# Where is kayaker? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488 "2025-03-12T19:11:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/41 "2025-05-13T19:28:20Z")
> [@solost](#): > > What does your username mean? And I have always wondered what instrument you play (I know I’m not the only one). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/42 "2025-05-13T19:39:08Z")
You’re also far from the first, and likely not the last, to read my username as ‘soloist’. It’s ‘solost’ without the ‘i’. In April 2010 I joined after lurking for awhile, to participate in the discussion of the final season of the show ‘Lost’. Not being great at coming up with creative usernames, I chose ‘solost’, since the final season had me ‘so lost’. Yes, lame. And, you don’t want to hear me soloing-- either vocally or on any musical instrument 😏 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/43 "2025-05-13T19:41:12Z")
I think your username is fantastic! Tons better than “wguy123” 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/44 "2025-05-13T19:44:39Z")
At least your username probably doesn’t get misread all the time. It’s ambiguous enough to be intruiging. What _does_ it mean, anyway? I assume you’re a guy who likes something that starts with ‘w’, or there’s a ‘W’ in your name, and the 123 was filler to get the name to take. Am I on the right track? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/45 "2025-05-13T19:53:47Z")
wise guy? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/46 "2025-05-13T19:55:08Z")
It was back when I was “wiseguy” on several forums (remember when you had to go to topic specific forums) and this was one I was interested in, but it wasn’t topic specific and I wasn’t sure I’d ever post. I think there were already wiseguys here and I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about it because I didn’t think I would spend much time here. Now, I’m mostly here and not much on the other topic specific forums. Should’ve spent more time on my username…“smartass” is taken but it looks like wisenheimer is still available. 😉 > [@CairoCarol](#): > > wise guy? Nailed it! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/47 "2025-05-13T19:57:36Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about it because I didn’t think I would spend much time here. Yep, just like me, not thinking past participating in a ‘Lost’ discussion thread. 15 years and counting later… > [@wguy123](#): > > > [@CairoCarol](#): > > > > wise guy? > > Nailed it! CairoCarol for the win! ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/48 "2025-05-13T20:05:33Z")
> [@solost](#): > > 15 years and counting later… 18 for me. And, I don’t think I posted until 13 years ago. I was a lurker for 5 years. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/49 "2025-05-13T20:46:22Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I was a lurker for 5 years. I didn’t even lurk. I decided to sign up one day, and discovered that I had already done so five or six years earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/50 "2025-05-13T20:47:52Z")
I’m sad to think I will never again see @kayaker type the words, “sous vide”. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/51 "2025-05-13T20:54:39Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I think there were already wiseguys here and I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about it because I didn’t think I would spend much time here. Don’t worry, you’re avatar is outstanding enough that I always know “that’s the guy with the numbers aka Bob Dylan in 1966 on his Triumph”, so you’re definitely recognizable. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/52 "2025-05-13T21:15:35Z")
Glad you recognize it. Someday I’ll be that cool… NOT! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/53 "2025-05-13T21:25:52Z")
Get yourself a Triumph! Ore even cooler, a [1952 Vincent Black Lightning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0kJdrfzjAg&ab_channel=LaurieGirling). ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/54 "2025-05-13T21:28:46Z")
I thought we got pretty good reason for optimism [**upthread**](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/26), no? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/55 "2025-05-13T21:42:27Z")
We did. But he’s still not around. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/56 "2025-05-14T12:28:11Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Don’t worry, you’re avatar is outstanding enough that I always know “that’s the guy with the numbers aka Bob Dylan in 1966 on his Triumph”, so you’re definitely recognizable. 😉 High praise coming from the Doper with one of, if not the best, avatar / username combos on the SDMB 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488/57 "2025-05-14T13:00:00Z")
Thanks for the compliment! But I can’t take much credit for it, I was just lucky to find this picture googling “Einstein’s dog” after I had lost my old avatar pic 7 or 8 years ago, which was a real small white dog that looked a bit like Einstein. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kayaker/1015488.md?page=2)