[xi_hyperon]

Waht the ****ing topic says.

As for my unpronounceable username, I wanted something with an "xi" in it. Don't ask why because I don't know. The one I ended up choosing seemed as good as anything at the time. Where does your username come from?

[Krusty]

Umm ... look at the name, look at the sig. Nothing too complex in mine. Basically it boils down to the fact that I've used some iteration of the name since I began surfing in '94 or '95 (and I was really into the Simpson's way back then.) When I registered for these forums (over 4 years ago now ..whew, that's a long time) I was still on that kick.

edit: I'm a little buzzed too. Thanks for reminding me that I need to pop down to the store and pick up some more

[Yose]

Mine is homage to the first Mac I ever owned myself (had a IIc when I was young but it was my parents), the "Yosemite" line of G3's.. I was looking at it when I was trying to think up a username years ago and it's stuck ever since.

It's still in good use at a young club and I go update/maintain it whenever it needs some TLC.

**I am not drunk, tonight.

[sweatervest]

I'm a bit drunk too...I just like the word sweater-vest. No one can tell that I'm a girl, though, I guess it's a bit unisex...oh well.

[demograph68]

Mine has not much of a meaning. Besides "demograph" the "68" was just improvised.
Later on I would find it to be used by Ca$h.
How wonderful, huh?

[Yose]

I just like the word sweater-vest.

What about magical sweater-vests... I prefer those... The red sparkly variety that make clones enjoy my company.

[wataru]

Whee! I'm drunk too!

My username is my name from Japanese class in middle school all those many years ago.

[Krusty]

Originally posted by sweatervest:
I'm a bit drunk too...I just like the word sweater-vest. No one can tell that I'm a girl, though, I guess it's a bit unisex...oh well.

sweatervest sounds completely like a girls name to me (any polysyllabic word for an article of clothing is that way). Of course, my most prominent net name of the late 90's was ytsurk (krusty backwards). No one ever seemed to get that it was simply krusty in reverse and everyone thought I was a girl before they talked to me (shoulda seen it on IRC, all these pathetic dudes would swarm me immediately until they realized I was a guy)

[Developer]

Originally posted by Krusty:
Umm ... look at the name, look at the sig.

Same for me.

[Mr. Blur]

mine is a song by tom verlaine...always liked him, the song has a cool riff, and it rhymed with "obscure"

[ThinkInsane]

This was my desktop the day I registered. It's still one of my favorites.

[OptimusG4]

transformers and my g4

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by wataru:
Whee! I'm drunk too!

My username is my name from Japanese class in middle school all those many years ago.

Wow, Japanese... I couldn't even get a handle on French in middle school, or even now.

I wish I were good at languages.

BTW, my handle is my name (bet you couldn't figure that out... ).

[Krusty]

Originally posted by CharlesS:

BTW, my handle is my name (bet you couldn't figure that out... ).

Wow, never met anyone named CharlesS ... what's your last name ?

[sebastian haff]

Ever see "Bubba Ho-Tep" ?

[keekeeree]

I'm buzzin'...but nearly as much as I was hoping to tonight. I'm home WAY too early from the bars. Guess I'll have to tap that bottle Yukon Jack.

Anyway, username. It's a childhood nickname. Real name is Frankie, but my little brother, when we were real little guys, couldn't say Frankie, so he called me Kee. That grew into Keekee & eventually Keekeeree. Even after all these years, my mom still calls me Ree.

So, there you have it...

(now...where did I put that bottle of Yukon...)

[Nonsuch]

I'm sober ... god I suck.

My nick is the name of a pretty good XTC album, and is also a fairly memorable word that I can often still claim when registering in new forums and BBSes.

[dampeoples]

My last name is Peoples, dammit.

[thePurpleGiant]

I was originally 'PurpleGiant' here. Changed my email address one day, and it never let me login again.

'Hood - if you're in here, could you please reset my password on that account!

Reason for name: I'm not so good at making names. Listed random words through my head until one combo stuck.

Around '96 I was known as 'Jaffa' on the net, but after a while I found that a bit pansy.

[Ozmodiar]

My username and Location both come from the Simpsons as I am a huge fan.

[amsalpemkcus]

[11011001]

It means 217, which means absolutely nothing... it's not even significant in ASCII. It just looks random, and is my primary net alias.

[soul searching]

I'm doing some soul searching and have been for a while.

Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
....
Around '96 I was known as 'Jaffa' on the net, but after a while I found that a bit pansy.

Heh, you could say that about mine, and some people do .

[d4nth3m4n]

dantheman was taken, and i used to play a lot of games online (on top of being an aim fixture since about 96)

so there you have it

Dan.

[MindFad]

From a very old poem that I wrote, lost, and do not even remember anymore. Been using it a long time, though, and it feels like it still fits, so it stays. I like it, anyway; that's enough.

[Chemmy]

I used to listen to EBM and Industrial, so I used "Chemlab" as an online name.

It got lovingly shortened to Chemmy, and that's that.

[theolein]

Not being gifted with extraordinary amounts of creative fantasy, my nick simply means "little theo" in German, although I'm neither German nor little.

It's a bit like in English when one calls someone called John, Johnny.

[voodoo]

It means I can cast a spell on you.

... it is from the story about the Death, the Devil and the Alien - one of the two agents in the story is Agent voodoo.

[11011001]

Originally posted by soul searching:
I'm doing some soul searching and have been for a while.Heh, you could say that about mine, and some people do .

What does the equation in your sig mean? Is it some sort of mathematical truth or puzzle?

[Ghoser777]

Originally posted by 11011001:
What does the equation in your sig mean? Is it some sort of mathematical truth or puzzle?

e^(?i) + 1 = 0 is an equation that links five of the important mathematical constants in one equation. If I remember correctly from my diff. eq. class:

e^(ix) = cos(x) + isin(x)

So:

e^(?i) = cos(?) + isin(?)
e^(?i) = -1 + i*0
e^(?i) = -1
e^(?i) + 1 = 0

This formula almost miraculously holds under normal addition, multiplication, and exponential rules!

Matt Fahrenbacher

[nredman]

my name nathan redman

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Krusty:
Wow, never met anyone named CharlesS ... what's your last name ?

My last name is Srstka... now you know why I just abbreviate it to S! No one can spell it or pronounce it.

[The Ginger Rat]

The nickname of one of my dogs.

[Sherwin]

Back in the days when I started on Compuserve with a Psion 3a terminal and 2,400 modem, I needed a username for the chat rooms. It asked me for one quite unexpectedly and I couldn't think of anything.
There was an invoice from a local print company sitting on my desk: "Sherwin Rivers".

[Logic]

First four letters = My name

the extra c is there because of a number of reasons that I won't go into here......

[Phanguye]

phnaguye is the username of the cisco employee that compiled the cisco IOS that i learned on

[wang_himself]

Wang means Wang!

[Sealobo]

It doesn't mean anything.

But the correct pronunciation is seal-lobo, not sea-lobo.

[Oneota]

One time, at band camp (no, really!), some friends and I went into the commons area of the college that was running the camp (Luther College, in Decorah, IA). We didn't want to eat in the caf, so we looked around for an alternative. There was a little cafe/restaurant thing called "Oneota."

The name that I usually used at this time all over the 'Net was "Jawz," which was my initials (JAW) plus a "z". But I around this time, I was starting to get spam and wanted a username/email address that I could treat as a throw-away for various things. I registered [email protected] and started using it for stuff that I didn't care about.

Gradually, the Oneota username started getting used for more things, and Jawz started getting used for fewer. I don't have the hotmail address anymore, but I still use the username 'cause it sounds cool.

I later learned that Oneota is the name of a Native American tribe who once inhabited the north-eastern area of Iowa (where Luther College is situated).

[valeriam01]

Valeria Messalina was my name in latin class in high school (wow this makes me dorky) and i'm still a classics major, so it works I guess. But Valeria Messalina was married to Emperor Claudius, she was kinda a bitch (which i didn't find out until AFTER choosing the name), slept around the Roman imperial court and eventually was executed after Claudius discovered she'd been plotting to kill him. Whoops.

[GirlSplyph]

"Splyph" (Spliff) is my cat's name. I'm a girl. Kinda went from there.

[Zimmerman]

I picked my online alias way back in 2000 and have transferred it from forum to forum so peoples that read across the various ones I frequent will know it's me. Why "Zimmerman?
Well, I like the way it rolls off the tounge, its neatly abbreviated, "Zimm," and I wanted a letter towards the end of the alphabet. It has no personal meaning, though.

[boots]

Got the nickname in college because I wore boots most of the time. Not the pythons in my sig, but the brown ones hiding behind the longhorns on the left. Yes, those are my longhorns too. I have them mounted over the bar in my basement.

The quote in the sig is from the stage-show "Red White and Tuna" ... the third installment of the Greater Tuna saga....

[voyageur]

I love canoe-tripping. The picture in my sig is of a lake in Algonquin Park in Ontario. So I took the name voyageur, from the French-Canadian trappers and explorers who went all through the North Woods in their canoes.
Although someone more knowledgeable in French than I has told me the feminine form should be "voyageuse".

[D'Espice]

Back in the days when Final Fantasy VIII was brand-new, I used to have the nickname "Squall". But soon I realized that this nickname sucked so I's looking for something new, something unique.

So I came up with D'Espice, the first dungeon in Ultima IX Ascension (aaaah... what a great game) gave me the idea and I liked the idea of my nickname sounding kinda like "to despise"
But I don't wanted it to be that obvious so I "internationalized" (fancy talk for French ) it a little bit, changed the second s to c and that's the day ol' D'Espice was born.

[sweatervest]

Oooh magical sweater-vests! I don't have one. I want one! I do have a cute red one, though..

Originally posted by Yose:
What about magical sweater-vests... I prefer those... The red sparkly variety that make clones enjoy my company.

[dlefebvre]

Maybe my user name sounds a lot like my real name but it's not the case. It's random letters placed in a specific order that coincidentally spell my name. I guess I was lucky.

[Timo]

::sigh::
Timo
is
my
name
::sigh::

[mrfrost]

I once did not speak for over 3 weeks.
That is where I got my nick from.

[soul searching]

Originally posted by 11011001:
What does the equation in your sig mean? Is it some sort of mathematical truth or puzzle?

Basically what Matt said. The symbol "e^(ix)" is defined for any real x as "cos(x) + i sin(x)", where "i" denotes the imaginary number "square root of (-1)", and is known as Euler's formula.

e^(i pi) = cos(pi) + i sin(pi)
e^(i pi) = -1 + i * 0
e^(i pi) = -1

The last statement is my sig.

Also, by using simple trig you'll see that e^(ix) holds for products and quotients by simply writing Euler's formula in polar form, i.e., z=r*e^(ix). You can get some cool results but nothing cooler than the statement on my sig