What does your screen name say about you?

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Re: What does your screen name say about you?

Mine comes from my absolute favourite character in "Wind in the Willows"

[The Liquidator]

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Mine is what I do for a living (no.. not the machine gun-carrying type!).

[aged hippy]

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Mine is what I do for a living (no.. not the machine gun-carrying type!).

Very literal.

A friend i used to speak to on the CB went by the handle of Hopper Knocker.

He was literal as well....

[sxeptomaniac]

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I picked mine when due to an interest I have in ancient philosophies, particularly Skepticism. I originally went by Skeptomaniac, but it wasn't long before I ran into others who had picked that nickname. So, I decided to shift the name to Sxeptomaniac. The X was chosen due to my time in college and seminary, in which professors would often use an "X" for Christ when making notes on a board, explaining that it's not an English "ex," but a Greek "chi" (for those unfamiliar with Greek, it's the first letter in the word Christ in that language. This form of abbreviation goes back centuries.)

Of course, it was only much later that someone pointed out that it didn't take much effort to make a funny anagram out of the first six letters, which had never occurred to me.

[GreyGeek]

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Greygeek - that describes some of my mates

Regarding the code and paddle - I live halfway up the east coast of Australia and was talking to New Zealand on SSB, 30 Watts. I heard an English call sign between overs - hang on I said, I'll swing my beam around to get you - and lost him. Pointed it back at New Zealand and there he was again. Got him on the long path. That was from my bedroom in my parents house in the eighties.

My name is Darren, my wife's name is Stasia and our daughter is Shaanii.

It's amazing the way signals bounced off the ionosphere and skipped about every 1400 miles. I wonder if you had pointed your beam up you may have caught the edge of the signal that was bouncing over you? We'll never know, but at least you caught it coming from the backside. Farside?

BTW, Thanks for your service, Detonate.

Before I went to the Barns School of Business in 1959 to study "data processing" I had planned on joining the military. I took a test the recruiter gave at the time and scored 95% on it (it was probably rigged ), so they said I could chose any MOA that I wanted. I chose missilery. They mentioned a "cape" in Florida but I never connected it to Canaveral until later. Anyway, I talked my best HS buddy into going along with me on the "buddy plan". He passed the physical. The doc asked me "How long have you had those toes, son?" They didn't think a kid with hammer toes could march very far in combat boots. I couldn't understand why not, because I spent a lot of my weekends and summer vacation hiking around the mountains West of Denver, CO. I waved goodbye to my friend and decided to look into "data processing". As it turned out, the doc was right. As a got older the tendons retracted even more, making my toes look almost like raptor claws raised to strick and it pulled the pads on the soles of my feet away from the joints, making walking very painful. Since then I have had two very painful foot operations and both failed to make any difference. It is almost impossible for me to walk on any floor bare footed except a padded one. I wear sandals to keep callouses off the top of my toes, because I would wear holes in the tops of my shoes before I'd wear out the soles.

I was classified as 4F. Later, after I got married and while I was in grad school they changed my classification to 1Y. fit for service in case of a national emergency.

[Detonate]

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Hey, I used to "shoot skip" on SSB back in the eighties. Got QSL cards from all over the world. Lots from Australia. Got to hit that 11year sun cycle just right.

Hey GreyGeek, I'll bet you know how to plug wires in the board on an IBM card sorter, don't you?

[kjjjjshab]

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At Moe's tavern, Homer turns to Moe for advice.

Homer: Moe, I need your advice.
Moe: [bored] Yeah.
Homer: See, I got this friend named...Joey Jo-Jo...Junior...Shabadoo --
Moe: That's the worst name I ever heard.
[A man leaves, weeping]
Barney: Hey, Joey Jo-Jo!

The added K is obvious... and I shortened the Shabadoo for no particular reason.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F07.html

[kjjjjshab]

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...My son and I watched EVERY NASA launch together (via TV, regardless of the time it was televised) until he went off to college. Last year we visted Cape Canaveral together. ..

My wife and I got to see a military launch there... not quite as exciting or loud as the shuttles, but still pretty great. It was overcast and they weren't going to launch, but we skipped the first touristy tour thing when you get off the bus just to be sure, and they had restarted the clock to like 15 minutes. We were front row! I think it immediately failed in orbit, but who really knows being it was military.

The last Titan launch was on April 9, 1999, when a Titan IVB launched the USA 142 early warning satellite. This launch resulted in a failure, after the IUS upper stage failed to separate, leaving the payload stranded in a useless GTO orbit.

[TURBO_TURBINA]

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I am TURBO. The master mind behind the TURBO docks!!

[DeathKitten]

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Here I go by Death Kitten, but in some other places I go by Diziara as Death Kitten seems common enough that I can't always get it.

It's all because of an RPG character I've been playing with in the Star Trek universe for almost a decade now. Her nick name is Death Kitten, her given name is Diziara. My avatar here on the forums is a picture of her an old friend drew for me a while back. At first, she was just a cool character for a friend's game... but over time I've come to identify her as a manifestation of my Id.

Also, for the record, it seems like I'm the baby around here as I'm only 25. I also know I'm not the only female on these forums... but am I the only one to report in on this thread yet?

[arist]

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I'm a philosopher, but not such a good one. Using the whole name "Aristotle" would be too pretentious.

Also an old-timer: learned a tiny bit of FORTRAN in 1970. Also had a high number.

If there's ever a contest for best name on this forum, my vote goes to Death Kitten.

[GreyGeek]

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Hey, I used to "shoot skip" on SSB back in the eighties. Got QSL cards from all over the world. Lots from Australia. Got to hit that 11year sun cycle just right.

Hey GreyGeek, I'll bet you know how to plug wires in the board on an IBM card sorter, don't you?

Oh, ya! THAT was "programming" in the day. All it really did was to connect the electrical path from the copper wire brushes that passed through holes in the punch cards and completed a circuit that opened a gate allowing a card to drop into a bin. Ever drop a tray of partially sorted cards and have to start over?

Later on, in grad school, the technique was the KSR-133 10 cps keyboard with the punched paper tape attachment. That's what I used to write Fortran IV programs in a form the CDC6600 computer could read and convert to a green bar printout. That printout contained either the answer to the problem or the listing of your code with the errors marked. Rinse and repeat.

Single Side Band was coming in just as I left amateur radio. I had stayed with CW and never moved to voice, so I never used SSB. I was more interested in QRP.

There were a lot of Austrailian AR folks on the air back then because I imagine it was the only way to communicate between "springs" due to the lack of phone lines.

[Qqmike]

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"Ever drop a tray of partially sorted cards and have to start over?"

(Would you be referring to a small deck or a very, very, extremely large deck having tons of conditional branching statements and DO loops?)


"I used to write Fortran IV programs [on] the CDC6600 computer ..."

That sentence has another familiar ring to it.

[smeghead67]

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My screen name comes from my second favorite British Sci-fi show, Red Dwarf, Smeghead is an insult on it. 67 is the year of my birth. My favorite Brit show is Doctor Who.

To all of you that have served thank you from the bottom of my heart.

My programing was on a DEC at the University of Cincinnati. I was doing VAX basic and writing all my girlfriends COBAL code, Hated Fortran 77. Family business closed and went to Kent state, did a year of COBAL, thought i was smart and changed major. started dating my wife and since i paid more attention to her than school, was asked to take a year off and think about it. didn't go back.

I'm also a ham (wierd huh) and love psk-31. moved and have yet to put a antenna up.

I'm working on creating a play by email game. using a mysql database I hope to have it going soon.

[toad]

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Red Dwarf was WICKED!!!