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With a new photo contest coming up, it seems appropriate to take up this question once again. There are plenty of new people who have not yet been subject to the community inquisition, er, who have not yet satisfied our collective curiosity. And the newer people are likely wondering about some of the more established people. No, not about their sanity, well, not just about their sanity. And there are some interesting user names out there. So, what's the origin of your Slashdot nickname?

This is my principal account, and the user name comes from my name IRL. My first and middle names are the same as my father's and his father's, so I am John D. III. I also use the account "Jorj X. McKie", who is the protagonist from the BuSab (Bureau of Sabotage) books and stories by Frank Herbert. The premise of that universe is that some do-gooders got control, and removed all of the red tape from government. BuSab was established to slow the mad rush of the wheels of government. My third account is JobCenter, which I started when I was looking for a job in late September of 2003. The idea was to pool information to help community members find work. There was a good response, but (AFAIK) never any actual successes.

OK, then, I've come clean (except for my troll accounts :-)). How about you?
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  • duh (Score:1)

    by gmhowell ( 26755 )
    George
    Meredith
    Howell

    I lost the password for ghowell, and who knows how long ago that email address was.
    • Similarly,

      Matthew
      Steven
      Kwabla
      Fisher
      • Heh... When I first saw your nick, I thought you were a chick... Ms. K. Fisher. I haven't thought that for quite a while though.

    • Re:duh (Score:2)

      by red5 ( 51324 )
      As (I believe it was you) stated earlier if you don't get mine you shouldn't be on here.

      I also lost my password a long time ago and the registered email address (red5@speedyclick.com) had long been defunct. I got back the nick by emailing Michael Sims. Odd story isn't it.
  • I've but the one account. My name is badly bastardized Latin.

    Oculus = eye
    Habent = they have

    It doesn't actually work, you see. Oculus I selected for myself some time ago. The full name came of oculos habent et non videbunt [tripod.com].. I would have been just Oculus [slashdot.org], but a mis-typed e-mail address will do that.

    On the upside, my initials are an excellent interjection. :)
  • Short for Mekka B,
    Short for Mekka Berzerkor, a giant blue fist, approx. the size of the African continent that is studded with nuclear warheads that punches holes through planets.

    Inspired by the song "BERSERKER" from Clerks, it became my handle while my friends were coming up with supa-powa' names of their own (Killor Destructor (~killor(); for you C++ folks), Lazear Wulf (a wolfman with lasers for eyes), and Kenny (a being so foul and powerful he needs no other name)).
  • Daniil is the first name of one of my favourite writers, Daniil Harms. It also happens to be Russian form my of first name, Tanel (it being the Estonian form of Daniel). There, it's really quite simple.
  • My regular nick was taken, so I just made this one up.

    Contrary to popular belief there was no intention at the time of turning the account into this sorry display of everything that's wrong with humanity.
  • Bastard
    Operator
    From
    Kentucky

    See this page [ntk.net] for a detailed explanation for what being a bastard operator from hell means, but basically, we read your email, snoop your net connection, and view the files on your hard disk for fun and profit.

    I used to go by biohazard99 (I was a bio major in college) but that account got $rtbl'ed in the thread of death

  • ahh yes (Score:2)

    by nizo ( 81281 ) *
    nizo=esperanto word for sparrowhawk. When I was a kid we had a pet sparrowhawk; she was the coolest animal I have ever known. Even though she had a life that would have made me curl up into a ball and die (she had been gimped up after being hit by a car) she never lost her spirit.
  • Zeriel is my first-person-shooter nick.

    Zeriel is an archangel, Hebrew literally means "Rock of God", and is considered to be the Angel of Strength in some various interpretations.

  • a learned fool [wordreference.com] ;o)

    I originally came across Morosoph as a mis-spelling for another word that I was going to pick as a username, which I forget now.

  • I've been known as FroMan since either highschool, or maybe even junior high. Mainly comes from the mass of hair on my head that was usually pretty unkept.

    Other nicks that have passed to obscurity are, "Norm" - baseball team, "Fire" - same as FroMan, "Ronald" - same as FroMan, "Mr. President" - plot to take over world in 92 with a six pack of pepsi and two airline tickets to Russia, "Giron" - d&d character, "Tombie" - short lived but famous NPC in one of my games. Probably more, but those would be ev
  • winkydink, short for, errr..., umm... Actually, it's like the cartoon character.
  • Tiny, little, not even one stop light, village in Sweden where I grew up.
  • In High School Days...U2 had just come out with "Unforgettable Fire" which a couple friends and I were obssessing over: "revelation, in temptation, desolation, ISOLATION! Let it go. And start to fade away..."

    "Bad" STILL gives me chills. I was fully enthralled with U2 and had been nursing an addiction with the Beatles since 8th grade. Also, in Freshman year, I fell in love with a little band by the name of Led Zeppelin. And thus, these form the holy trinity of all good music.

    My best friend and I set t
    • So, what flavor was the pie? :-)
    • and if anyone wants to know how to pronounce "btlzu2" its very simple:

      smoochy bear

      yay!!
      • I thought it was pronounced "Battle Zoo Two" but I've been too afraid that I'd be right to ask.
  • I had a few other nicks but forgot the passwords and couldn't get into old e-mail addresses. I was feeling like a fat little penguinette the day I created my current account, and I do like Linux, hence the nick tuxette. I was surprised it wasn't already taken ;-)

  • Me (Score:2)

    by Alioth ( 221270 )
    Alioth [glyphweb.com] is 81 light years from Sol.

    It is also the capital system of the Alliance in the game Frontier: First Encounters (i.e. Elite 3) published around early summer 1995 (the Federation being based in Sol, and the Empire in Achernar).

    My first choice of nick for games, forums etc. is not Alioth though. My first choice was taken; it's "Winston" from Winston Smith (from the book 1984). So if you play ET or TCE and see that nick, please don't shoot at me.
  • This account was a one-off account originally a created for a big troll event that was supposed to take place on October 30th but which, of course, failed to materialize.
  • Voyager's hull number is NCC-74656. The machines on my home LAN get their names from the show as well.
  • My current set of wheels.

    Shakespeare: "All the world's a stage and each man in his time plays many parts."

    An analogy can be drawn with the cars in a man's life. Previous garage occupants have been a pickup truck, a Olds convertible, Mustang GT, a Mini Van, and now a Jeep (albeit a Jeep Liberty).

    The Porsche and Corvette stage are yet to come.

  • I'm an honest to goodness ordained minister named Mike. Sort of...

    A friend was in the late stages of planning her wedding when she found out that her fiance was not qualified to be married in the Catholic Church. He had previously been married in a civil ceremony. Normally this would not be an issue since the prior marriage would not be recognized by the Church. However, his mother was so upset that he didn't have a Church sanctioned marriage that she started writing letters to Bishops, Cardinals, and

  • I dunno why exactly, it was angsty and unique enough at the time I guess. A precollege moment when I was trying to decide what to use for a login as more of the internet started requiring them.

    This happens to be the only place that I seem to use dead sun anymore, as I decided that Aranach would be a better nick my freshman year of college. Why Aranach then? Again, uniqueness. Couldn't hardly turn up a hit for the word, it was mine and mine alone. Just made up.

    Of course, then Aranach gets grabbed for an Ever

  • I be Leons Petrazickis and my handle be "lpetrazickis". Sometimes, I be "St Leo", but I do not be that on Slashdot.

    I do not be Leon Petrazycki [unict.it]. That be my great uncle. He beed childless, single, and intellectual.
  • my nic comes from my inability to understand song lyrics. For a long, long time I thought that the song "Santa Monica" by Everclear had a line that said, "I don't want to be your stoolpigeon" Of course there is nothing like that in the song. I can't even figure out what is close-- "I don't want to be your stupid game" maybe. Anyways that's appropriate as I do that a lot anyway-- misunderstand lyrics.

    This is my second account. I don't remember the username and/or password from my first one. Sometimes
    • Dammit, he does sing that weirdly. I always thought he said stoolpigeon too. :)

      Another thing I learned, (just last week!) was that Michael Jackson sings:
      Billie Jean is not my lover.

      All these years I thought he was saying:
      Billie Jean is at my door.
      • A friend of mine in junior high was a big fan of the AC-DC song 'Dirty Knees'.

        My wife and I got married on April 4th. One night I am watching a documentary on MLK and see he was killed on April 4th and it was like a light bulb went on. I yelled out loud- "That is what Bono is saying... Early morning April 4th!!!!" But by then it was too late.
  • http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630 2 795249/qid=1111423990/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl 14/104-8817066-8913506?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 [amazon.com]

    There used to be clips there long ago. Essentially its an early 90's techno song. I thought it was cool, so I took it as an IRC nick long ago.

    Its also funny when people find out I'm an athiest, so the Jesus thing has no real meaning to me.
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  • Way back in the 80s I was a huge fan of musician/producer/artist Brian Eno. I'm still a fan. :) My original /. nick back in 97-98 was CaptEno. It was sort of a homage to Brian Eno's nickname in the band Roxy Music back in the 70s as well as a fit with the formula CmdrTaco. But, alas, I lost that account when /. lost their early member database. When I finally decided to start another account (one of many) I tried 'eno' but it wasn't available. So that was about the year 2001 and I just appended '2001'
  • I also possess the account Czarina Burrito, which should be kind of obvious as well.
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  • el = star
    megil = sword

    Not an actual Elvish word, but made up from elvish word parts (like how english is made up of latin and french and german and stuff?), learned from the only definitive book on the subject [amazon.com] (which really isn't all that definitive; there are things in The Letters of JRR Tolkien that Ms. Noel misses.

  • "blinder" is a song i wrote for the last band i was in. I wrote the song in like 1992 i believe. it also happens that it was the first unix account i had in school. it was NOT a sanctioned-by-the administration-account... and we'll just leave it at that.

    i've been known as blinder for a long time. there are some people who only know me as blinder -- and have no idea of my real name. which, hey, you know what? i am not hiding... my full name is:

    David MacCrea Palmer

    but yes, "blinder" is a song, nothing real
    • So is it pronounced "blender" (as in, mix me a drink) or "blinder" (as blind, like you can't see)?
      • For some reason I always pronounce it in my head more like somebody with a heavy New England accent might pronounce blender. So I come up with blin-der, halfway between blen-der and blind-er. And of course, since that was my first impression of the name, it's never going away.
  • With as naughty as I am using my own real name, can you imagine the havoc I might wreak using a pseudonym?!

    I learned from experience that masks do not serve me well. Much better to be who I am and shout it from the rooftops!

    ....Bethanie....
  • um last name Noel (actually pronounced Nole), but I was teh first on here to grab it. so it became FirstNoel...

    Simple and easy...

  • My first name is Koria. My surname is Desevis. I think that my slashdot name follows fairly naturally from there?

  • As I've always said. I am not a troll. My nickname was dreamed up during the anti-Iraq war protests in the fall of 2002. I was getting sick of all the neocons spouting off on Slashdot. It almost seemed to me that they were trolling in their best interests with their best interests being loads of money. So... I argued that all neocons are "trolling for dollars". Hence the nickname. Not to mention, back in the 60s/70s in my part of the work (Cleveland Ohio) there was a show called "Bowling For Dollars"
  • Marxist- a nick I got in my late teen, early 20 years, when I still thought the Utopians had the solution. Hacker- somewhat likewise, I was also a bit of a phreaker/code hacker in my youth, and I really appreciate the ideals of the MIT Model Railroad Club (very much the original hackers). Today, though, it means that I hack economics- I've got a novel new analogy of an economic system being very much the same as an operating system- where you have resources and consuming processes and the job of the system
  • "Ethelred Unraed" comes from King Ethelred II "the Unready" of England [wikipedia.org]. It is also pronounced exactly as spelled. Silly you.*

    "Unready" is a modern corruption of the Old English word "unraed", which in turn is a pun on the name "Ethelred". "Ethelred" (also spelled variously "Æthelred" or "Æthelræd") is Old English for "noble counsel" or "good advice"; "unraed" means "ill-advised" or "evil counsel".

    Old Ethelred had a bit of a problem, you see. He was king of the wealthiest nation in norther

  • Actually the story's a little more complicated than that. I got directed here from Tech Report at some point. Over there I used the handle GodInTraining in the forums. I got into some discussions on religion and politics. When I decided to actually post something over here, I'd seen enough in the trolling/modding to want to start with a clean slate. I didn't want comments on front-page articles being modded negatively because of completely unrelated beliefs.

    I also wanted a handle that was rather gener
  • I came here from Tech Report where I used the handle GodInTraining. I didn't want to use the same nick; I'd lurked here and seen how posts could get downmodded for the silliest things. When I finally got signed up, I wanted a very generic name. I have a Rasputin Music that I go past occasionally, so I used that with a dash of "l33t 5p34k".

  • me (Score:2)

    by turg ( 19864 ) *
    I studied dramaturgy. That makes me a dramaturg
  • Ok, I am such a geek it hurts. Talinom was a human Paladin character that I played in D&D years ago.

    Navilor [slashdot.org] is an unused account of mine based (again) on a D&D character. Human theif/mage based loosely on the character Starscream from "The Transformers".
  • Ugh, this is like the 6th time I've explained, but I'll give the short version:

    Used various nicks until the game "Starsiege Tribes" which was the first game to 'force' people into teamwork and working both offense AND defense. Defense was usually ignored (no glory), so I liked to take it and see what I could do with it. With quick strategies and such, I made a defense with a couple other guys (I was the leader) that drove us up the ladders until we had our first place match. They didn't cap the flag on

  • I am Jack's unimaginative username.

  • in a semi-rural suburb of Northeast Ohio that had been a Mennonite community. The Mennonites speak a variant of German called Plattdeutsch in reference to the Northern Lowlands from where they migrated. Because of that it has a distinct Germanic/Anglo sound to it. A good example is that the Der/Die/Das articles are replaced with words sounding more like Old English The/Thee (the Wiki is here [wikipedia.org]).

    Not that interesting. It just meant that sometimes you'd be at the grocery store and then see this family all
  • I was at a LAN party at a buddy of mine's, playing Quake III when someone who I was thoroughly whipping make a comment about "I'd be doing better if it wasn't for that f.cking Rail Gunner"... to which I laughed, and the nick stuck.

    And I'm still a good shot, you might have seen me online in UT 2k4 as the mighty KrnlPanic, picking off poor jabronies with the lightning gun and sniper rifle.

  • My initials are D.E.G., so I wanted a word that began with that. Way back when, I wanted to write a software development environment that allowed only mathematically provable constructs (this was when CASE was a bit of a rage) (Hey - the hardware guys do it, how about us software guys growing out of the stone age some day?). One of the fundamental ways to do this is to use extremely small code snippets that are as simple as heck - let the software do the heavy linking. If I had a company, it would need a s
  • This goes back to college and IRC (long before mIRC and stuff). My nick and my mission was Confusion and I kept mutating my hello from Greeting to Gleetings to Green Leaves and Hallucinogens (Greetings and Salutations of course). Of course that was a pain to type so I finally just used GL&H. Those who knew knew. And the occasional Huh? was usually corrected by other people.

    Eight character Unix account limit drove to be chosing confused when I created a new account at school ("took a semester off").
  • I've actually never answered this, well not here. At the time that I was making my slashdot account I was studying the history of computing in my senior seminar course in college (circa 1998). We happened to have just studied Admiral Grace Hopper and I thought that it went well with my username so I appended it there.

    Yeah not that interesting. It always conjured up images of a grasshopper in my mind, and ironically my wife calls a framed linoleum print of a grasshopper that I made in HS the "sbuckhopp
  • Back when I signed up here, I used to write for a (dearly departed) hockey website, inthecrease.com. My column was called Top Shelf, and it was a great chance to write commentary on the NHL and get feedback from fans all over the world. Back then, it was a novelty to write for a "web magazine."

    The best part was that in the spring of 1997, I lived in Ann Arbor and InTheCrease was doing pretty well. We had a liason with the NHL, and were working on establishing a journalistic relationship, when I got the
  • I can not explain it yet. It will give too much away.

  • It basically comes from an inside joke regarding my name/initials and a work joke about a certain nunchaku-weilding hamster toy that I got for Christmas. Of course, I mispelled hamster as hampster, but oh well.

    And.. U Can't Touch This!

  • kesuki was my attempt at translating my old usenet handle which was picked up because i felt extremely insecure about using my 'made up english last name' Since my great grand parents* insited on using their finnish name Ryytty, they didn't have 'english last names' imposed on them upon coming to this country. Since, my grand parents wanted to have a more english usable last name, they changed last name to a more english spelling of the pronunciatiation of the finn spelling. This mean, that no-one else in
  • When I made a character for Asheron's Call, I wanted something distinctive, gender neutral (I thought), not too wimpy, but not too overlord sounding. I also didn't want anyone in any game, anywhere to be using it. Since then I've revised it to just Neimo, which only turns up 800 hits on google. Seems to be used uncommonly in Scandanavia.
  • well lets see... I have more than a ton (tons) of Personal Computers. easy enough

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