A question about everybody's screen names or whatever you want to call them
POSTED BY: ebonezer
UPDATED: Saturday, June 26, 2004 08:01
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Lets see. Caldeen Sumal is a character I made up for Battlelords of the 23rd Century. A RPG that few play, atleast few that I can find. Later he became my rogue on EverQuest. Feel free to look me up on the Veeshan server.
I am not worried about the bullet with my name on it. Just the thousands marked "Occupant".
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marv comes from marvin the paranoid android from H2G2 (here i am with a brain the size of a planet and i'm opening doors) and the 335 is the last three numbers of my service number (i'm serving in the UK air force)
i must not fear, fear is the mind killer.
i must face my fear.
i must allow it to pass through me and over me.
when it is gone, only i will remain
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I think I explained in my first post, but here goes.
I almost never use handles...at least not since pre-internet bulletin boards. I occasionally use truthquest9 and I use one *docg* when I play on game webs. It stands for Dr. Geri...I'm geri > Hi!! I almost always use my name on the web because I really only log on to boards that have to do with my work or "serious" hobbies.
That is, until Firefly.
I spin yarn -- you know, with a spinning wheel or drop spindle or charkha. I first fell for Firefly at a spinning retreat. I brought the hubby's DVDs but had only seen a little of a cpl of eps, so I knew I could be hooked, but hadn't gotten hooked yet. A few of us became Browncoats that weekend. Anyway, that's why I chose spinner.
In my work I do a lot of theory of change, logic model and framework design for my clients. My professional tagline is: Innovation & Insight.
So that's how I came up with Insight Spinner. Which is actually a great way to describe what I do for work. Actually, I'm kinda diggin' Inspin as a nickname.
geri
insight spinner
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Just an object. It doesn't mean what you think....
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Originally posted by SamuraiX47:
I've been SamuraiX47 since 1995.
...in my fraternity chapter, we believe that the number 47 is the most common re-occuring random 2-digit number. Whether you want to buy into it or not, I have to tell you that I see it every day.
In Alias, Syd was involved in Project 47. I could go on and on.
That's quite a geeky frat you got there... and I'm glad you mention Alias, which actually has (according to JJ Abrams) the number 47 somewhere in every single episode!
The idea of reoccurring numbers you mention was best shown in the Illuminatus! Books by Shea and Wilson, with the number 23 - The formula goes "anything can be related to the number 23 *depending on the ingenuity of the observer*... for example, 47 is 23 plus 23 plus 23/23...
(Of course both 23 and 47 are both prime. Which is intrinsically cool.)
The deeper question is of course whether you just notice the 47s (or 23s or whatever) more because you're primed (forgive the pun) to do so or whether these numbers are more common... or whether by looking you *make* the numbers appear in a kind of magical-chaos-quantum kinda deal...
(I'd better stop now before I start spouting Kaballah!)
"You are what you do."
Andrew Vacchs
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First off, howdy all. I am a new poster here. Been lurking for a while, but decided to join in after all. Let me first tell you about my orginal username which was Alicardi. It was 7 years ago and my first foray into the world of forums and live chat and this is the name I chose. However, after many countless private messages from men asking me if I was hot, because they thought the Ali portion of my username made me a female, I began to reconsider it. The nail in the coffin for me (no pun intended. You'll see) was when I was regularted hasseled by this young woman (let's call her GothChick) who kept telling me that I was spelling it wrong.
Spelling it wrong? Spelling what wrong I wondered. "You're trying to spell I Dracula bacwards, but you've spelled it wrong."
Ah.......I didn't realize she was crazy, so I corrected her by letting her know that Alicardi is actually my last name....spelled correctly no less. Her rantings did not cease and she leveraged some of her fellow goth resources so that I was now regulalry being harrased throughout the internet.
Change names....and go.
My first real forum that I joined was the old Tomarts board that is long since defunct. It was 1998 and I was highly anticipating the release of the new Star Wars prequal (hey, hind sight is 50/50 okay?) I wanted to choose a name that suited both my personality and had something to do with Star Wars. In Episode IV, A New Hope, Princess Leia calls Han Solo a Scruffy looking Nerfherder, so I chose NerfHerder. Registration process almost complete and Oops!, A Nerferherder already existed. Damn, my luck! This made me thnk more about Leia's names that she called Han over the years. In Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back, Leia refers to Han as a Scoundrel and so off I went to be Scoundrel, but Oops! number 2. Hmm....I bet no one has taken "Scruffy Scoundrel", which being unshaven at the time I was, and I was correct. I can still be found by that name over at http://www.galactichunter.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=TOR
In late 2001 however I took a hiatus that would last nearly to years before I returned to posting.
When I returned to the internet, my tastes had changed. A lot had happened. I was now divorced, I was in a different line of work and George Lucas had an opportunity to ruin two movies in so many years. It was time to pick a new name, but what.
Since the Lucasverse came crashing down furiously, I needed a place to escape to, and I found it in the Wheadonverse. What name would I use. Spike, he's cool, but I am not a fanboy. Xander, I can really relate to him, but again, not a fanboy. Well, it hit me. When I was a wee lad and dating for the first time, I had my first girlfriend give me my first backhanded compliment. She told me that despite that fact that my eyes were a little too close together and kinda beady, I was handsome.
Now that I think about it, that was more straight forward that previously suspected.
Anyway, enter the Buffy Musical and this line during a crucial point in the shows closing scenes.
Giles - Will this do a thing to change her?
Am I leaving dawn in danger?
Is my slayer too far gone to care?
Xander - What if Buffy can't defeat it?
Anya - Beady eyes is right, we're needed
And there you have it. Anya, the one true love of Xander offering sound advice but not knowing that calling him Beady Eyes, as she had earlier in the show during their duet:
Xander - She clings,
She's needy
She's also really greedy
She never--
Anya - His eyes are beady
was actually not a nice thing to say. This was simlar to my experiences 15 years earlier, so I took it for my own.
Well, if you stuck with me this long, I thank you, and quite frankly, am a little disturbed by your dedication. I do not usually create opus length replies and in truth do not enjoy reading them myself.
Nice to be here. Seems cozy. I invite you all to the above posted link to join us. It is a predominantly male forum and revolves around Star Wars (although the link I
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Mine's easy enough. I had an ornery little gray cat that would come sit on me whenever I practiced zen, so she was my zencat. She's gone now - long and happy kitty life - but she lives on in my favorite screenname!
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My screenname comes from the last name of a very minor character in the David Weber novel Echoes of Honor. "Citizen Captain DeSangro" isn't a very nice person in the book, but don't worry about me... I'm quite friendly! 
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Well being tremendously unoriginal 
I just used the past tense of "fly" to change Firefly into Fireflew.
Not really the whole story but. No, wait, yes it is.
Jayne: "Know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I beat you with till you understand who's in command."
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Well, mine has someting of a dual meaning. On the one hand, it reflects the fact that I am a graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School, and get to wear a Ranger Tab (or did when I was still on active duty). The second comes from the older meaning of the term ranger, as opitimized in TLOR I, when the barkeep tells Frodo about Strider "He's one of them Rangers. Dangerous folk; wandering the wilds on their own" (or something to that effect). Kind of sums up how I have felt for much of my life, taking on the dangerous world by myself.
Traveller, if you go to Sparta, tell them you have seen us lying here as the Law commands.
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"He's one of them Rangers. Dangerous folk; wandering the wilds on their own"
Ah yes, awesome moment in FOTR. As a devout Tolkienite here, I must commend you onr your fine choice and take this time to thank you for your service.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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