Where did your /nick come from?

[Clp727]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I picked Clp727 cause all the cool names were taken. I'm open for suggestions.

I was just a machinist when my interest in computing developed. I began by learning how to program various CNC machinery; milling machines, lathes, and lasers...the usual stuff. I hated dealing with computers until then.
As my interest in computing grew, I wanted to join a forum so that I could learn some stuff and needed a username. I didn't have any cool nickname so I used my initials and mailbox number. I know it's lame but I wasn't about to use some "1337" name that presented a false perception of who I was... and "Beginner" was already taken.

[DJ Jackalope]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Well, once apon a time I wanted to write an IP scanner/SYN port scanner. It was slow so I decided to look up on multithreading. I then realized it looked more cool with a underscore in the beggining. And *BOOM* _multithreading was born.

A cookie to whoever gets my last alias here xD

Awe cool, you made a new account just so you could post on this thread! And I'm going to laugh if its Blackwave.

[oo0nothing0oo]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Well, I got my name after a few trial and errors. I've had few nick names that stuck to me in real life. The closest one to sticking was Newton. As for online, I have went through many names in the beginning and finally, I stuck with this one.. oo0 nothing 0oo or differnet variations of it depending on the format allowed. mainly i just keep it all together.
The name stuck out to me because of a book I read. One of the main characters was named nothing and he said he liked his name because it was like a clean slate on which anything could be written. I've liked that idea.

I have no cool quotes :Þ
oo0 nothing 0oo

[Nikita]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

The name stuck out to me because of a book I read. One of the main characters was named nothing and he said he liked his name because it was like a clean slate on which anything could be written. I've liked that idea.

That is very cool. I understand that and its something you wouldnt have guessed about your nick either :-) I like that.

[DaKahuna]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I had really had three to pick from. One not very common but rather vulgar, the other was simply "BJ" which was short for "Big John" and the last, which is how you know me, was given to me by members of a crew on one of the ships I servred on. One of my roles was that of a member of the Damage Control Training Team, the ship was home ported in Hawaii, I became da'kahuna !

[TheCotMan]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I wanted a name that would not sound dumb or lame if I ever had to go to court or introduce myself with this name to older people without them making quick judgments.* I also wanted a name that was an english word that would allow for lots of collision in the namespace for searches. There are other reasons that will remain hidden as why the simple word "Cot" (kaht) was chosen, but it is related to "Star Trek"(tm - Paramount) -- though not any of the movies or books or short stories or anything owned by Paramount.

Due to confusion of me being male or female in purely online chat, or discussion, and more collisions in the namespace (cotman is a semi common name and an artist) "man" was appended to Cot.

"The" was prepended to CotMan for the forums because there is only one.

The IRC Nick came from the diagnosis of a problem, but later became a name to reflect a form of blacklisting.

* Imagine being young, using a nickname like "UltraLaserBeam" , getting older, and then having to go to court for any reason (witness, or being on trial) and acknowledge having had that nickname. There are worse names too, like "asshole," or names that suggest deviant behavior like "SexMonster" or "OneEyedWillie" or "OneEyedTrouserSnake" or "FearedByYourDaughters" or "Satan's Minion" -- whatever. Names that make you look, "dark," deviant, or inhuman work against you in the real world. Names that make you "appear 31337" (appear elite, but in a bad way) do the opposite of "command respect."

Cot is low profile, single sylable, easy to forget, and carries little meaning or judgement by those that see it for the first time. It doesn't really say anything about me, except what can be extracted as listed above. :-)

[arashi_kage]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

If you can tell by my avatar my name comes from G.I. Joe. Everyone knows Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow as the original ninjas. Arashikage is the ninja clan that they come from. Arashikage literaly translates into storm shadow from Japanese. I actually studied martial arts and been to Japan a couple times and just always thought that ninjas were cool. I have even been thinking about getting the clan symbol tattooed on my forearm. I just seperate it with the underscore for a better chance that it's not taken on other sites.

[800XL]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

My 1st computer was an Atari 800xl. I got it in 1985.

[Voltage Spike]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Well, once apon a time I wanted to write an IP scanner/SYN port scanner. It was slow so I decided to look up on multithreading. I then realized it looked more cool with a underscore in the beggining. And *BOOM* _multithreading was born.

A cookie to whoever gets my last alias here xD

Well, from the short story (and the geeky "cookie" thing), that would lead me to believe that you are effugas a.k.a. Dan Kaminski ... mainly due to the connection to scanrand. However, scanrand uses only two threads and I can't believe the real Dan would lose his password. So I'm guessing I don't get the cookie.

[TheCotMan]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Well, from the short story (and the geeky "cookie" thing), that would lead me to believe that you are effugas a.k.a. Dan Kaminski ... mainly due to the connection to scanrand. However, scanrand uses only two threads and I can't believe the real Dan would lose his password. So I'm guessing I don't get the cookie.

To also lose an e-mail address that can be used to reset a password also seems unlike effugas, who also knows at least one of the mods here well enough to meet them in person at some point and get the password reset. (We have the policy of "you lose your e-mail account, we won't reset your password" because there is no way for us to be sure the person claiming their account password and email address were lost really was the person that signed up for the account. Imagine that-- people trying to social engineer an account on the Defcon forums.)

This leaves us with four likely possible groups:
1) Person that forgot their password, and lost their email account.
2) Person that was banned for asshat-like behavior
3) Person that had an account with zero posts, but came back after 2 years of inactivity to find it purged
4) User that never validated their e-mail address, or whose email address became inavlid and had zero posts.

[bascule]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Yay, another thread just like the countless others which came before it. That's okay, I'll answer again.

Bascule was the main character of Iain Banks' novel Feersum Endjinn, which takes place in a fractured post-human future dystopia where humans live out much of their existence in computer networks regulated by artificial intelligence systems.

Why did I like it so much?

Because Banks came up with the coolest name for the ubiqutious computer network in which we will live post-human lives

Not the Matrix (if the only reason you know the name the Matrix is because you saw the movie of the same title, FOR SHAME)

Not the Metaverse

The CRYPTOSPHERE

[[Syntax]]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

This nick isn't my first nick, some people know me by others, but this one has stuck for the longest time now.


When I last switched nicks to SyntaxError "Pirch" was a popular IRC program, and a contender to Mirc for windows. I guess this was about 1997, Mirc was just getting started. Pirch is dead now... but was alive and well at the time.

I was writing "PIL" modules for it (Pirch Interpreted Language), just breaking into programming languages, a little C, Basic, Javascript, Perl, CGI.. but Pirch ran code that was some sort of hybrid between C and Pascal. They called it a Pascalesque language. The only problem is many functions were not implemented and you constantly had to write workarounds for missing code.

Thus a constant stream of Syntax Errors followed.

I now dabble in about 12 different languages.

I shortened SyntaxError to SyntaxEr then to [Syntax].

[zorch]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

It was the name on the plastic bracelet I was wearing when they let me out of the place with the milkshakes and pills and carpet on the walls.

Before that I was Spock, but now that's just my password.

[BonzoESC]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I scribbled my name all messy-like on a test, and when another student was returning them, he screwed up his face and said, "BONZO...?"

[Virosa]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

My name comes from the latin name of a tasty and nutritious mushroom called "Destroying Angel". Destroying Angel sounded a little pretentious to me, but Amanita Virosa sounds hip and sexy. 'Specially that last part.

I like mushrooms. Almost as much as emoticons.