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Hmm... maybe I should try that..
-Emma
Man, it must have been rough growing up with parents who'd name a boy Emma.
;)
As far as I can tell, most Dazzlers are unexpected women, it's great.
Nah, they named me Emily, I hated it. My most epic grandfather called me Old Lady Emma (when I was still a young girl).. after he passed away I decided everyone should call me Emma in his memory. That was 20 years ago and I still miss him. Thankfully now I have a father-in-law that's equally epic.
Are you kidding C64 rule !!!
Hehe...mostly it's hard to know what gender a person is by their screen name ;). While in the U.S. people might assume I'm female because of my first name, in other countries my first name can be a male name (such as the U.K.) :P. In this case tho, it would be correct to assume that I'm female. LOL.
Laurie
In photography the term photo shoot is often shortened to just shoot as in "I'm heading out for a shoot" or "how was your shoot today" naturally the past tense also gets used, and things like "I shot this kid today" is something very common to hear in a portrait photo forum. At the time I was getting into photography there had been a lot of shooting - actual shootings with guns - and there was a huge debate in the photo forums about using the word "shoot" and "shot" - yes this was an actual argument. My response was that I would much rather someone shoot me with a Canon, then shoot me with a gun. If everyone that wanted to shoot someone with a gun was given a Canon the world would be a much more beautiful place."( I REALLY hate guns and truly think this would be an awesome thing to do!) That's when deathbycanon was born and I have used it everywhere for 13 years. :)
Canon = the camera brand, and the one I "shoot" with.
Even though "Toyen" might sound like something from the Japan/Korea anime sphere, it was actually a nick name of one not too famous Czech surrealist painter : )
I think a lot of us got our starts with C-64s... there's never been a better computing value in terms of dollar per feature when compared to what else was available at the same time, and 35 years later it's still listed as the single best selling computer model of all time. Ours was a huge improvement over my family's first computer, a Commodore Vic 20, especially in the graphics department, and my dad and I even splurged and got a Koala pad, the very first commercially produced graphics tablet, as well as a Piano keyboard add-on with the Kawasaki synthesizer program, as the C-64 also had one of the best sound chips then available. The only flaw in the whole system was the power supply, which we had to replace at least 3 times during the five years that it was our main computer. Fortunately, the guy at our local computer store ordered them in bulk and sold them for only a few bucks over cost since 90% of the time there was a problem with a Commondore in our area, it was the power supply.
DA maybe PA someday... I've been more creative with names of characters but here I just use my initials LBG "AL"BIE"JEE"
I'm enjoying reading this thread for sure!
My username has a pretty simple origin....Aave is ghost and Nainen is woman in Finnish. When I was trying to decide on a vendor name Ghost Woman sounded so boring so I used google translate to find a language that made those two words in combination seem more interesting!
I received my moniker in the spring of 1977 while I was working at a retail record/tape shop in the days of LPs and 8-tracks. I was a bit of a clown and there was a popular insult phrase at the time, "You jive turkey!". I had made a good friend there who dubbed me "Turkey John" (My real name is John). Over time it mutated into T. John, Tejohn and finally Tjohn (all pronounced T. John). I had always been an amateur artist, and got into digital art when I got my first real computer (an Amiga 500) around the early '80s. After a few years I connected to the internet and when I needed a user name I used my nickname.
I still love making computer art.
The friend that dubbed me Tjohn passed from cancer in 2005, so I'll probably never change it.
Thanks K.L. , miss you buddy.
I have had two nicknames in my life. The first was Angel. I was a child bride at 15. My hubby nicknamed me Angel. At age 19 we seperated. The first thing I did was open a flowershop by convincing an automotive supplies owner to rent me the left half of his shop (he sold auto and plumbing supplies). It had two display window, and the left one was covered with cardboard. He asked, How much ya got." I told him all I had was 350.00 dollars. He shook his head and muttered, "Piss 'n vinegar." I said, "Say what?" He said, "You're plumb full of piss and vinegar." I literally begged him to rent me the front left area that he was using it to store empty boxes and pcv pipe. He said, "It's obvious you don't have any business plans, do ya?" I said, "I have a plan. I just can't afford it yet." His daughter tugged on his sleeve, "Dad give her a break." He inhaled deeply, "Keep your 350.00. I'll give you the first two months free. Go buy some stock so you can pay your rent in 60 days."
Six months later I could afford an ad in the phone book and when the salesman asked, "What's the name of the shop? Your sign is blank." I said, "I'm still struggling with that." He tapped his pen on the order and said, "I can't put you in the book without a name." I mulled over it for a week. It was about that time, I reconciled with my 1st husband and asked his help with coming up with a catchy name. After tons of tries, he said, "Angel, your maiden name was Rose, use that - call it House of Roses." I said, "What if I'm sold out of Roses or don't order any?"
"Angel, it's your shop you figure out the name." I yelled, "Angel! Angel is perfect. I'll name it Angel Florists. When babies are born people call them little angels, when they get married they look like one, and when people die they hope to be one. It's the perfect name."
I can't count the time, people would call up the shop and ask to speak to Angel and I'd respond with, "I'm Juanita, there is no such person as Angel here." I quickly learned to change my response to, "Speaking."
Years later, at Chamber of Commerce meeting, and other events, people would introduce me as 'Their good friend Angel', so everything I did after that, was Angel something or the other.
I forgot to add the most important part - Dazaholic.
No surprise, as a child bride, my first son (if alive) is 44 but he got kidnapped at age 8. I envy you.
@kyoto kid The mind is a powerful tool. You are what you think, but I get how you feel. My husband underwent back surgery and the doctor messed him up. On top of putting a screw into his nerve sac, penetrating his spinal canal (instead of the rod he implanted), the doctor took 7.5 hours to perform a 4 hour procedure. One of his patients (inverted for spinal fusion) woke up blind after blood pooled to his head. Two days after my husband's surgery he had a PE go through his heart and settle in his lung. He went from being a CDF Volunteer, President of a bike club, sanctioned photographer (hobby), a social butterfly and a top award-winning performer/mentor at a fortune 500 company to being permanently disabled, depressed and suffering almost as bad as Jesus did on the cross. But I thank God we were not among his other casualties, like the african-american he killed on the operating table. I understand your pain. Focus on the good things and if there aren't many good times focus on how warm the sun feels or how well you can breathe. Life is good because you're alive.
I love this thread :)
Mine is a shortened form of "Digital Steam Engine" I first discovered I could make money for drawing things before I was five years old, and I was selling commercial art back when "Cut and Paste" involved an X-acto knife and tape or glue, but about 1993, I was creating an event program book, and a programmer friend said I should be using a computer for that stuff. I told him I'd gotten into computers for a while in the 80s but they couldn't' really do the kind of art I did.
He disabused me of those delusions by inviting me to his house to try house his new Windows NT machine, and this program he'd gotten to go with it - Fractal Design Painter. He also had this other program - Lightwave 3D - that would, in a round-about way, eventually, lead me here. :) Between the two of them, I came over to his house almost every day until I bought my own computer.
While I like Science Fiction quite a bit, most of the art I sell is of an older feel, from medieval through to Victorian & old west, mostly. At one point (before the goths discovered brown ;)) I used to differentiate it from natural media art by saying it was delivered by digital steam engine.
A few years ago, when I decided I'd had enough of building websites, and was going to taper off my client list and take a bit of a sabbatical to sharpen my claws for my next adventure, I grabbed the domain name "DigitalSteam" to use as a gallery & portfolio, and a place to consider relevant commissions, and I've been using it as a sign-in on a few art related forums and sites since.
(There's nothing on the site yet - I'm pouring info into my head and getting back up to speed - building up a good head of steam, you might say - on the new tools. :) )
Oh cool, I didn't know of this thread! Now I finally know what the story behind "SickleYield" is!
I was listening to a lot of "Hercules and Love Affair" when I picked this online identity, way back when. The story behind the band name is that the band leader had always been fascinated with the legends of Hercules and his many male lovers. So I looked up who those lovers were, and Hylas was one of them.
Mine comes from an old sci-fi novel by Alfred Bester called "Tiger! Tiger!", but I only read it a few years ago. I just learned by consulting the wiki that this is after a William Blake poem called "The Tyger".
So what's this jaunte business? From the wiki:
So what's a blue jaunte?
Essentially, without knowing your location, you can blue jaunte out of prison and leave it to luck where you would land, with death being a very likely outcome because the chance is high you will arrive below ground or on the inside of mountain, up in the air perhaps where you would suffocate or fall down and die, or in the middle of the ocean etc. It's more or less suicide with a tiny chance of survival and freedom.
So glad someone posted to this thread so I got to find it!
@zeddicuss I never made the association for your handle with the wizard from Sword of Truth series, very cool:) Terry Goodkind and Terry Brooks are the only fantasy authors I read.
@bluejaunte I've definately wondered where that came from
@darwinsmishap I feel like you tempt fate with your history, using the crow as your symbol!!
Thanks everyone for sharing!
Particularly as he felt the need to lecture us. But a very enjoyable series, especially earlier on.
The thing is, we're all someone's child; we never stop being there child either.
... Mum was quick to point that out to me the other day.
I was playing Unreal Tournament with my daughters back around 2001 and we were making up our gamer names. Not sure how or why, but I came up with "Gogger" and they asked "What kind of name is that?"
I replied, "It's not a name, it's just a sound, a sound that you pronounce like "gogger"". And here I am today.
(I've since found out that apparently some French people have the name "Gogger", but oh well.)
Thanks for reviving this thread; reading through it was so incredibly fun!
Missuskisses was the name of my first level 60 character in vanilla WoW, aka the name I was called during raids in coms (usually shortened to "Missus" or "MK"), and it has become my gamer handle in more games since. I just picked the name because I like rhyming names, or names that have a fun sound to it. Not that interesting a story compared to some of the others here!
I didn't even notice I was being a necromancer... gawd, I suck at forums. Not everyone will be pleased. :(
Oh boy, at first I was AVXP, my company name Audio Visual Experiment Productions, but then people started calling me AVXP in threads.
That felt weird. So I went back to an old music production forum name I used to use... Griffin Avid. It was my magazine editor alias that allowed me to post and represent the brand without being too officially linked. It's also the name of the youtube channel for the magazine, which if you'd believe.....
YouTube was so NEW back then and I wasn't sure if I wanted something that might bomb associated (hey, I thought twitter wouldn't last either, lol) with my magazine so I named the Youtube channel after my screen name and NOT the magazine. It was so early in YouTube's history that I used to win badges for being the channel with the most watched views for the day and week. lol
I kept Griffin Avid as a screen name on every music production forum and eventually started making it a separate personality associated with the magazine.
People started calling me Griffin so it really stuck.
When I went back to music, I used it as my character's alias and in rap it stands for
Gravity Reduced Ion, Force Field inside a Neutron. No, that's really from a song.
AND THEN.....
I made a web series called....Mark of the Griffin....so we are really, really fixed on the Griffin thing.
That and also the Phoenix. Mythology and such.....
I always liked dragonflies, and was either Dragonfly (or later Dragonfly2004) since BBS days... And my first grandchild was born 21 years ago, so that must mean I'm at least, um... never mind
The "tiger" part of my username actually refers to thylacine, the allegedly extinct "Tasmanian tiger." I'm absolutely fascinated with them, as an actual species of animal, and as a mysterious ghostly cryptid. Anne is the name I could have had, if my family history was happier. (I was named in honour of someone, but I'm very uncomfortable with my legal first name.) Plus, my dear old Dad used to sing me this folk-song called "Pretty Little Anna" as a lullaby, when I was a little nipper. At one point in my early childhood, I think I believed that my name was Anna. x) However, I gave that name to one of my original characters, and claimed "Anne" with E as my own.
So long story short, I'm Anne who believes in "tigers."
Dazaholic for sure, but slowing down on spending in 2019, at least for a bit LOL.
Mine's a simple one, my real Name is Ron, been called Rono as a nickname since a kid, so I have Rono64, the 64 is my Birth Year.
Simple and boring.