I really like synthesizers, and a VCO is a voltage-controlled oscillator (what makes the sound). A basic synthesizer has at least 3 VCO’s, and the third one is usually used for control/modulation of one or both of the other ones.
it was the first thing to pop into my head when i had to fill in the box. seriously.
I am a papaw and proud of it, but the online moniker came from my AOHell days. Some nieces had trouble with my real name, Noel, because it sounded like NO! they called me PapaO. That was my name on AOL, and still is on Yahoo.
I have been using Papaw on forums for several years now and am used to it. I also use Papawswrench since I am a tool collector,
Way back, a long, long time ago, my band mate and I were searching for a new band name as our previous band had broken up and we were starting a new project. We tried on a number of things but nothing really clicked. We both (two rock and roll chicks) had a penchant for wearing velvet and so we played around with names containing the word velvet until I thought up Velvet Jones.
We decided, after much deliberation, that would be our new band name…Velvet Jones.
About a month later we told the name to a mutual friend and he replied …“Oh, you mean like the SNL character played by Eddie Murphy?”
This was me :smack: :smack: :smack:
I’d never seen that character on SNL. Here I thought I’d come up with a clever name. :rolleyes:
Still we kept the name for the duration of that band and I started using it on various message boards and that brings us to now. velvetjones the woman who’s never actually seen Eddie Murphy’s Velvet Jones.
My co workers would refer to me as the blond one , or would ask if I were a natural blond because it would explain a lot. I am not sure why they did this, I guess they just all thought I was having more fun than anyone else.
My name comes from a character in an anime (Japanese cartoon for those who don’t know) called Excel Saga. In the show, Il Palazzo is the leader of a secret organization that is trying to conquer the world, only to be constantly thwarted by the incompetence of his subordinate, Excel. The show (and comic on which it’s based) often show Il Palazzo doing things not usually associated with an evil overlord: ordering pizza, teaching himself the guitar, playing video games, etc.
I took the name because I like the image of a guy bent on global domination who still spend most of his time doing ordinary things. I also tend to agree with Il Palazzo’s frequent declarations that “The world is corrupt” and his ambition to change the world for the better (though I’m slightly less likely to achieve this goal through conquest.)
Fachverwirrt means, literally, “confused about a compartment”. “Fach” also refers to voice types (lyric tenor, dramatic soprano, etc.)–that is, singers are compartmentalized (or pigeon-holed) into roles based on their vocal weight, quality, and range. For most of my singing life I wandered back and forth between baritone (lyric and spinto) and tenor (spinto and dramatic). When I got an LJ account I was in the middle of one of those periods, so I went with it. That confusion is pretty much settled now, but the name’s stuck, and I kind of like it.
And here I thought your real last name was Wunder.
I am a secretary who works with a group of mainly guys. We are always joking around, and when they say, “Realname, could you do (whatever it is they want me to do)” I say, “That’s Missy to you.” If I am googled, I am not Missy2u (small u) - she posts some strange religious stuff. I am also not the Missy2U who hangs out in game forums, or on boat bbs. I AM the Missy2U that hangs out at food related sites. And here.
Aren’t you going to explain how you came up with your name? Inquiring minds have just gotta know.
I saw this thread last week or whenever but didn’t have a chance to answer it.
My original name was Elenia, which I got from the David Eddings series The Elenium Throne. I no longer like Eddings as much (though I do still love the knight Sparrowhawk from that series) but Elenia is still my handle in a lot of other places.
I wanted to come up with something for the Dope. I didn’t care if it was witty or clever one bit, just something I came up with by myself. I decided on Anaamika, which in Hindi means “the girl with no name”, or colloquially, “anonymous”. Good for a message board, I thought, and with the added benefits of a) never being mistaken for a guy, ever, b) having some great nicknames (meeks, mika) and c) even reflecting my heritage a little.
You know, for some reason, I had this impression of a couple, Anna and Mike, and that one of them was the doper “Anaamika”.
Congratulations - as far as I know you’re the only one who ever came up with that intrepretation. 
Mine is my initials.
Thadeus Delfayo Nahasa…pasa…Moe, just Moe.
Actually, it’s Bread. 
I can’t tell you the joke if I don’t remember it.
If it’s any consolation, my second choice was “The Hostile Amishman”. I was working for DoD at the time, and the Amish are pacifists.
Yes, my name is from “A Wrinkle In Time.” She was the hard to describe character that took care of Meg. She was big, scary and sweet. I was beginning to think it was prophetic as it seemed I was destined to be an Aunt, but never a Mom. In my defense, some folks think I’m scary, but most folks think I’m nice. I like to keep the ratio around 49%/51%. It was accidental actually, I was supposed to be TheHappyMedium, but I screwed up a registration somewhere, once upon a time and became Auntbeast.
I have another name I use a lot that is a lot more unique. SaintMaya. I majored in cultural anthropology and studied Mayan writing. In the IRC days I was just “Maya.” But after being an IRCop for a while and having to constantly help folks, I kept being told “Thanks Maya! You are a saint!” I changed my name to SaintMaya as a joke, but it took.
FWIW, I am the Auntbeast from Anarchy Online. And there is a song about me online. “I Like Big Buffs.” There’s a lot of us though.
Although this is valuable information and worth a small fortune in any number of lesser South American countries, I was actually asking Shirley Ujest.*
- So he could respond to my absurd question with “Surely, you jest.”
Don’t call me Shirley.