It’s a chess term describing a “feel” for the board in certain positions. It comes with experience. It describes a sense of knowing what to do, even if you don’t see why quite yet. Josh Waitzkin, specifically, says something like “If you’re an experienced player, your chessic sense will tell you that …” I used to be IntelSoldier, because I was an Intel Soldier. Had to change it, as I can’t broadcast that fact to the world anymore.
Well, my RL name is Eleanor. Rigby has been a nickname on and off throughout my life.
I like Beatle songs and John Lennon.
I’m also lonely and keep my face in a jar by the door, but that’s TMI.
I am not dead.
I have never met the Father MacKenzie here.
cmyk wins the thread for the best explanation. I bet he’s (she’s?) a photographer.
I was drunk, standing on my cooler that was in the middle of my raft holding up a boom box and dancing as our company floated down a river (small company, fun parties).
The owner proclaimed me “Sabu, King of the Raft People”.
I’m 6’9" and Big Dave (one of several RL nicknames) was taken. Plus it’s a play on Great Dane.
My preferred name on the rest of the internet is Silvercat. I have a whole image of myself in that, which is a white and blue anthro tiger. Thundercats is my one true fandom, thus the mispelling. And I’m a girl, even though writing analysis thingies often decide I’m male. So, Silver Tyger Girl.
Close! When I registered on this board, I was a graphic designer at a Litho company. Now I’m a CG artist… so I should change my name to rgb.
And Eleanor Rigby is one of my fave Beatle’s songs. I’ll bet it’s a lot of people’s fave Beatle’s songs.
(and I’m a he.)
So shouldn’t it be timbecile59? Just wondering…
My user name, as I am always happy to point out, comes from one of my favorite movies (which was on TCM only a couple of nights ago). Sir Roderick Femm is the patriarch of the Femm (you have to pronounce both m’s) family in The Old Dark House (1932 version). In his younger days he was apparently a godless sinner; now he is still godless but has no energy for any active sins. He is supposed to be 102 years old (I am not quite that old myself). And he is played by a woman. That fact has an additional resonance for little old queer me.
Roddy
A combination of initials and extraordinarily high self-esteem.
Caz is a common nickname for Carol.
L is my middle initial.
Caz L. … Cazzle.
Well, hi, he. I was going to guess graphic designer, too, but I was too lazy to edit again. CG artist is just GD on steroids, no?
You couuuld say that. It’s like graphic design, just completely different. (I’m mainly into animation and visual effects now).
(and, hi!)
Hey–they both have the word “graphic” in them. I rest my case.
Bumbershoot is a tune by my favorite group, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Plus, a bumbershoot is sort of like a parachute, and I used to do a lot of skydiving. It made sense at the time, and the 'Tones don’t have a song called Parachute or Skydiver!
I’m not really sure I like it, though. I’ve thought about changing it, but haven’t come up with one I like better.
Mine is an invented Russian diminutive form of my real first name, Henrik.
My late great dog was the World’s Only Icelandic Fetchund. Truly a rare breed…
I try to emulate her attitude.
I do not have an interesting story behind my username. It is purely descriptive.
I lost my religion, a la R.E.M., but retained a teensy bit of faith. However, I’m definitely a fool for doing so.
I think I’d like to change it, so that I could have a monolithic presense across the internet, but don’t know if I ought to. Hmmmm, what say y’all?
My real name is Deborah and Dubs was my dad’s nickname for me when I was a kid.
My internet handle for about 7 or 8 years was Cat ^…^, but when I got here and started lurking, there were about a zillion “Cat” people, including one who used the same symbol.
So lacking any originality, I figured if I wasn’t going to be a cat, I should be a dog, so I just picked the first dog name that came to mind, which is my sister’s dog, Shayna.
Pretty easy, my middle name is Lea, my maiden named is a homonym of the sound a frog makes.