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....My handle comes from a German word: [g]luckskind...
...meaning "lucks child" or "child of fortune" though I'm not a kid..LoL
So what's the basic story behind YOUR screenNAME?
My name is Chris
...Yup ...there's always a good story to be found
behind those screen names!
...so far, I'm not disappointed! : )
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When I had long hair the first time, I did not take care of it like this time around. So it's kind of like taking care of your lawn or garden to keep it nice looking, healthy, pest free, etc.
I'm a guitarist
I'm a Reverend, actually.
I became an ordained minister, like Reverend Erik of HairReligion, through the Universal Life Church.
However, I am not a minister of any religion (hair oriented or otherwise). I'm sort of a Nothing Reverend. A minister of the Church of Ambiguity. Something like that.
Gives my spirituality room to breath.
The Rev
I love the band "Metallica", and I love to play in the mud, hence, "mud-tallica"!
I just wish I had a Gandalf-like beard.
I originate from Poland, which in Polish is written as Polska. I originally got this name from being the only foreign hockey player in my League and wearing a Polish emblem on my helmet. Kinda stuck and now most of my friends call me Polska.
Well....I have long red hair and am a rocker!
My real name is Victor. I use Victor when I'm participating on the board in the same fashion as all of you. I am also the webmaster, and I use Webmaster only when posting official webmaster-related messages.
I guess it is somewhat in line with the topic to discuss why I chose the name the-light.com for my website. I originally registered in 1994, near the beginning of the internet boom, when good domain names were still easy to come by.
Well, Jesus said, "I am the light", so I sort of applied that literally to my situation and registered the-light.com. It seemed appropriate for the primary purpose of my website, which at the time was to show off my car, which, when I went to artcar shows, I dressed as pictured.
Now, I regret the name in some ways. Having to explain the hyphen has become a real pain. Let that be a lesson to any of you choosing a name. Don't pick one with a hyphen. OTOH, I think thelight.com was already taken.
The hyphen is OK. What is a pain in the anatomy is the underscore_ used by a number of so called professional computer people but hated everyone else.
I work on a software package that used to allou periods, but not underscores in field names. Starting with version 3, in order to be compatible with SQL, they switched to allow underscores but not periods. Talk about a mess!
I got into the Internet as an offshoot of my amateur radio hobby, and in a ham's eye, "Handles are for CBers; hams use their name." So I've always used my name. :-)
Bill, K9AT
really weird; the same reason as i had...
..and the D for Germany; there are so many Michael`s
Michael
DF 5 ZZ
Same for my partner, too. A lot of the early adopters of the Internet were hams, and the thought never occurred to either of us, nor any of our ham friends, NOT to use our names. When you've been throwing your name out onto the worldwide shortwave bands for thirty years, and there was never any harm in doing that, why would you change it? To us, all the Internet was, was another ham band. Hey, at first, we were talking to all the same people as we had been on the ham bands before - we had been sending e-mail via packet radio with that crowd since the early 1980s.
By the way, I've heard a few other hams comment that "handles belong on the Children's Band", the implication being they wouldn't be caught dead using one. Just as having long hair causes one to "get over" the need for conformity, being on the air worldwide with government-issued call letters gets one over the need for anonymity, I suppose.
I'll admit, e-mail is a lot easier than Morse code. :-) We seldom fire up the ham gear anymore, and we don't have our call letters on the very front of our home page anymore, but we have left them on the blue title bar at the top for historical reasons, and we've said we will never change that. Hey, we met at a ham club; I spotted that longhaired beauty immediately! [Damn if he didn't cut it soon after we met, but that's another story. ;-) ]
One nice thing about the ham hobby was that there were always a decent number of longhaired men in it. I never belonged to a ham club of any size that didn't include some, and at fleamarkets there were always LOTS! :-)
Bill,
I have only limited exposure to ham radios. As you know, I grew up in Guatemala. During the school year, I wend to an American boarding school in Huehuetenango (pronounced way-way tenango). The dorm father of my dorm had a ham radio. Unfortunately, he didn't have a license to broadcast, so he was limited to listening.
As you may know, there was a major earthquake in Guatemala in the mid-70s (it was initially rated 7.6 and subsequently upgraded to 8.2). For a couple of weeks, us kids had no idea whether our parents were OK, nor did they know if we were OK. Uncle Carl (as we referred to the dorm father) listened to reports on the ham radio, and the casualty figures steadily rose from the hundreds to the thousands.
Out in the village (most kids' parents were missionaries out in various villages around the country), each family in my parent's mission had a two-way radio. These were not ham radios but I guess, some cheaper form of radio. We kept in touch with each other by signing on every morning at 7AM. My parents had the call letters TDIV-10. My girlfriend's family, located at the limit of sight (probably 35 miles or so) used TDIV-7. Funny how I remember trivia like this.
The parents, though, weren't in the various villages but were in Guatemala City for a conference. Anyway, about 2 weeks later, a cessna full of a few parents landed at Huehuetenango, and we then knew everyone was safe.
As recently as the early 1980s, I spent a night with a family in Florida who had a ham radio. One of the sons of the hosts was busy practising is Morse code. It seems it was required for licensing. Is Morse code still a requirement? It seems to me it was discarded as a requirement at some point.
It was, for frequencies that are mostly line of sight. For frequencies that go worldwide, you still have to learn it, but only at what was before the beginners' speed. Modern technology, coupled with the ubiquitous knowledge of one language (English) by those engaging in international communications, have made the use of Morse code less essential than it once was, and that is the reason for the change.
Many people had trouble with the Morse code, but the power structure (read that "existing hams and government radio engineers") all had learned it and had disdain for anyone who couldn't. A common response to those complaining was, "Five year olds have learned it, so what's your problem." When the requirement was removed, potential hams came out of the woodwork by the hundreds of thousands. We learned that so many had had a learning disability with respect to the Morse code that one would be tempted instead to turn to those who had learned it, and apply a label to them instead, saying, "You have a gift."
I love dogs, and I love rainy, stormy weather,
and being out in the same.
Hence, Wetdog, or Stormdog, another name I use.
manes as the mane(s) of a horse which is longish hair and 6969
because there are a lot of 'manes' people , so i choose this
number 6969 which was unused at that time (some years ago)
Two of the most important things in my life are fitness (FIT) and music (Mus)=FITMUS
Treyn is from a series of knicknames the guys at work have called me for years. Here is the order: My name is David. Then Dave. Then Davy. Then Gravy Davy. Then Gravy. Then Gravytrain. Then finally one of the guys just started calling me Train. So I spell it Treyn to make it unique I guess. There you have it!
That's neat! :)
oDD_LotS was a name that I used in early high school in chatrooms. IT was bestowed upon me by a close friend (she had the coolest screennames) as an asthetically pleasing screen name, and because I was always a bit of an odd child.
I guess I have the most boring reason. I choose Remi because thats my real name.
I'm a bit of a hippy, but also an engineer so into technology. More specifically I am into alternative technology. If you don't know what this is have a look at the Centre for Alternative Technology.
www.cat.org.uk
How do you spell "center"? (wink)
Bill (on the east side of the big pond)
I've had this nickname for a long time now. I originally got it from looking at the names of the songs on Tool's 'Lateralus' CD. Track 4 is called 'Mantra' and track 5 is called 'Schism'. I said them together and liked how it sounded. I used it.
Later, I began to realize that it was actually very accurate for me. See, I'm very spiritual, and yet I was unsure of what I believed. Part of me was Christian, and part wasn't. So it was like a personal schism, a dichotomy, but my spirituality (mantra being a type of chant used in Hindu and the like) never went away. So I was unsure, and thus I was going through a mantraschism. But now I think it may be time to drop the latter part of my name, as my schism is all but gone now. =] I keep it now mostly because of aesthetic reasons; I still like how the word looks and sounds. Also, it's familiar to me, and it's almost like my name. Example: if I hear the word 'mantra', I want to respond, because usually people online just call me 'Mantra' and I now identify with it. Fitting, since my beliefs are mostly Eastern. Other nicks I've used are Fates Guardian (which came about from an equally unoriginal means as Mantraschism; the bands Fates Warning and Blind Guardian combined) and Sméagol, who is a Tolkien character (aka Gollum). That came from the fact that Sméagol is probably my favorite character. So that's basically it. ^_^