No smoking, no spitting (5.00 / 2) (#367)
by TheMgt on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 05:02:20 PM EST
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NO EMPLOYEE MAY, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, PUNCH
THE TIME CARD FOR ANY OTHER EMPLOYEE.
ANY DEVIATION WILL RESULT IN TERMINATION.
THE MGT.
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I was setting up an email address with my local broadband provider.. and i was a rather troubled youth at the time.. "Darkchild" was taken.. so i used "darqchild"
okay.. so it's not terribly exciting..
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Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a smartass.
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John Smith -> johsmit
Jane Bloggs -> janblog
my name -> andfarm
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In my online salad days I was malachai, having nothing to do with misspelling a book in the bible and everything to do with a dorm neighbour's through-the-door-crack glimpse of me whilst watching "Children of the Corn". It began to be a common nick, so...
For a brief time I was then lothiel, "The Sloth of God"--not slothiel since that was too obvious. That, too, became common.
I am content so far with Pax Unix (or occasionally paxunix), since (if Google is your god) it does not exist in the known universe except where I have used it. Elsewhere, the person is an impostor.
Pax Unix: a combination of etymology and personal preference.
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It's a minor character from The Book.
Once upon a time I thought it'd be cool to copy a cool name from a cool book. This one had the advantage to even have a nice three-letter short form, which was essential for the high score lists of the time.
It stuck anyway, and the only collisions are with my own forgotten entries.
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It came from Sticky (5.00 / 1) (#373)
by Lenny on Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 05:48:00 PM EST
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One day in my high school trig class, a classmate of mine, Sticky, looked at a poster that was hanging in our room. The poster was an artists rendition of George & Lenny from "Of Mice and Men". Sticky apparantly thought that I looked like Lenny; he pointed at me and proclaimed, "Lenny!". It stuck.
"Hate the USA? Boycott everything American. Particularly its websites..."
-Me
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It's from my first initial, "e," and "pepke," which sounds like the name of a breakfast cereal.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.--Terry Pratchett
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Betty Ann Edwards --> beaned
Marc Ross Richards Jr. --> marori2
Bill Atchison Christopher --> well you know...
my name --> rodoke3
For some reason, people (that I know) don't seem to get it until you explain it to them. Luckily, no one else seems to be using this nick, according to Google. I would have used "rodoke", but appearently the search engines told me otherwise.
I take umbrage with such statments and am induced to pull out archaic and over pompous words to refute such insipid vitriol. -- kerinsky
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I remember sitting there, with my old nick on my mind, thinking how I needed a change... The first thing to my mind was 'Threed', but I didn't want to use it because it could be read as "Three-D" like 3D, three dimensional. And it's not as if that didn't fit well, because at the time I was learning 3D graphics programming (never anything huge, the most complicated thing I made was a spinning cube in 386 asm, being more proud of the opcodes than the output... ah, DOS, we hated thee for all the wrong reasons).
So I sat, and tried and tried to come up with something else, but Threed stuck. When I took it to the chat rooms and IRC, I'd always get comments like "haha you're a VBX in my windows dir!" though it's been a long time since I've heard that one.
And this is only the 3rd or 4th time I've told the Story of My Nick, so feel honored or something. You'll never see me connect myself with all my old nicks :)
--Threed - Looking out for Numero Uno since 1976!
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It all started twenty or more years ago when I had to come up with a user name for my account on a university Unix machine. I wasn't attending, just had a job typesetting manuals using troff on a brand-spankin'-new DEC PDP 11-780.
Edward Gorey's books often have one of these running around in the background. One particularly memorable illustration places one in an antique store, mounted under a glass bell.
Also, to some people from the southern US states, it means something similar to "the vapors" or maybe "a hissy fit". Which is pretty much how I behave online.
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When a friend asked me to make a website for him, back in 1995, I dreamed high and tought about starting my own computer-related company.
So, first of all, I needed a name for this company, which never came to existence. Well, that's what I thought I had to do first in back then, when I was only 15. I was reading too much web-design theory, and I was also thinking about displaying banner ads to make some money.
So, a lot of web ads are paid using CPM, or cost per thousand, and it was recommended that you kept your site visitors the longest time possible surfing your website. To me, it would look like an inertia effect, if they would came and see a good flash animation, or good graphics, and would cause a sensorial inertia on their minds, making people stare on their monitors while looking at my ads.
Therefore I decided that "Inércia Sensorial" would be the name of my company, which means "sensorial inertia" (translated to english from portuguese (I am from Brazil)).
"inerte" is the object, or thing, which the inertia effect is happening (in Portuguese, I have no idea how it is in English)
Like I said, my company "Inércia Sensorial" never really launched, and now I am programmer.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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...but since everyone else is posting their not-so-interesting tales, I'll throw mine in too. Warning: this story is long and uninteresting. Don't complain.
Way back in my early college days, before the Internet was well known, I got myself hooked on the CompuServe CB Simulator (the granddaddy of computer chat rooms). I had recently discovered anime, and my favorite anime at the time was Ranma 1/2, so I was going by the nick of Saotome Ranma. Anime being under the radar at the time, lotsa people thought it was cool-sounding.
One afternoon I was hanging out in the Newcomers channel chatting with the Helper on duty when a person by the nick of Mombear pops in and asks some questions about old Apple ][ stuff. The Helper didn't know any answers, but I did, so we talked for a little while. And, as always happened, she asked about my nick. When I told her where it came from, she perked up. "Oh, my daughter's into that stuff! You should talk to her, she'll be on my channel later tonight." Mombear had somehow gotten herself and her circle of chatters their own channel on CB, called The Bear Cave.
So, later that evening, I popped in to The Bear Cave to see what was going on. There were some other chatters who I knew from other areas, but they had all modified their nicks to add some form of "bear" to them. When in Rome, eh? So I switched my nick to "RanmaBear". And when Mombear saw me, she said, "Ranma! You look like a panda!"
(If you're familiar with Ranma 1/2, you'll find that amusing. If not, you're probably thinking, "Huh? I don't get it." It would take too long to explain, so you'll just have to hunt down the show and watch it to find out that part.)
So from that point, I was RanmaPanda when in The Bear Cave. After several weeks, I got tired of switching it, so I used RanmaPanda all the time.
Then, about that time, I met and became friends with the girl who is now my wife. She was a physics major. When I talked her into getting on the CB Simulator to meet Mombear and the clan, she decided to use "Quantum Bear" as her nick. Simple, straightforward.
Later on, when we got married, I decided that I had to combine the nicknames somehow. If she was the Quantum Bear, I concluded that I must be the Quantum Panda. I've been using it ever since, almost ten years now. The only nick collisions I've ever had with it have been sites where I couldn't remember an old password and had to re-register. (I've registered on AIM about ten times, and keep losing the passwords. I don't think they ever purge account names at AOL.)
I also use Quantum Panda as my fandom name in SF/F fandom. There are several people I see at conventions every year who can never remember my real name, but they always remember Quantum Panda. (Of course, it helps that I usually have pinned to my shoulder a small plush panda with bat wings--that's memorable.)
Out of curiousity, I've Googled "quantum panda" (with and without quotes) and "quantumpanda" every so often. The only consistent link that comes up that's not somehow related to me is for an air purifier that's called a Quantum Panda.
Now, aren't you so not glad you read all that? :-)
People are stupid. But we usually can't kill them, so we have to settle for the next best thing: we laugh at them.
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my name used to stand for Santa Cruz Operation, but then i was acquired by another firm, which was in turn bought by Caldera and is now known as The rmg Group. in that process somewhere, it changed from Santa Cruz Operation to just rmg. i guess they just thought rmg seemed more modern just as a meaningless comination of letters, kind of like sgi. anyway, that's where my name came from.
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intellectual tiddlywinks
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There was a scientist Named Drake who came up with a equation about how many planets contains life as intelligent or more intelligent than humans. The numbers 34 and 11 are for the number of accounts that were named drake and 11 is the day of my birth. 3411 is also the last digits of my grandma's phone number.
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"Shaper" is from the Shaper/Mechanist universe in Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling. Something about the way the main character careened from situation to situation and just adapted with every change, it resonated with me.
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My first name was "kumquat" which, as those who know Carnac the Magnificent remember, is defined as "what you say when calling your quat."
After about five years, I hit a period in my life where I was making my name based on my study of parliamentary procedure, and I eventually morphed into "parliboy".
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Eat at the Dissonance Diner.
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Back in the BBS days you would be asked for your real name and then an optional handle. You could just hit enter when asked for the handle and it would default to using your real name. So when I was asked "What is your handle (<enter> for none)?" I typed in enterfornone and have used it ever since.
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efn 26/m/syd
Will sponsor new accounts for porn.
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- Ahhhhh by The Writer, 07/02/2003 03:09:45 PM EST (none / 0)
One time I was sitting at a signup prompt for a MUD I was intent on playing, and it said I had to have some kind of medieval name, and I thought "hmmm... gol.. rien" and that was that.
It sounds kind of goofy, usually I just go by the name of Sam. But as usernames go, golrien is way more unique than sam, so on a big site I obviously go with golrien.
so that was fun.
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Comes from my motto on how to live my life. I would have taken Mr Goat, but that was taken already (the reason for mrgoat involves a story about an ISP, wherein we almost got management to sign off on a pygmy goat as a network admin, largely because the management was considering outsourcing their network admin support, as a networking company; and so they wised up, and nixed the outsourcing, after they realized they needed people who could tell the difference between a goat and a network admin. Prior to this, we almost sold them on a goat powered router to lower equipment costs by 90%- "It just needs wire, a little water, and it produces perfect evenly sized packets!"; this was due to management thinking they could sell all the equipment.' Believe it or not, they were profitable through most of the crash and so they sold themselves to C&W- not that this mattered to me, I had already flown the clownhouse well before this point.)
So, I couldn't take mrgoat, and didn't want to be meestergoat, or something like that. Libertine is the alternate I always pick for a nick, because the decisions I make almost always center around "how much more can I enjoy my life and new experiences if I do X?". Oh, and because I am a pierced out pervert. Go figure.
"Live for lust. Lust for life."
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After meeting a programming challenge, on the TI-85 no less, I included a line in the program bragging that it used "Sal's Logic" (Sal being my name). This was quickly shortened to SaLogic.
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you can change a username. that cost a friend of mine a relationship cause he wouldnt change his old s/n.
im not terribly creative, so when i was trying to make my username, i just used my name - josh. of course thats going to be taken so i tried every sequence of number that i liked, and they were all already taken. i ended up with my girlfriends birthday because it was open. j0sh1130. that didnt work out so well, so i changed it to j0sh999. but the other one was already used for all my logins and what not, so i switched back.
then one lazy day in college, we were making up new names cause we were tired of the meaning behind our old ones. we realized we always greeted each other the same way. wed always say, it's kamal, because wed always see kamal and point to him around campus. and hey scott when we greeted scott. and mine ended up being look, josh. yeah, i got screwed on that one. but, it was better than having my ex-gf's birthday sitting at the end. so from that day on, its been my s/n. and luckily, since it seems that most j0sh usernames are dissappearing, im finding it increasingly easier to just use my name for some logins. i like that. the j0s)( permutation was when i was trying to get rid of the 1130 and found out that certain sites allowed )(. well not all sites allowed it, so rather than make a new username for /. and k5, i just keep it like that.
on a brighter note, a couple weeks ago, i was rethinking my username choices and and i couldnt for the life of me remember why id pick 1130. it took about 5 minutes of thinking before i remember the girl. i had a good chuckle to myself over it.
-- j0sh -- of course im over-dramatizing my statements, but thats how its done here, sensationalism, otherwise you wouldnt read it.
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errr...i'm lazy but there's a story way back there (5.00 / 2) (#399)
by robot138 on Tue Jul 01, 2003 at 12:46:56 AM EST
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so mine is my domain name(s) minus the .whatever
the real story is that the domain name is robot (i like the cardboard box kind, like in one of my tattoos) and 138 (as in the misfits song. yes the misfits.)
and the real real story is that i guess at some point, the misfits sold pins at shows. pins with a robot and 138 on them. yeah. so think about that.
e.b.a.c
a.a.r.o
s.y.t.r
t._._.e
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The handle I use today I haven't had for long: just under 3 years now (let's not talk about what I used before; it's another long and boring story, and one is enough per post). When I first got my own apartment, I had to get a phone. The phone company gives you a few options to pick from, and I asked for one that had no 0s or 1s in it, so I could spell something from it. The number was 683-5625, and the rest is history. As a bonus, until I moved, no one EVER forgot my phone number, and I've NEVER run into a problem with it being taken, unlike some previous handles I've used.
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But everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.
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Not a very long story, but one that started out different to how it ended...
I used to play D&D (hands up those on here that didn't!) anyhow, I also used to watch D&D the cartoon and was taken by the mother of all Dragons (IIRC she didn't appear in the D&D or AD&D until after the cartoon series, but I digress) and thought "that'll be a cool name to use" certainly better than some of my character names (Worramess is the one that I always remember...).
So I used it for several years and then thought "I wonder where it comes from....
It depends on which books you read but it is either:
a) Macedonian earth mother (diana for those in pre-history) OR
b) Some other peoples lord of creation which is depicted as a multi-headed dragon (Really must re-read Anne McCaffery's A Diversity of dragons again)
However both of the above are spelt differently (slightly) ie Tiamat as opposed to tiermat, the only thing I knew about tiamat before were that were a European Death Metal Band...
So there you go, long winded and boring in places....
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- Tiamat by MImeKillEr, 07/01/2003 10:03:32 AM EST (none / 0)
- Tiamat by wurp, 07/01/2003 12:45:38 PM EST (none / 0)
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Originally from the Who track "I can see for miles". It took relevance one day at the Notting Hill Carnival, where a small suburb of London suddenly explodes into a riot of soca sound systems, West Indian and African food, and more than a few suspicious looking cigarettes. At 6'5", I realised I could see way further than anyone else - in fact, while most people were looking at the backs of other people's heads, I was able to see right to the ends of the streets. I'd been listening to the Who that morning, and had just lost my previous nick, so it seemed to fit.
My nick used to be GreyArea, after the Iain M Banks ship-mind, but I lost track of it after an online hiatus. I remember once getting into a huge argument online when I confused the ship's alternative nick with mine in a discussion site - in the book, the ship's alternate name was Meatfucker (for its distasteful habit of actively "adjusting" the brains of humans).
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For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
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My usual handle is orac, after I just couldn't think of handle and a coleague suggested I was about as annoying as the character in Blake's 7. Sometimes I change to Oracuk if someone else go there first, given that I am from the UK. But Orac was taken on K5 so I chose peace makes plenty from the ship names created by Iain M Banks in his sci fi novels set in the Culture universe. I also think it's a nice sentiment.
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Here are some of my various user names. I am not satisfied with any of them, and I want a new one:
Misagon: I tried to sqeeze in "Hey, it's me once again" in a 8-char highscore list entry. Became "Me1sagan" -> "misagn" ->(katakana)-> "Misagon". I use misAGONY in Quake.
Raindoll: Sounds the same as when you properly pronounce the name of the encryption algorithm "Rijndael" aka AES.
Darth Lars: I use this one in StarWars/props forums. I wanted to confuse people with false information about Episode II.. nah, well.. I used it, it stuck. Worse than any above, because people assume that my name would be Lars.
Petey Saks: My username on starwars.com. Petey Saks = PT Sucks, i.e. the Prequel Trilogy really blows. Don't use this one much.
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I wrote a program called Directory Opus. Actually I still do. It's really all I've done for the past 13 years. I don't have much imagination apart from that so the name was the best I could do :)
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Yes, it's true. My username is actually a kind of mnemonic secret handshake that informs other members of my cabal that I am one of the initiated. It breaks down like this:
Chee = This is the ancient Chinese concept of chi or water-softened melba toast, which is a traditional metaphor for the inner struggle between crunchiness and a runny noise.
Se = This is a powerful meditational mantric syllable, which translates literally as "yo' momma!"
Burg = This represents the City of God, where all of my children will oneday unite under a banner of conquest.
Erb = Ja mon, that's irie! Pass another smoke, mon! I'm hungry.
Rown = This represents the Crown of Gonbar-Tish, an artefact of the little known Pissadeo aboriginal people of Wampole Island in the South Pacific. He who possesses the crown can will any woman to organism with a nod, so it is often considered a symbol of expert cheese identification, exotic message and all the good parts about Soviet Russia.
I hope this has made things clearer for everyone. I thank you for your attention / je vous remercie pour votre attention.
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I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski. Personally, I pref
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"werner" is the name of a guy i used to work with years ago. i hated him. it all started one day when i was particularly annoyed with him and entered "wernerblowsgoats" as my username in morpheus.
"wernerblowsgoats" seemed a little puerile for most uses, hence the "werner", but it does come in handy for websites where you need to join to read articles (newspapers etc.) because i never have the "username taken" problem. what's more, i still take quiet satisfaction from typing it, because he does.
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its.. just my initials... How many of u have intials that you can sepak out normally?
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The usernames I'm known by..
"MImeKillEr". Look at the caps. It spells MIKE, my name. Plus, I detest mimes & clowns. It fits.
"Faze3". Faze was my best friend's 'tagging' name in highschool. It evolved to Faze3 since Faze, Faze1, and Faze2 were all taken on Deja.com when it existed. Used to honor him (he's my bro after all...)
"Zodiac". Circa 1979. I was watching a program about serial killers (great entertainment for an 8-yr-old) and they talked about the Zodiac Killer in California. I though the name sounded cool. So, when I got into BBSing in 1984, I started using it. This is my oldest and most-used handle. It evolved into 'Zodiac, the Cereal Killer' on chat boards. The joke was that I'd killed off two of the 3 guys from Cinnamon Toast Crunch (you only see Wendell now) and that I was after Tony the Tiger. Only a few people got it.
When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.
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Yep, Ender from Ender's Game, but ender was taken on the old Delphi bulletin board so I went for a vague phonetic.
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....recognised contradictions and the edges we may have difficulty in perceiving. So it was going to be liminal but that was taken, then considered iconoclast. Eventually I opted for irritant.
At the time I was spending a lot of time at www.Backspace.org and was heavily influenced by ideas from net.art, I wanted something to reflect that type of ethic. I liked the sound of it. For me irritant has loads of playful irreverence and it acknowledges Foucalts ideas on transgression. I have used the irritant moniker for eight years now and still like it. People close to me (affectionately) say the name suits me well.
For some reason women really like the name. No idea why.
irritant: CEO, Global Domination Enterprises, Inc.
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My username on K5 comes from the combination of two things, a usual username and a high school oddity.
"Tarsi" is a shortened form of "Tarnished Silence", one of my original usernames. It was too long, so I shortened it. It was a dark period of my life, seemed appropriate.
The "210" part comes from Orange 210, best explained HERE. Usually I leave the 210 part off the username.
My username on most text-based talkers is "Ribbon". No, I'm male and straight, thanks. I picked the name after struggling with getting a dot-matrix printer ribbon aligned just right and then logged on to a new talker. Well, I ended up staying there and the name stuck. Strangely enough, I respond to Ribbon just as much as my real name, as the people I talk to online often call me by my username.
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My grandfather died... (5.00 / 3) (#419)
by Wah on Tue Jul 01, 2003 at 11:52:22 AM EST
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...a few days before I was born. This caused my first name to become 'Roy'.
Later, I learned this was pronounced different in Canadia while watching grown men beat each other with sticks while skating on ice on knives they had attached to their boots. The announcer for this 'hockey' game kept yelling "Save by Wah!" after a particularly well-armoured combatant would stop a quickly moving cylindrical piece of rubber using said armour
Then I noticed how this "Wah" character spelled his name, 2+1 were put together, and now I compete with a good deal of mainland China for bragging rights on google.
It should also be noted that I dated a girl who was a friend of someone else who went by 'wah', and had happened to send me an email after seeing my nick on /. Yes, strangely enough, I actually got a date from posting weird shit on /.
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Fail to Obey?
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Wurp is a magic-user in the classic "Against the Giants" module for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. After the module (in which I played Wurp), I made up a first level m-u for a campaign (I was 13 at the time).
It just so happened that that character survived through a campaign that was played regularly for five years, and played very sporadically after that until today (15 years later). Wurp is now a 22nd level m-u (I think; it's been at least two years since I last played him). He was a power hungry chaotic neutral (with good tendencies) nut case who wore purple robes with odd sized green spots, and who made a crossbreed between ogres and ivy (plant ogres, my bestest friends and most devout worshipers [hey, I was their creator]), was turned to stone, ground up, and cast among the deserts of the world of Greyhawk (and was saved by buddies through wishes + other heavy magic), and who spent most of his post-18th level life possessing a clone of a fighter from his party (better stats ;).
It's not like that's important to anyone but me, but, hey, you asked.
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Buy my stuff
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The first one was just my last name. Then at some point I realised it wasn't 1337 enough. But hey, I was about ten at the time.
yabbo: I have no recollection where I got this from, but I think it might have been some stupid movie. Used it for a while on BBS's, probably around 1990 onwards.
phazer: For some reason I wanted to change my nick (although I think in BBS lingo they were called aliases instead of nicks) at some point so as to not be identified with my previous one. I don't think there was anything dodgy behind this, but I started liking the new nick better than the old one so it stuck.
Phazer obviously came from Star Trek. I had seen an episode of TNG just before registering with a new BBS. I remember thinking whether it was supposed to be spelled with an s or a z, and guessed wrong. I used this nick as the sysop of my BBS, Heavens Gate, in Finland. (The name had no apostrophe. I cannot recall if this was due to my bad English or coolness. Possibly both.)
mattitude: my ex-girlfriend tried pissing me off by calling me mattitude, from my first name Matti. This stuck, again, and slowly I started calling myself that on various sites. It seems that I am not the only one, but I didn't know about the others at the time. Curiously, my current girlfriend likes this as well. :) What I am particularly proud of is that I convinced my College computer support group to create me an alias mattitude@<college name> for my email.
mpj: my newest nick. Who wouldn't want to be in the same league with esr and rms? Obviously, all you need is a cool nick, right? This was a bit tricky because I actually have two middle initials. So I had to decide whether esr would be esr even if he had a second initial. I decided mpj is easier than mptj. Plus mpj01 was already my College userid. Basically the point is that this is short enough for my new email address, whose domain name is also three letters. It's all about efficiency.
:mpj
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I had my right hand one column off (5.00 / 2) (#423)
by ebunga on Tue Jul 01, 2003 at 12:57:03 PM EST
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In the BBS days, I originally used my real name. The most popular bbs in this area had a short, short, short time limit, hoping to get everybody to subscribe (like I could afford $35/mo when I was 12). So, I created about ten different accounts. Randomly, I chose 'enigma' and it stuck.
Fast forward to the Internet a few years down the road. I was configuring my email client, and I managed to have my right hand one column to the left and also was typing a bit too quickly and got two letters swapped around. n->b, i->u, m->n. So, 'enigma' became 'ebunga'. I thought it was funny, so I started using it in quake2 and on sites such as this.
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Remember that episode? Captain Tenille was the submarine captain on the sub Homer got stationed on. I had been using it as a karaoke nickname, and it amused me.
When I joined K5, I realized I had a pretty cool uid, so I've stuck with it, and now I'm "Captain_Tenille" or "Captain Tenille" (or occasionally "ct") most everywhere I go now.
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/* You are not expected to understand this. */
Man Vs. Nature: The Road to Victory!
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Courtesy of The Simpsons Archive
Homer: God, if you really are God, you'll get me tickets to that game.
[doorbell rings]
Ned: Heidely-ho, neighbor. Wanna go to the game with me? I got two
tick --
Homer: [slams the door] Why do you mock me, O Lord?
Marge: Homer, that's not God. That's just a waffle that Bart tossed up
there.
[Marge scrapes it off into Homer's hands]
Homer: I know I shouldn't eat thee, but -- [bites] Mmm, sacrilicious.
-- No waffle too sacred, "Homer Loves Flanders"
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They gave me my first name and initials!
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"Damian" is my real given name. My parents like to tell me that it wasn't based on a film called The Omen.
"yerricde" was assigned by a school based on my full legal name.
"pin0cchio" came from a need to play sockpuppet in a newsgroup. What better name to sockpuppet with than the name of the most famous puppet in Italian children's literature? Except it went so far that people started calling me "Pinocchio" in public, and that's what I go by half the time.
"tepples" was created with the help of a Scheme script.
lj65
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Watashi no namae... (4.50 / 2) (#429)
by Rocky on Tue Jul 01, 2003 at 04:02:26 PM EST
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...well, I a previous life, I was actually a rocket scientist. Then the Cold War ended.
Of course, I'm not going to deny a connection with Bullwinkle, either...
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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My state of being until I got dumb. Maybe if I start some of those brain excercises, that the baby boomers are talking about, I will get smarter again. Then I will only be bored at work... (accually someone else has boredatwork. so that won't make sense)
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Kryten, from Red Dwarf, the popular British sci-fi sitcom. Not the most original name, but I've used it everywhere for over 5 years now and I identify with it almost as much as my real name. I can't think of anything I'd rather go by. Many times I have to go by KrytenX or [Kryten] on popular websites, but sometimes I get lucky and Kryten hasn't been taken.
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- Kryten? by Horn, 07/02/2003 01:15:40 AM EST (none / 0)
- Alas, no by kryten, 07/02/2003 09:02:26 AM EST (none / 0)
Boring nicknames. (5.00 / 2) (#433)
by LGM on Tue Jul 01, 2003 at 08:48:20 PM EST
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LGM are my initials. First name, dad's surname, mom's surname. I mostly use Locoluis nowadays, which just means "crazy Luis" in my native language.
At least it doesn't sound like a warez-d00dz name. :D
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Luis González Miranda, just another chilean programmer and fellow Linux nut. My comics.
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I'm Famous French Canadian Pop Star Avril Lavigne!
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and voila!
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# Fuck the police, muthahfucka!
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Was watching Princess Mononoke, and when the cursed boar god charged out of the forest, spoke up to say: "That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen. What's it called?"
The other nick I frequently use is 'Crucifix', being a pun, or play on words if you will:
My first name=greek, 'of/for/belongs to Christ'
My middle name=Scots gaelic, 'red' or 'bloody'
My family name=old norse, 'tree'
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A while after I got started on the web, people started requiring "Your Real Name (not a nickname)" on various services. I didn't want to give out my real name. Bah, that was easy, they had to way to verify, I'd just put in something that sounded good.
I decided that I could use my initials, since I'd been known by them when another Joshua was around. "J. T."
That left the surname. I'd just been putting together some content for a Highlander feature on a website (and I was a fan of the show), so MacLeod immediately popped up. Hm, well... Mac..., like MacGuyver! MacLeod it was, and I decided I could be called "Mac" as a nickname if my regular nickname was taken.
And so it went. It sounded really lame when I started hanging out in #highlander on undernet. However, my nickname being "Blanch" (which people called me, short for "Blanchard", my actual surname), I realized that people kept mistaking me for a girl. As soon as the channel was history for me, "Mac" I became.
That worked OK until the Internet Boom, then "Mac" was taken EVERYWHERE.
So when I can't use Mac, I use J. T. MacLeod. Oddly enough, those became my aliases in "the real world", too.
Like many other posts in this story, this was a long tale for something so boring, eh? Proves we're narcicisstic.
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My original online anonym was the plain boring "Phoenix", a name I'd randomly picked about 10 years ago when I first played the game Wing Commander (with no sound on a dodgy 386, those were the days...). I started using it when I got online with a 2400 baud modem in 1997 (good ol' Australian internet) but everyone else already was using it.
So I went to rinkworks.com/namegen to look for a unique and interesting name, and refreshed the alternating names page a few times until I put together the following:
Narux Tenado Shiriji Haderuzo Gatyko
which has a kind-of-but-not-really Asian flavour to it. Not that I've ever bothered to use the entire name anywhere.
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the name of my ship when I played the PC game, 1889. It's set in victorian times or something and you fly zeppelin-like ships to other planets and whatnot, and space is supposed to be filled with the 'ether'. In other words, I'm really fucking lame. I think I was the first to use it as a name, but I've seen one or two usenet posts from before my time that use the term 'etherdeath', jokingly.
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of not realy meaningful phrase which slipped through my mind when I created the account: fhotg = "for here or to go".
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Gitarren für die Mädchen -- Champagner für die Jungs
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My k5 username (5.00 / 3) (#446)
by i on Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 05:41:25 AM EST
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is small. I mean, geometrically. I believe it's the smallest possible one1, because punctuation is not allowed. It's also the imaginary unit. It has nothing to do with the English singular first person pronoun 'I'.
1If you don't use weird fonts.
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and we have a contradicton according to our assumptions and the factor theorem
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There is static on K5... (5.00 / 2) (#447)
by static on Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 06:55:38 AM EST
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I wish I saw this earlier... Hmm. I picked my alias some years ago about 5 minutes before the first time I ever played Quake in multi-player mode.
But how did I chose "static"? At the time I had a bit of an interest in FASA's Shadowrun and in one of the books, there was a sequence of comments including lines from a hacker called "Magic" - giving rise to the image of Magic In The Matrix. :-) I was recalling this when faced with picking a name and it occured to me that "Static In The Matrix" is similarly attractive and rather less pretentious that "magic". So "static" I became.
Wade.
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My initials in the form of a Star Wars droid [nt] (5.00 / 2) (#450)
by p3d0 on Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 10:26:30 AM EST
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Patrick Doyle
My comments do not reflect the opinions of my employer.
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Or, at least, how it might be spelled if I spoke Gaelic.
"Laissez-faire is a French term commonly interpreted by Conservatives to mean 'lazy fairy,' which is the belief that if governments are lazy enough, the Good Fairy will come down from heaven and do all their work for them."
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in Brazilian portuguese (or "flower kisser" literally).
Incidentally a samba school from Rio was named after it.
It's exotic and festive, I like it.
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I'm an old, bald, dwarven sun cleric (5.00 / 3) (#453)
by Caelum on Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 12:39:56 PM EST
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Back in seventh grade, a friend had let me borrow the first book in Troy Denning's Dark Sun series (the Prism Pentad). I still consider those AD&D fantasy books to be some of the highest quality ever written, characterized, set and imagined. Troy's world was truly unique, not cheesy and teen-centered like that dragonlance stuff. In quality those books are comparable to the Dark Elf trilogy by R.A. Salvatore.
Some of his other books have been unique and moving as well. He is very highly underrated as an author.
Anyway, Caelum was a sun cleric. He accompanied Rikus's army of escaped slaves and his healing power was to call on the sun to burst his palm in flames and to cauterize wounds. At one point he also filled a valley containing an enemy force with lava.
I didn't know until I looked it up that Caelum is actually a Latin word meaning sky, heaven, ceiling etc. Pronounced Kai-loom, the oo being short. This may seem to be highly pretentious for a nick, and I won't deny that. My aspirations have always been, and no matter how many times I fall, will always be...
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roger the shrubber
my name's not roger, though
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Stavro Mueller's Beta / Stavromula Beta.
'Stavro' was taken.
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Pax Americana : Oderint Dum Metuant
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I'm so boring... First name + last initial. Cpatric K.
No, hang on, that's not right. But I'm sure you can work out what I meant.
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who remebers the original c & c ?
well i always played as the GDI in multiplayer against my friend who was always the brotherhood of Nod, thus i was the nodsmasher
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Most people don't realise just how funny cannibalism can actually be.
-Tatarigami
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- Xie xie. (nt) by Ta bu shi da yu, 07/03/2003 01:04:12 AM EST (none / 0)
- Modulation... by synaesthesia, 07/03/2003 06:22:42 AM EST (none / 0)
In a certain Lewis Caroll book, is a poem called "The Walrus and The Carpenter", which some people take to be a reference to religion. The Eldest Oyster was the one who "shook his heavy head, meaning to say that he did not wish to leave his oyster bed", when W&C asked the oysters along for a "walk". As a consequence, he was the only one not consumed.
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TheEldestOyster (rizen/bancus) * PGP Signed/Encrypted mail preferred
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I was a regular contributor to a Tolkien message board. I wanted to use a name that sounded vaguely Elvish. The -ien ending is usually (though not always) feminine, but oh well. I also wanted something that was non-sensical enough that most places wouldn't have it registered already.
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All doctors do is support weak genes. Might as well be communists. -- sigwinch
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I have this problem with electrical devices. My friends/coworkers noticed that evertime someting gets broken or stops working or does erratic things I was either the last person to touch it or it is close to my desk, or I walked by it last week. You get the point I think. Basically now, whenever anything goes haywire they blame me. It's a running joke that I am like a bad luck charm to computers, monitors, routers, calculators, just about anything electronic.
One of them related me to a character in the Otherland book series named Dread who had the uncanny ability to manipulate electronical devices at a distance through some sort of telekinetic power.
So, I am like that guy, but I can't control it and I just end up making krap break when I walk in the room. There's the ed part, I am dread_ed by the computers and such. Like I said, it's kinda dorky.
When the only tool you posess is a claw hammer, everything begins to look like the back of someone's skull.
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Nothing to do with sight or oceans (5.00 / 2) (#465)
by seeS on Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 08:20:50 PM EST
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Craig Small-> C S -> see S -> seeS
Unless I want to be particularly 31337 and then I use 5335
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Where's a policeman when you need one to blame the World Wide Web?
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in my home country I'm a fairly well known model/contemporary artist. tubgirl is the nickname of one of my better known works.
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I told myself I wouldn't reply (5.00 / 3) (#468)
by iso on Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 09:15:55 PM EST
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Is anybody actually reading all these? (Admittedly I read about 50% :). I'll make mine nice and long just to piss of the detractors.
Anyhow, my nickname comes from "isosceles." You know, the triangle. It was back in the BBS days and I needed an original nickname that could also fit in the 9-character restriction of IRC (#ice and #ansi of course).
I'm not sure if I was actually in algebra class at the time, but I was in highschool. Yeah, it's geeky, but before that I was "Crystalline Entitiy" and "Lithium" so this was less geeky than both.
After going as "isosceles" for a while there was a Seinfeld episode where Kramer said he would name his first born "isosceles." I thought this was pretty funny and went as "Isosceles Kramer" for a while after that, using ik- as my initials in the iCE packs as "is" was already taken. That got pretty stupid after a while though, so I went as iso- after iCE let people use three letters in their filename tags. I really did nothing important in iCE except write Ode to Swapspace.
Then I joined slashdot as iso. It sucked so I went to k5, also as iso to maintain consistency (because I was that famous on /.). I really never use this nickname anymore (preferring number nine (my dj name) or just jslaughter (my real name, Jason Slaughter), but it is funny when people think it's a reference to "ISOs" that all the warez kids trade.
Thanks for this thread. It was a grand distraction at work.
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OK, you asked for it... (5.00 / 2) (#469)
by mcgrew on Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 10:07:50 PM EST
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Baby Harry was born in 1871. Some time before he was ten, Harry's parents went on a train journey from their home in Knox County, Indiana to St. Louis, Missouri. The neighbor babysat untiil they were to return.
They never did- the train they were travelling on crashed, and they died.
Their neighbor, Mr. McGrew, raised Harry as his own son. And that is where the name "mcgrew" came from.
I'm not this guy. I'm not this guy. I'm not this guy either.
I've got stuff here, I've got stuff here. I look likethis.
"The entire neocon movement is dedicated to revoking mcgrew's posting priviliges. This is why we went to war with Iraq." -LilDebbie
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I was thinking about using Gilgamesh, but it was too long to type everytime so I chose the shorter nicer three syllable hero name Enkidu. Most of my computers/routers are named after mythical objects. I avoid the greek and roman gods and goddesses as being too common and too, idealized. I stick to Nordic and Sumerian myths. Norse mythology is closer to my own view of the world, and Sumerian myth has a wonderful, primitive, sub-conscious feel to it.
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I got "SkullOne" from the Robotech series I read when I was a kid.
SkullOne being wing leader of the Skull Squadron.
Its stuck for 7 years or so, but I use just "skull" more often now, easier to type.
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I like magic mushrooms.
Also, the ending of my name often makes people assume (mistakenly) that I am female, which is mildly interesting in an anthropological sort of way.
Sausages or cheese?
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- actually by circletimessquare, 07/03/2003 05:32:01 PM EST (none / 0)
- Actually by synaesthesia, 07/04/2003 06:21:17 AM EST (none / 0)
Reference to their album "Four Aces." I used it on eBay first though.
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assembly instruction 00010010110->00100101100 (none / 0) (#479)
by shftleft on Thu Jul 03, 2003 at 11:03:07 AM EST
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ProzacGod, The story.
At first I just used any name I could come up with, I hung out on IRC as Storm for a while, but the association of Storm with the X-Men character quickly got guys trying to pick me up.
I had to get rid of that, so I decided on an acronym "ING" which reflected my success with the ladies in its meaning, "I Need a Girl"
That was all fine and dandy, until one day I met a girl by the name of Ingred on IRC who went by ING, okay .. next!!
I was sitting in the school library trying to come up with a name (this was like 7th grade) One guy there said you should be Prozac. Prozac had just come out (I think, or at least was starting to become popular) so for a week I did that, then .. well, .. everybody was using prozac. (the name, more or less probably the drug too)
So here I am stuck with a name that was so popular that everyone and their grandma was using it (The name or the drug) and I had to think up something else.
I was sitting at hotmail, setting up my account. And I remember from "Hackers" the movie that "God", "Sex", "Love", "secret" were the most common passwords, that and all hackers ran unix on macintosh laptops :P
So I thought of all the obvious ProzacGod ProzacSex, ProzacLove, ProzacSecret. I must admitt that some of these have their own implied meaning, but being the mail that I am ProzacGod mad me feel like I had a bit of ... power, yes I am an Omnipotent God of Anti-Depresants, Okay thats last statement is full of sh** but it sounded good anyway..
So there it is, ProzacGod. It was like so much by many of my friend that a lot of them called me ProzacGod in Real life.
But even though I am a Demi-god I don't have a big head about it. I just smile a lot.
-ProzacGod
- "Prozac can heal the mind but friends may mend the soul."
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I was at a computer camp, probably in the summer of 1996, when I needed to sign up for a Rocketmail account. (Rocketmail, an excellent service, since got acquired by somebody else; I believe it was Yahoo!)
I thought back to my childhood, to the things that excited me, to the things I loved. I remembered science class, and dinosaurs -- I was a dinosaur freak as a kid. (Who wasn't?)
The Mesozoic Era was the period of time when dinosaurs ruled the world; as soon as it popped into my head, I thought, "That has a good ring to it. Four syllables, strange spelling, unique. I'll take it!"
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -- Salvor Hardin, Isaac Asimov's Foundation
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Throu evolution... (5.00 / 1) (#483)
by dJCL on Thu Jul 03, 2003 at 05:44:45 PM EST
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My initials are JCY, that was boring so I worked with the JC which I liked. Well I thought of JC Penny for some reason, but that was a US store, so I converted that using standard conversion rates in 1995 or so and got about $1CDN. We like to call our one dollar coin a "Loony" so I was "JC Loony" for a long time, that was a great nic for a while, then I decided to write some electronica music(it royally sucked, but still I get fan letters from mp3.com users, scares the hell out of me) so I modified it a little to "dJCL". That has stuck for a while now...
The next evolution of my name is already planned, it is more a total change thou. Start with a friend telling me on my birthday that if I had been born in her home country(forget which, I think eastern europe) I would have been given the name "Dita" due to my birthday. Merge that with one of my favourite charachter names from a movie "Tim the Enchanter" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and you get "Dita the Enchanter" or shortened to "DTE" or "dTE" or "DtE"... it will be used in the future... but dJCL works for me for now...
www.mp3.com/djcl/ - tell me how anyone can like that stuff, it is not the best, that is for sure... I barely could stand it myself, I posted as a joke people!!! anyway
Enjoy!
my sig was too long, and getting annoying, so this is all you get. deal with it.
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A was a big Linux zealot back in "the day" (meaning early '97 or thereabouts). The name just sort of came out of nowhere one day as I was jotting down potential nicks (don't remember what my old one was). The origins of the penguin bit is obvious, but the "evil" came from this mental picture I had of Tux holding a railgun (a few years later, Penguin Computing would come out with a "gaming machine", using a picture of Tux with a grenade launcher in the ads).
For the next few years I kept using the name in full, "evilpenguin", give or take whatever Q2 clan I was in at the time (HTO, MUYA, etc...) When I got into the whole nyc2600 thing (both IRC and the actual meetings), I shortened it to "evlpeng", and used that form for a rather long time. The only other variation I use occasionally is "Evil J. Penguin" and it's initials, "ejp".
I've seen others using this name, but I'm the most well-known. this is me, as (was) this and these.
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# nohup cat /dev/dsp > /dev/hda & killall -9 getty
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I was trying to create an account through some online service (I don't remember, hotmail, ebay, something like that) and everything, I mean everything, that I normally use was taken.
I refused to have one of those stupid [UserName]042-style names, so in a flash of angry stream-of-consciousness my fingers typed 'spankmandog'. Three words. The relief of finally having an entry accepted was immense.
I've since found that regardless of where I try to create an account this is never taken, which is nice enough on my aching brain cells
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My first name[nt] (5.00 / 3) (#486)
by gyan on Thu Jul 03, 2003 at 08:32:54 PM EST
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I originally started on irc as xterm, but then some idiot in canada always had it, so i changed it to `xterm , but it got annoying typing the ` , so i changed it to xtermz
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...my parents knew about the Internet in 1953, mikelist is easier than their version, though.
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godmasteroverlord (5.00 / 2) (#490)
by gmol on Fri Jul 04, 2003 at 12:54:28 AM EST
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I remember in the BBS days when I was first trying out aliases...I think I started out with stuff like "alpha1"...I remember lamenting on how cool it must be to have a really cool and original nick.
Then I remembered the name of a japanese transformer that a friend told me about...gmol (can you say it any other way than "gee-maul"?) kind sounded nice, and it is rather uncommon...
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All good things come from alcohol (5.00 / 2) (#491)
by Quila on Fri Jul 04, 2003 at 03:53:12 AM EST
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My wife and I were drinking tequila shots one day, during which we were trying to think of a name for our new mynah bird. Her pet name for tequila when drunk involved dropping the "te" part, and so the bird was named. That bird was psycho.
The next time I had to create some kind of a screen name I used that, and it kept going.
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I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO! (5.00 / 2) (#493)
by GRiNGO on Fri Jul 04, 2003 at 10:26:19 AM EST
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"I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO! IM A GRINGO! I have no bunghole! Bung-holio! I need TP for my bunghole."
http://www.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~lalisimages/cornholi.gif
Once, a few years ago I used that sample from Beavis and Butthead in a trance tune I made with a piece of software called Rave eJay. I walked around the rest of the day muttering the sample and henceforth my mate started calling me gringo and it kinda stuck.
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"I send you to Baghdad a long time. Nobody find you. Do they care, buddy?" - Three Kings
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its my name and i'm a boy.. it was like an awesome slap in the face!
but i have other names is use.. im sort of an internet chameleon... whoa.. that would be a good username. Hmmmm .. maybe its time for a change.
RocketBike does rad wheelies for the freedom of the homeland turf!
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I spent quite awhile deciding on a name for a certain website...
http://www.SaintPort.com
...which was meant to be a web portal designed for saints. Since I spent so much time analysing the name, I sorta bonded with it.
Oddly enough, the username at K5 now means more to me than the site. My K5 entity reflects my 'self' more clearly. Enough navel gazing.
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Start with some cheap grace...Got Life?
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How much Chuq would a wood Chuq Chuq.... (5.00 / 2) (#496)
by Chuq on Sat Jul 05, 2003 at 12:43:25 AM EST
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Well, mine isn't very exciting really.. my name is Charles.. i started being called Chuck or Chuckie around grade 5-6. When I started using BBS's I went by many names including Sigma (no idea why.. nothing to do with the car, though that ended up being my first car several years later!), then when I started on IRC I went by Chuckie (unoriginal, again).
Started getting into playing Quake in mid-1996 and somehow I happened upon the handle 'Chuq' - just like Chuck, except the Quake font had the Quake logo as the 'Q' so it looked cool in the score list... well at the time it did.. and the name stuck!
And I've stuck with it ever since! Its a username that is rarely taken, but when it is, I tend to use chuqau (Chuq from Au). Its also normal sounding enough that people can call me that in real life and it doesn't sound odd .. "Hey there, Ta bu shi da yu, how you going?"
A google for chuq results in my page (chuq.net) coming up as #3. I even beat chuq.com who is a few further down :) There is also a match on that first page, for www.chuq.qc.ca (Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec) :)
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I've been playing role playing games almost all my life. Pholostan was orginally a character in a CRPG, SSIs Death Knights of Krynn played on that trusty old Amiga 500. The name kind of stuck. It's fifteen years ago or something now.
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And blood tears I cry
Endless grief remained inside
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Well, I was trying to come up with a login name somewhere else, and every stupid Sean Connery-oriented name I tried was already in use. Finally, in frustration, I decided to use the first really disturbing user name I could think of. Since then, I usually try it first, just to get a feel for the site's clientelle. Outside of hotmail, AIM and other web pornography sources, nobody else bothers with the user-name, from what I've seen (e.g. I'm also incest on slashdot, where my user id is well over half a million).
I mostly lurk, so I haven't gotten an flak for it.
Let's see what happens.
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No idea. Or some idea, but no clear. (5.00 / 2) (#503)
by WWWWolf on Sun Jul 06, 2003 at 12:40:13 PM EST
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Well, I'm still not entirely sure on how I came up with the name. Some wolves and the web, I'm guessing. =) It was shortly before World Wide Web became such a huge deal and I must have heard the acronym somewhere. And I picked the "wolf" part because I liked wolves, but at the time didn't recognize it as such a huge affection.
Of course, it seems that I've tried to live up to the name anyway.
-- Weyfour WWWWolf, a lupine technomancer from the cold north...
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See one day I wanted to come up with a user name on slashdot. Unlike here you can post at slashdot, or at least you could back then, without setting up any account at all. If you do so your post is accredited to "Anonymous Coward." I suppose this gentle insult is intended to induce users to register or else it's another example of that hacker verbal wit.
Anyway my plan was to pull a fasty and get inobservant readers to maybe misread my registered user name as that default one so I chose "anonymous cowerd," only one little bitty vowel different. But it didn't fool anyone at all since I forgot to capitalize it correctly, making the difference apparent even at a glance; the displayed name was a different shape. mm duh.
Yours WDK - Wkiernan@concentric.net
A drowning man asks for pears from the willow tree.
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My name is Penny Lee (my parents argued over Penelope or Penny Lee and tossed a coin). I'm a red-haired independent woman, but a loving wife. I've been married for 23 years. My husband is very important to me, and I'd go through a lot for/with him.
I've always been interested in the story of Penelope and Ulysses. That got me interested in weaving and spinning. I'm now a full fledged fiber artist.
When I was getting my first email account, my husband said I should use a name that was important to me. I thought, "if I can be named after a Queen, why can't I aspire to be a Goddess?" Arachne is the Greek Goddess of spinning (I know, Diana is also.... blame the Greeks).
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I was just lad and somewhat impressionable. I saw a lot of examples of handles in the credit screens of cracked Apple ][ games my cousin had. So even before the computer was officially mine and before I had my first modem, I decided I should have a handle since getting connected was my ultimate goal.
I don't know why The Alien in particular. It's not quite Two Knives Tan, for example. I had an interest in science fiction and some feelings of isolation, perhaps.
I've kept it ever since. I have two other handles I use, one just to be different and another which was originally for places that didn't allow spaces in usernames.
I was thealien when I got my first official UNIX account. (University...)
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- Oops by The Alien, 07/07/2003 01:06:56 PM EST (none / 0)
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I had put off explaining it for so long, until a friend of mine interviewed me, I didn't have it on paper (so to speak). Hope you enjoy!
The more I watch, the more I learn ---
If you set yourself on fire, the world will pay to watch you burn.
--- Course of Empire
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Read my old posts, the logic behind my nom de plume - nom de guerre? - should be obvious. :-D
A friend of mine, reading a post I had made on another forum, offered up the following as criticism: "You make some good points, but you still sound like a yammering communist." The next day another associate sent me a link to kuro5hin, and the rest is history.
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I fear nothing. I believe nothing. I am free.
--Nikos Kazantzakis, epitaph.
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Mine can be directly attibuted to Mark Abene (aka Phiber Optik) who was a big inspiration around the time I first got my 'net connection.
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optik
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My username is stupid. I came up with it when I was registering for Slashdot. I don't use it anywhere other than there and here. I registered for K5 in 2001 and I wouldn't have used this nickname if I thought at the time that I'd still be posting nowadays.
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jimmysquid.com - I take pictures.
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away I got my first net connection. This was pre-winsock and the net connection was more of a BBS interface to the web (anyone remember mindlink?). Anyway, I logged in a few times to their irc chat client as AJB (my initials) but after a few times of this taken up, and feeling lame going in as 'AJB2' or 'AJB3' I decided to come up with something more unique.
Well, "decided" as in "decided to, and came up with it on the spur of the moment without much forethought or planning".
I was doing a lot of rock climbing at the time, and my harness was made by a local manufacturer called Arctery'x. I could never remember how to spell it, so I just did it like it sounded (at least how I pronounced it), "arcterex". It was unique, and embodied what I liked at the time, without being a direct rip of their name, so I kept it, and even got the arcterex.net domain for my personal stuff. I've never had a problem with duplicate people, or offending anyone, or anything like that, so it's just stuck with me. Kinda sucks for spelling or pronouncing though, most people end up saying "arc... tech" for some reason. Oh well.
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Because the Anonymous Coward/Hero is dead, cruelly struck down by uninspired trolls. So now, in order to post something on this forum, one has to grudgingly give up (i.e., relinquish) their anonymity and register an account.
Incidentally, "Relinquished" also happens to be the name of an insidious monster in the trading card game "Yu-Gi-Oh!" (No, I am not a fan of that particular anime, though I do have an avid interest in card games.)
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If you rearrange the letters in "anagram for signature" you get "famous at rearranging".
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My last name is Hawkes and I wear black clothing a lot, so BlackHawk was a pretty natural handle to take. I also sometimes use WhiteNoise for security related tasks and have toyed with Farenheit451 for the obvious reasons, but have generally stuck with BlackHawk for the last decade or so. I used to be ACE back on the old arcade machines that only allowed 3 letters :-)
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Back when I was in high school (around 15 years old) people went through this fad of using the cheesy old line from the old Batman (adam west) show. SO if we were going to MAths it would be 'Quick to the maths mobile'. Don't know if you all know but cacking yourself is defacating. FOr some reason it means funny as well.
One day I made a terrible joke and someone said 'Quick to the cackmobile' and it sort of stuck!!
I like it cause its totally unique.
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... and I got totally fed up with all the chatter over the net about it - it got EVERYWHERE, including all the technical forums I read.
I'm not really turned off by Politics, although, the older I get, the less important it all seems.
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"Every contract has a sanity clause", "Sanity clause! Sanity clause! You can't fool me, there's no such thing as Sanity Claus"
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They're just Initials (5.00 / 1) (#519)
by rgwk on Tue Sep 02, 2003 at 12:22:27 AM EST
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rgwk, its just my initials. I won't bother you with the details.
Its one damned thing before another! Dick Bird 1999
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