I’ve used my username on Usenet a few times prior to coming here, but not much. Way back when, I’ve used haile esoteric and m. pythonite.
What seems really weird to me now is when I use brachyrhynchos in my everyday work. I might be preparing a talk and have to say the line “Death rates from West Nile virus were calculated by the CDC for the American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) to be higher than 95%.” I have to stifle a giggle because I think of this place. See what a bad influence you all are?
<<contemplating next talk with much consternation>> :eek:
Yes. I use “Tymp” whenever possible. What’s great about my real name is that, when spoken, it sounds just like “Tymp”, provided one is pronouncing “Tymp” properly (tricky, huh?). I try to avoid using the proper spelling of my real name unless it’s absolutely necessary.
I have been using “Hamadryad” as my handle/alias/nick/screen name since 1984. I have friends who call me “Hama” IRL. I am “Hamadryad” everywhere online, except for the places in which it has already been taken, in which I am “I Hamadryad” (or some variation thereon)…which is also a nice mini-Asimov tribute. Or so I like to think.
I have been using Maeglin for years, for just about everything. But when some asshole has already taken Maeglin (which doesn’t happen too often) I am usually Ramarren.
But I’ve been NeoCount on Quake1, 2, and 3 for a few years now.
I always figured you swiped the name from Thundercats. True? I didn’t know TC went all the way back to the early 80s…I thought it was more like an 85 thing.
I’ve been “Glenn Five” for over a decade now, since I was a dj at my college radio station. It’s from my middle initial, which is V. Glenn Five was my on-air name at the station and later was my stage name during my brief stand-up career.
Also, Glenn Five was my preferred handle during the golden age of the late, great Compuserve Comics Forum (I’m pretty sure cmkeller used to hang out there too), and more recently over at the Snopes Message Board.
When I came here I just shortened it to Five. I dunno, just seemed more streamlined and economical.
The first time I used the name “slythe” over a modem was in 1982. I was a housekeeper for a couple that worked for Boeing in Seattle. On weekends they would have to bring home this modem that barely fit into a large suitcase, and hook it up to their phone.
What Boing(and probably quite a few other large companies) didn’t know was that a good-sized portion of their computer system had been secretly partitioned off so that the employees could play games with the modem and communicate with each other. No-one dared use their own names, of course, and thus “slythe” was born.
Yep! Well, you knew what it was, but not what it stood for… ok, instead of a Rhode Island sized cookie, you get 3 cubic yards of fudge. If you’re not home I’ll have it left on your front porch.
Dial-up Wide Area Network Gaming Organization In slime space, no one can hear you scream.
Most places I go by Kei or .Kei. That’s just my name with both Rs taken out (Kerri.) It’s pronounced like the letter K, and EVERYONE calls me by that IRL.
In the last year or so, I’ve been Gravity whenever I can. When I can’t (Thanks to those scientists naming that silly law after me ) I go by Gravith.
I use psiekier here, on AOL, and a few other places only because it is one of the standard conventions for Unix usernames: your first initial followed by up to seven letters of your last name.
Of course, what has proven to be problematic is the pronunciation of “psiekier.”
I had one co-worker who thought it was a reference to the psychic police force in Babylon 5 (“Psi-corps?” I don’t watch that show).
I also had a neice of a friend who uses AOL tell her uncle that she got an Instant Message from “pee-seeker” while she was logged on as him.
I have used “The Peyote Coyote” for years as a sobriquet on the radio show “Ether Game” that WFIU-FM (103.7 in Bloomington, Indiana) airs every Tuesday night, 8-10 p.m.
) I go by Gravith.