How did you decide on your user name?

johngpt · Jul 30, 2008

Zelichan said:
My drunken friend's drunken sister started calling me: "Zelix from another planet." Then it was shortened it to "Zelix" as the drunkeness progressed. All the pals picked it up..so it's history.

... until....

My wifey called me Zelichan.

Explanation: translation roughly in Japanese as when talking to someone you use ~san for formal and ~chan for informal refering to someone. ( don't quote me as I'm as horrible with Japanese as I am with English )..

.... that's it.

Our soke in Japan would call my sensei Abi-chan, and if he knew we were from her dojo, he'd smile and say, "Ah, Abi-chan dojo, neh?"

LWW · Jul 30, 2008

Mitica100 said:
Mine is the nickname for Dimitri (in Romanian) and I added 100 to it.

I always assumed it was a reference to an obscure camera maker in the distant past.

LWW

johngpt · Jul 30, 2008

Resin42 said:
I've pretty much been going under Resin42 since i got online and wanted to find a completely unique username. Resin is the first name of the first band I was ever in. We had to ditch it on the night of our first gig because we found out an hour before that another band called Resin had played the same venue two nights before. We went onstage with no name, no matter cos we royally sucked. Lesson learned, do your research.

42 is of course the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything.

Good ol' Douglas Adams. Too bad he never got to see the movie version. I think he might'a liked it.

LWW · Jul 30, 2008

Mine came from the 3 initials of the names my momma gave me.

LWW

Crazydad · Jul 30, 2008

Kids gave me mine (obviously). Most nicknames would not be appropriate....

Overread · Jul 30, 2008

johngpt said:
Good ol' Douglas Adams. Too bad he never got to see the movie version. I think he might'a liked it.

true - they even went as far as to use a special script he wrote for the film version - hence its differings from the book version.

As for me - well my early webname was Overmind - mostly as back then I was only on warhammer and gaming forums - so I took the name of the Great Devourers of Starcraft - the overmind!
After that there were some overmind2000s when another (hiss) got the name before me.

then I joined a bookreading forum and needed a name - overmind did not really fit in so I kept one part and added another - Overread!
I got to like that name so decied to keep it as my full webname!

(its also not as popular a name as overmind)!

johngpt · Jul 30, 2008

Overread said:
true - they even went as far as to use a special script he wrote for the film version - hence its differings from the book version.

As for me - well my early webname was Overmind - mostly as back then I was only on warhammer and gaming forums - so I took the name of the Great Devourers of Starcraft - the overmind!
After that there were some overmind2000s when another (hiss) got the name before me.

then I joined a bookreading forum and needed a name - overmind did not really fit in so I kept one part and added another - Overread!
I got to like that name so decied to keep it as my full webname! (its also not as popular a name as overmind)!

I like that Overread. Sounds like overdrive, but for reading. A graduate of the Evelyn Woods Reading Dynamics on steroids! :mrgreen:

Tyjax · Jul 30, 2008

In the days when DarpaNet was young and exclusive. Those whose minds were twisted and bent by exposure to microwaves or alien influence turned to using acoustic couplers and 300bps transfer rates to find junction points in the nascent hive mind that would become the internet. These seamy, seedy, and dangerous places of gathering were known as BBS. They sometimes allowed as many as 20 people to connect at the same time. Later they would be the first to allow gopher, smtp, and usenet connections.
In this dark underworld I was born, a name was sought that would hide my identiy for my deeds were dark. Being a devotee of the Playfair-Wheatstone cypher I grabbed for a Cypher key from the depths of my mind. ty, and extraction of my surname, ja, an extraction of my given name. Every Playfair cypher must have its null character, its parity bit. My parity has allways been off. Ergo X.

Ty Ja X = bonus points if you can create the playfair wheatstone grid from that.

Puscas · Jul 30, 2008

Somehow somebody misspelled my name. It's Pascal and if you can turn that into Puscas, that's enough for me to make it my nickname.

Garbz, how about this for a camera-name: [(o)]

or the point and shoot: [o*]

:lol:

pascal

reg · Jul 30, 2008

Tyjax said:
In the days when DarpaNet was young and exclusive. Those whose minds were twisted and bent by exposure to microwaves or alien influence turned to using acoustic couplers and 300bps transfer rates to find junction points in the nascent hive mind that would become the internet. These seamy, seedy, and dangerous places of gathering were known as BBS. They sometimes allowed as many as 20 people to connect at the same time. Later they would be the first to allow gopher, smtp, and usenet connections.
In this dark underworld I was born, a name was sought that would hide my identiy for my deeds were dark. Being a devotee of the Playfair-Wheatstone cypher I grabbed for a Cypher key from the depths of my mind. ty, and extraction of my surname, ja, an extraction of my given name. Every Playfair cypher must have its null character, its parity bit. My parity has allways been off. Ergo X.

Ty Ja X = bonus points if you can create the playfair wheatstone grid from that.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

Okay then...

johngpt · Jul 30, 2008

Puscas, I thought [o*] was the rangefinder! :lol:

Puscas · Jul 31, 2008

johngpt said:
Puscas, I thought [o*] was the rangefinder!

:thumbup: fine by me.

pascal

Mr.Bluesky · Jul 31, 2008

Mr. Bluesky is just a good song, listen to it.

Tn Gizmo · Jul 31, 2008

One late night I was searching on the computer and ended up on a forum. I needed a user name to register after giving it about a half second thought I looked down at my feet and there was Gizmo our little peek-a-poo. So I borrowed his name (he didn't seem to mind) I have used that user name on several forums but it seems as all of the photography sites already have a Gizmo so I put Tn in front for Tennessee. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Oh by the way, I'm new and howdy y'all.
Richard