1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
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First initial, last name.
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2) Do you use it everywhere?
Almost everywhere.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
In some places, I’m “Spos” which is a nickname (contraction of my last name). On Fark, I go by “FriendlyFungus” which was my hacker handle back in the early 80s.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Yes.
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4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?**
Not really. If I do have a problem with my username, it’s because people think it’s some sort of play on “thespian” or something like that. And I can’t act worth a damn.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
I did my graduate work in physical anthropology, focusing mainly on skeletal studies and forensic anthropology. Yorick = skull.
**2) Do you use it everywhere? **
Nah
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
This is about it, really.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Not so far
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
When I’ve said something particularly stupid here, I hear “Alas, PoorYorick!” a lot.
It’s a champagne I enjoy. And it sounds vaguely feminine.
Pretty much, yep.
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It gets funny pronunciations - “Viewve” and “Voovay” - the latter is my favorite - lol - makes me sound like a hatcheck girl in a 1930s movie. The actual pronunciation is closest to “verve”.
I used to chat in various places as “soapie” because I used to be a major soap opera fan.
jayjay can be. I’ve had my gender mistaken on her a couple of times, but that may just have been folks confusing me with jarbabyj. jayjaybear gets confused less often.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
Well, “spatial rift” itself is fairly straightforward, if obscure. See, right now we have relativity describing the large scale effects of gravity as a result of spacetime curvature, and we have quantum mechanics describing the other three fundamental forces on the quantum scale. What we lack is a description of how gravity functions on a quantum scale. I believe we lack this because we don’t really know what spacetime is or how it does its thing. Hence my career interest in the physics of spacetime. Furthermore, I believe that if we can learn to harness and manipulate spacetime the applications could be astounding. The term “spatial rift” itself is a nod to the spacetime oddities that show up in Star Trek and other science fiction. Finally, the 47 is because the number 47 is everywhere, at least in Star Trek. The explanation for that can be found here.
Do you use it everywhere?
For the most part.
If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
I have one alias with a slightly humorous backstory: JuxtapositionLad. I used to be a section editor of my school’s student-run newspaper, and one of my colleagues disliked what he saw as my overuse of the word “juxtaposition.” He remarked, “Can’t you find another way to say juxtaposition, boy?” Another colleague didn’t hear the comma in that, and responded, “Juxtaposition lad?”
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Um, I suppose people might tend to associate it with a male user … so it’s not confusing, no.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Nope.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
Devilsknew is a play on the song titled Devil’s New by Sparklehorse. I am a pretty big fan of the band Sparklehorse and enjoy this stark, weird, and haunting song.
It truly arose from a crazy stream of consciousness conversation with the good friend who turned me on to Sparklehorse. We were listening to the song and wondering about the origins and meaning of Devil’s New, or at least what Mark Linkous might have meant when he wrote it. We mused that it could have three different meanings/spellings with the same pronunciation Devil’s new, Devils knew, and Devil’s Gnu (I’m sure there is a word for this kind of phonetic thing but it eludes me at the moment.). I took the conversation off on some tangent and came up with some ideas for a novel or story based on Devil’s New and riffed on that for a while. I never wrote it, promptly forgot about it.
Signed up for the dope and I remembered the earlier conversation and thought it would be a good screenname. It is also threefold- properly ironic and within SDMB boardname tradition, an allusion to one of my favorite bands, and a secret nod to my friend.
Also when I listen to the song and Mark Linkous poses the question, “Are you Devil’s New?” I can answer yes.
**2) Do you use it everywhere? **
No 3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
Well, I have two other screennames/aliases but would rather not drop my own names. 4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
I imagine it could be, but I believe from the nature of most of my posts it is apparent that I am Male. 4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Not with gender confusion, but the irony of the name is not lost on me when I post to topics of a religous nature.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
My favorite Elvis Costello album. The phrase also has some layers of meaning that seem to suit me.
2) Do you use it everywhere?
No.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
This is the only place I use an alias. My real first name would be my choice, but it was taken.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Apparently so.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment? shrug Not really. I do correct it, though.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
The first two letters of my first name. I’ve corrupted the phonetic alphabet somewhat, but I really didn’t want to be known as Sierra India, so I chose Indigo.
**2) Do you use it everywhere? **
Nope. I’ve used it in a couple of places, but this is the only MB I’ve used it on.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online? Keidha is usually my moniker of choice. I’ve had a range of different UNs and email addresses across the course of my time online, but eventually settled down to choosing Keidha when I got sick of taking twenty minutes trying different spellings or adding numbers to the UNs I wanted. Keidha doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a vaguely celtic-spelt name, and it seems to be pretty unique, I’ve never come across anyone else using it at all.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
I really couldn’t say. I don’t think either of them are, but I had someone in an online game (when I was playing as Keidha) accuse me of being a man.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
See above. Bonus funny because I was talking to hubby (then boyfriend) and he was using the name “Marcus” and the guy who had a go at me then went off on a huge rant about homosexuals and being sick and wrong.
What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here? Not much of one. My standard username was taken (!!!) and since I registered as “continuityerror” on another site and I was feeling unoriginal I used that here. I’m not sure why I misspelled it, I thought it would be cute, because it’s a spelling error so calling it otherwise is discontinuous… it probably just pisses off a lot of the persnickety spellers though.
Do you use it everywhere? No, just here. I am still pretty pissed that I can’t use my real username, since this has grown to be my primary message board and I’d like to use my primary Intername. Actually it’s highly likely that I registered my “regular” name myself and forgot about it; it’s just such an uncommon username that someone would have to be consciously stealing it from me.
If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online? davenportavenger (most places), themachinestops (Livejournal), curmudgeon2k5 (an online chatplace where I registered a year ago, left the site, forgot my password, then had to reregister with a different name), continuityerror (a Blurty–Livejournal clone–that I only use to talk about books and have not used in awhile).
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing? Yeah, I’ve been he’d a few times on this board. All my others are gender neutral as well.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment? Nah. If it’s important I correct it, if not I don’t.
Before being a member of this site, I was a member of a Hawaiian political message board. William Quinn was the last appointed/first elected Governor of Hawaii.
A friend of mine that I worked with commented when I was having a bad day, I was extra prickly. I signed up for the SDMB when I was working with her, so it seemed an appropriate name. I do use it other places, but not everywhere.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
RFG (my real name is Robert F. Golaszewski) + DXM (an acronym for the drug dextromethorphan.) I happen to run to websites about the effects and dangers of DXM used a psychedelic drug.
A side advantage is that on Internet searches (such as Google Groups) “rfgdxm” isn’t used by anyone other than me. Nor would anyone else be accident likely choose the same handle. 2) Do you use it everywhere?
Widely on the Internet. 3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
No. 4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Possibly. Although a very quick Google search would reveal I am a he. 4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Rarely. Usually this happens if I post on a non-drug forum and some anti-drug nut finds my websites. Although, I’ve had one mother e-mail me thanking me for my websites after her daugher ODed on Coricidin, and recently found a memorial website put up by the parents of a teenager who died from DXM abuse linking to my site to explain what DXM was.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
I’d been lurking for awhile and finally saw a thread I just HAD to post to. So I clicked the sign-up link & it asked me to supply a username. What the heck is that & how am I supposed to choose one??? The only other boards I’d ever used were from work, where my username was predefined for me as either my assigned logon or my real name. And for e-commerce it’s generally my email address which I didnt’t want to use. What to do… What to do …
I was impatient, thought about it for about 10 seconds & setttled on LSLGuy. LSL is the initials of the town I now live in, and Guy means, well guy. Not a real exciting story.
2) Do you use it everywhere?
Nope. this is it.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
None. The Dope is plenty enough good at time-wasting for me. If I developed a 2nd habit like this one I’d have to either quit work or quit sleeping.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
I hope not.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Not that I’ve ever noticed.
**1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here? **
It was a nickname given to me by a good buddy from boot camp, who said “You’re always popping your clutch” when I asked him why he kept calling me wheelie. It’s not because i fix motorcycles for a living, really!
**2) Do you use it everywhere? **
Only here.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
Nothing interesting.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
I don’t know, do you find it confusing?
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
I don’t see how it could do either.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
I’m a whitewater kayaker and I was reading something on a paddling message board about somebody asking a small town Appalachian sheriff how he felt about the kayakers that decended on his town when the water was up. His reply was something along the lines of “Ah…They’s jus’ river hippies.”
It struck me as funny for some reason and I thought of it when I was trying to think of a name when I registered here. I’m a hippie at heart but don’t actually look much like one at the moment.
2) Do you use it everywhere?
Just here.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
No comment
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Doubtful, I think most people would guess male.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
