What's your screenname mean?

[FreeXenon]

FreeXenon

FreeXenon comes from my time in the military. I was stationed on the USS Enterprise as a member of the Reactor Controls Division 22 from 1994-1998 (the tail end of Desert Storm). I was a 2 plant Reactor Operator.

[ as an aside, we missed 2 port calls to Turkey because of Sadam. I'm still bitter about it! =) ]

Envision you are on a late (22:00 - 02:00) watch with absolutely nothing happening - you are bored out of your mind and looking at dials, switches and gages that have not moved in several days. Your mind starts to wander and you look to to the other (Alpha Reactor Operator) and say we need to start a revolution. There is something horribly wrong here that needs to be fixed. A tragedy of epic proprtions. Xenon needs to be freed. Freed from the tyrannical oppression that is the reactor. He wrongly is imprisoned in the reactor and need to be set free.

You can here the chanting now "Free Xenon!! Free Xenon!!" picket lines starting to form.... riots happening on the docks as the military police start to puch the crowds back.

Xenon is a fission product poison that builds up during normal reactor operation. Some people had this as a screen saver for their PC's. It is just something that stayed with me. Strange enough I registered the domain name for a web developement business that I will start someday.
http://www.freexenon.com.

 

[howandwhy99]

howandwhy99 came about when I needed a handle for email acounts back in the 90's. I have a degree in Philosophy, so the hows and whys made sense. And 99 is just a really big number.

 

[devilish]

College nickname that went awry.

Sat around playing the "name game" at freshman orientation
with the guys on my dorm floor.
"Pick an adjective for yourself that begins with the first
letter of your first name." - so an adjective for Dave....

Dangerous? Dashing? Delightful? Delusional? Daring? crap ... all of them
sounded like potential trouble, especially if I was going to be
called this for a week. When it came my time in the circle,
I blurted out "Devilish" not because it was appropriate, but because
in was in my skull and I hadn't had time to process it.

Devilish Dave.

Later that night, the guys in my dorm looked out the window at the girl's
dorm (longingly) and saw me escorting a young lady back. Was just being a gentleman
to a friend -- nothing more --- but they said "Holy .o.o!!! -- he *is* Devilish!"

For the next 2 years, no one knew or could remember my last name -- they just called
me "Devilish Dave"

 

[Alhazred]

Abdul Alhazred (or al-Azrad), Lovecraft's Mad Arab who the original manuscript of The Necronomicon .

 

[derelictjay]

Back when I was createing my first email address (back in 1996), I needed a name, but Jason (which I guessed it would be) and several variations of that, were taken, and me hating numbers didn't want a string of numbers to remember. So I though of words that describe me, and derelict stuck out. Cause I always feel that I've been left behind and a bit of a loner (though those are far from the truth). I grafted jay (why not just "J" I'll never know) to the end of it, and it became my online name, I use it everywhere, as for some unknown reason it's quite unique.

 

[DaveMage]

Like many others here, I needed a screen name.

I was signing up for AOL back in 1993 or 1994, and wanted to use the name "Trekker" which was my username at the University of Florida.
(Yes, I was a major Star Trek geek.)

Anyway, that name was not available on AOL, so I looked to my D&D hobby for help. I decided on DaveTheWizard, but that, too, was already taken. DaveTheMage was also not available. DaveWizard was taken too, so, finally, I tried DaveMage - and, of course, it did work.

Now I use DaveMage for everything lest I forget my username.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Mine is the name of a Dwarven Cleric I played in a fairly short-lived campaign in college. One of the best developed role-play characters I ever had, even to this day. Whenever I played in that campaign, I had no problems jumping into his skin in terms of his attitude and speech pattern. The character was very memorable to my friends from college and after graduation, when I needed a name that my friens would recognize on IRC that is what I chose. I guess it has just stuck since then.

 

[jerichothebard]

Jericho is the name of an NPC in my game. He's a cleric.


Yup.

 

[JackGiantkiller]

i chose my user name for two reasons: My name is Jonathan, for which Jack is a nickname,

and I had hoped many people would recognize the reference. Jack the Giantkiller is of course the Cornish slayer of Giants, most often remembered because of Beanstalk fame, but there are many, many more tales of nimble Jack. He's an Archetype.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Kane Grundar was one of the first PC's I played to live past the 1st level (what can I say, the DM was a killer). He went on to be an NPC in a few games in the years to come.

Kane