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Name Game (modified 0 times) Ahiru I enjoy everyones fluid use of names and 'handles'. Just to break things up a bit, what do your handles mean or signify? Now, dont get paranoid! And dont get your panties in a bunch, unless you want to. This is all for fun. Sorry in advance if I offend anyone. I dont care who you are, I am just interested in what some of the names mean. That's all! Mine: Ahiru = Japanese for Canard, which is French for Duck. I build canard RC gliders and named my favorite one Ahiru. Tackhead = ? Furniture refinisher? Pinhead? Self depricating humor? Cause we all know you are smart and have helped a lot of people. SynSynNak = Wow! I dont know. Synthetic synthesiser Ack/Nack? i-bill = IRS agent? Accountant? BILL GATES?!!! Milhouse = Any relation to Richard Milhouse Nixon? Homage to Milhouse on the Simpsons? The Boss = Bruce Springsteen or Frank Sinatra fan? TacoKing = My kind of guy! Love mexican food. World record Taco 'eater or seller' holder. bad_packet = Warze dude? Protocol analyzer? Net Admin? Kurious = Russian tech spy? DoctorJ = Real Doc? Basketball fan? Basketball hero player? Ledfoot = Luminous feet? Heavy footed driver/network dude? Pyro = 4th of july fireworks fellow? One of America's 10 most wanted? -pyr- = Any relation to Pyro? ASPguy = Citrix and or Tarentella fella? saridnour = Cool name. From India? Dirty word in Hindi? Fuddite = Some sort of offshoot of the Luddite's? Fuddy Duddy Luddy! shrapnel = Stand back! He's liable to go off at any minute! emtnman = Gosh, I dont know! Zonyl = Some kind of Vinyl salesman? Alien from a galaxy far far away? Rembrandt = Greetings sir! I have enjoyed your paintings. magnum31 = 31st copycat of Magnum PI? Own a Ferrari? Own a BIG GUN? sailsbury = I like those steaks. Hope this did not bore you... 06-09-2000 15:58:01

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) -pyr- close actually, pyr is the latin root for 'fire'. Ive had so many people as 'does that mean that you are a pyro?' so many times ive just kinda let it slide. In some ways, yes, I am but only to the extent I admire it, not to the extent I create it (in which case I would have to start using the pseudonym 'arsonist') 06-09-2000 16:38:02

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Tackhead After the late-80s industrial band of the same name. Musical style of the band itself is almost impossible to describe - imagine a really weird blend of heavy bass and dub-like riffs, heavily processed, and then overlaid with multiple layers of samples from military/religious/political figures. Probably responsible for the start of the whole "sampling music" genre. Their influence as individuals was far greater than their influence as a band per se - the names of the four main members (Keith LeBlanc, Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood, and Doug Wimbish) seem to crop up just about everywhere in music from about 1980 through 1990 in a range of styles from old-school rap (e.g. Grandmaster Flash), to funk/dub (George Clinton), to jazz (BB King, Miles Davis), to pop/retro/industrial (Annie Lennox, Depeche Mode, NIN). Besides, I figured with ads for shows like this: http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/tackhead/StrangeAD.gif ...and cover art like this: http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/tackhead/TapeTime.JPG ...what would be a more appropriate name for hacking a 6.4G MP3 boombox out of spare parts? (And with the audio-out mod using ButtonPuncher's buffered op-amp solution, I'll be able to do the bass in their "Mind at the End of the Tether" track some serious justice!) 06-09-2000 16:39:05

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Wahoone Originally from Wahoo, Nebraska. It does exist look up on Map. Everyone usually thinks I'm joking. Wahoo is currently the home office of David Letterman. http://www.wahoo.ne.us/ Now down here in Florida with them Seminoles& Gators giving me a hard time 06-09-2000 16:49:27

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Kurious Curse you, capitalist American swine! A comrade can't even visit nice bulletin board to find replacement MIR guidance computer anymore. Will cost many rubles to purchase equivalent power in Pokemon toys. Back to the bread line for me! 06-09-2000 17:28:05

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Sofa King Crazy Nice thread 06-09-2000 21:15:12

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) alcuin99 the true hacker calculator - the HP48gx. when the hp48 was in development, it went by the code name alcuin, who was the son of york. alcuin was a great mathematician in the 1100's. 06-09-2000 23:03:13

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Milhouse Of Simpson fame... Great show. Nice Thread. 06-09-2000 23:41:40

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) HiRez <---- Almost feeling left out..... Guess if you want... will advise if needed.... 06-10-2000 09:44:54

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) nick lame self explanatory i'm a lamer and everybodys ahead of me by about 3 days still no hard drive its a crazy little box i wish i could get a mouse pointer like it has it is the ultimate analog gamepad the iopener is getting old but it is a valuable lesson to all net boxes they strayed from the webtv model and payed dearly i think i'll cover it with legos and call it blockhead 06-10-2000 14:23:13

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Ahiru This is great. I did not mean to leave anyone out. I have seen many, many, interesting names. I invite anyone, even if their name is self evident, to post. Keep on, keep'in on... Wahoonie! Hawaiian Wahini! 06-10-2000 17:26:23

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Ahiru Mahalo Brudda' Couldnt' resist Wahoone. 06-10-2000 18:01:16

ASPguy stands for Active Server Pages Guy (modified 0 times) ASPguy ASP is an abreviation for Active Server Pages the standard for dynamic web pages using microsoft IIS. I'm a web developer for a dot com . 06-11-2000 11:21:43

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) boykster Just a nick I picked up in high school (class of '90)...actually a shortened version of "BoykMeister"... Both of which are plays on my last name... boykster aka "Boykmeister" 06-12-2000 11:29:16

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Fred M. Self Explanatory. 06-13-2000 10:56:29

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) d2tw4all Profile Don't ask... Oh, you didn't...heh D2. 06-13-2000 14:08:18

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) friar Profile Friar Tuck was a deep thinking yet jolly philosopher who had a bit of trouble with the fruit of the vine. A reluctant rebel and outcast, he lived in a self imposed exile amongst a band of thieves. I relate, somehow. 04-08-2001 10:02:54

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile Ragnar, a minor hero from Scandinavian mythology. The nickname I picked up when stationed in Iceland. 04-08-2001 20:16:38

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) JohnQPyro Profile JohnQPyro = Mid to late 80's, Toured with Journey, AC/CD, ZZtop, and the like. Did Pyrotechnics & Effects. The name was given to me by an enraged road manager. He had seen so many Pyro Techs that he thought I was just another that would not last. I have worked for him ever since. ;) This IS fun.... 04-08-2001 23:22:26

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) parasyght Profile | Email Parasyght beyond the visible spectrum. whats apparent, is not the infectious bug consuming you from the inside out. The perfect virus ...i think i smoked to much pot one day. Parasyght, Life is to seriouse to be taken seriously 04-09-2001 00:24:07

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) h2oboxer Profile My nick represents my 1985 VW Vanagon Camper. It comes with a horizontally opposed water cooled boxer engine. Wasserboxer in German. My license plate is H2oboxer. This van has taken me up and down the east coast from Key West Florida up to Nova Scotia. 04-09-2001 04:44:39

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile I'm a distant relative of Daniel Boone...His family changed the spelling of his last name when they came over from Germany. Mine retained the German spelling. Bone-na is how it's pronounced in German...hence ckbone. 04-09-2001 05:45:15

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) GWIZAH Profile | Email GWIZAH is a derived form of GWIZ, A graffiti (no flames please) tag or nickname. Been using it since 1993 when I first got "gwiz" rejected from aol and decided to add "ah" to the end. (yes, back then you could have a short name like that) Yes, we were all newbies once. 04-09-2001 07:00:07

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email ckbone - Have you every visted Columbia Missouri? I work for the City of Columbia, which is in Boone county and my office is in the Daniel Boone building, which was the Daniel Boone Tavern back in the 1930's (Rather interesting to have a office in an old tavern!). Daniel Boone was a was big person in this area, We have Boonville, which is a small town west of here; Booneslick, which I believe is just a mark on a map were there was an eary settlement and of course the regional libraey is the Daniel Boone Libraey. 04-09-2001 07:33:10

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Yeah BigDog.....I've been there. My ex lived in Jeff City, and went to MSU. Lots of good and bad memories of the place. Very small world..... 04-09-2001 08:22:41

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Hey! I got left out! But my handle should be obvious I think to anyone who needs my services outside of the IOPENER arena. 04-09-2001 10:23:37

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) misterz Profile | Email MisterZ aka Mr. Z Name obtained from my large love of sleep, particularly the form known as "sleeping in." I'm a night owl and will often stay up until 4 AM or so and then sleep till noon, I just don't like mornings. I'm always "catching Z's." I've been lurking on this board for quite a while until i got my iO, now I have it WORKING and I'll probably go back to lurking. ;) 04-09-2001 14:01:40

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email Wouldn't a better name for Badflash be Goodflash ? esp since you flash the chips so that they are "good" not "bad"! The name "Badflash" would seem to be bad PR for a business that fixes things! 04-09-2001 14:28:04

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) 02U2 Profile O2U2, been trying to figure that one out? Kinda sounds like a rock music group... Ok-bet you never guessed... 02U-2 AKA the "Observer" http://www.aero-web.org/specs/vought/o2u-2.htm 04-09-2001 15:24:19

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) DMasier Profile DMasier: I like flight sims and when playing on the company network with co-workers I called myself "Death Master". I went to a flight sim gaming place in Santa Clara, CA with the same co-workers and the clerk misread my handwriting and typed in "Death Masier" into the system. I ended up liking it. (Pronounce it with a French accent... whatever a "Masier" might be in French.) So then I modified the "Death" part to "D" because it's not really appropriate in this forum. (Actually based on my performance at the flight sims, it's not really appropriate there either, unless I'm speaking of my own.) So, DMasier it is. 04-09-2001 16:15:11

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) NormConquest Profile | Email My real name is Nathan Conquest. My 9th grade history teacher, Dr. Trachtman, had a more heroic imagination than my parents showed when they named me. His nickname stuck. Shortened later from Norman to Norm. The Nathans were never big in the conquering game. 04-09-2001 22:03:20

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) r_fl_z Profile | Email tap, tap...this thing on? r_fl_z is the command in the SoftIce debugger to flip the zero register bit...often this is all that is required to bypass various copy protection and registration schemes. I'll leave why someone might want to do this to your imagination ;) '....there's a crack in everything...that's how the light gets in." 04-10-2001 02:44:21

RE:Name Game (modified 0 times) Programmer Profile way back when I programmed stuff like r_fl_z mentioned, I went by the handle TaLoN, when people started stealing my nick I changed it to zTaLoNz to signify that I was the real deal.. Then around the time I went to college, I dropped from the scene for a while and rumors popped up everywhere that I'd gotten busted, so anytime I showed up anywhere everybody stopped talking.. so I dropped from the scene all together.. anyway.. I actually got a job as a programmer a couple of years ago and I'm still there, so when I needed a handle for this groups that's what I chose.. .. just wish I had the time to spend with all the little projects I have going.. most recent success.. :) Little Bros Athlon Classic Burned Up.. too off the cache; resoldered a couple resistors; bumped it up another 150Mhz; now it's a 500@800, and faster than before.. :) 04-10-2001 05:46:14

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