Where did your /nick come from?

[INIT_6]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

My name used to be cold carbon or coldcarbon. Got it from two songs VNV nation plays. they were one after the other in my playlist. Then I got way into Linux. As a noob I had to restart my box alot using the init 6 command. so I said to my self why not. so now I am INIT_6 The command to reboot linux. :( One day I might become INIT_3 one day..........

[astcell]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I served in US Special Operations from 1987 to 1998. When we were deployed to various locations around the globe we had a library in which to study the area where we would be sent. For example, if you were going to Sri Lanka you could read all the books on the country that you wished.

Upon examining one of the books we noticed an immediate concern. The spine of the book was dated 1966. Now in 1966 the book was gold, heck I bet it was valuable up until 1975. But this was the 80s, and with times changing at a faster pace, old books and maps were not good enough.

A determination was made that the teams which wrote the books were of historical value, but not of current value. Instead of a team addressing a country, a team would have to address a section, a splinter, a speck of society in a moment in time. The data needed to be as current as today's newspaper and this afternoon's gossip. The data may hold no value in three days, but we had to work in the now.

The idea was sold. The area studies teams were to not work on a national level, but on a cellular level. The teams would consist of 1-3 individuals using current data to work on a point of order that would be completed in a few hours. No more studying and evaluating over months or years. No more following crops, rainfall, birth rates or populations. Our missions could not use that data. We were now in the age of studying daily news, weather, sports scores, and weekend events. And it worked for our needs. The A.S.T. Cell was born.

I worked the cell for my assigned area and A.S.T. was my nickname in the unit. After I left I kept the monicker, still using it to this day. At one time I thought, "Dang I need to change it because it is a mouthful" but many folks have said it works, so I kept it. Now ya know what I can tell you.

[robosycho]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Stole it out of and Isaac Asimov book that I was reading when I began to get active online, actually short for robot psychologist, or just robot psycho.

[Abby_Normal]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

The nick came from the movie Young Frankenstein. Many years ago when I was working as the lone computer geek in a recording studio, that was one of the lines from the film that the owner of the studio liked to quote all the time, and often used to call me Abby, or Ab. He also like to call me "Betty Jo Bialowsky" (my real name is Nancy).

When I needed a nick for irc it just fit the bill. Now I think more people call me Abby than my real name.

[astcell]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I think "Roamer" got his name because he roamed over to the Apple store and bought a Mac, and now he will never roam alone again.

[Siviak]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Mine came from D&D.

I was 8 and was allowed to create my first character: I was a draconian, and when it came time to pick a name I mixed up the names of 2 or three breeds of draconian (Siva, Bozak, and Aruak) and can up with "Siviak"!

I used it for everything that required a nickname.

Years later I learned that it is a Bulgarian word meaning "dark or shadowy person", or something like that

[zoasterboy]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Mine came from when I was in 8th grade and looking for a name for my first site that was cooler than "josh's awesome website". I looked in the dictionary at the Z's. Zoaster, in its real usage pronounced with the A as in animal, is actually an ancient Islamic religion. I found out later it is also a form of herpes. It sounded cool, and gave me an idea for a logo, the "Zoaster Toaster", a 3D Z with toast popping out of the top. I now use Zoaster to label any project I do.

[meee]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Back in the day’s I use to have a crappy keyboard where the ‘e’ key got stuck. When I would refer to myself in a sentence it would type mee. When I got onto efnet I noticed that mee was always taken so I took the next best thing, meee.

[BlackOrchid]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Blackorchid came from several elements. Orchids are toxic. Black, because I wasn't always legal (black hat),... in the end, no one has ever seen a Black Orchid, so the BlackOrchid.. does NOT exist. Orchids are also a parasite. I just found it a funny name for a humorous person.

[AggonA]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

"Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you"

When you listen that that particular TMBG song, it sooo sounds like John is saying
"Amber Aggona"
and I needed a name for my record label in the 90's..

"aGGona records" turned in to aGGona
in the long run.
hrm.. run punk rock label or make a living..???
Hard Choice..

[Asbestos]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

My moniker came from cancer causing dust. No hidden meanings, or cool stories, sadly.

I have a few other handles I've been saving for a rainy day. I don't know why I'm waiting until it rains, though.

[hackajar]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

It was a tonge and cheeck to a friend that thought he could hack after watching moive "Hackers". I was switching up screen names a lot at that time, from JJSweet to MuffDiver to Amper and then hackajar to mock him (I had told him 'you couldn't hack your way out of a jar'). Just sorta stopped changing screen names at that point and it stuck.

[ForSwitch]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I like it when people who shouldn't get a compiler somehow do. One of my favorite examples would be The Daily WTF entry whereby they introduce the "For Switch" paradigm of programming. For those of you who don't know of it:

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/31621/ShowPost.aspx

[theCount]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Mine was given to me by the staff and regulars of the pub I frequent. I have been known to laugh long and hard in a stacatto, in a way that has been described by some friends as akin to Count von Count from Sesame Street.

Since then, people have actually came up and greeted me as such, as in "Are you the Count?" or, "How's it going, Count?" et cetera.

Of course, some young bucks would pronounce it in a slightly different way and a lot more aggression. Oh, well. Can't win all the time.

Et voila.

[twirl]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I got my nick from high school because a twirl is cadburys choccie bar over here in the uk, and iv been using it ever since then :) I was shocked one day when i met another twirl on another site lol.