What Does Your Username Mean?

[Demsey]

lol! it was created in 2000 while i was away in college.

Your roomate was Chinese?

You mean, all this time your hobby was tooling around in Jules Verne's Time Machine, and yet you let Ubi head off to 1973 in his Franken "Way Back Machine" for that 6263 group buy in his protoype??!! Dude, that's just not cool.

[pollux1]

I haven't played CS in ages, lets get a team organised, if anyone can mod the players with diff watches i'm in like Flynn! Ps my nick is just a play on my name and some random sh!t!

[tomhorn]

Tom Horn was at times a Bounty Hunter, Apache Scout, Pinkerton Detective, and worked for cattlemen as range detective. In the Spanish American War with the Rough Riders, he played a large role in the capture of Geronimo. Tom Horn was hung in Cheyenne Wyoming in 1903, having been convicted of killing Willie Nickell, the 14 year old son of a rancher. At the time, it was widely believed he was innocent, and in 1993, he was found not guilty in a re-trial.

[Synaptic02]

i was 17 and my then band-mate was trying to come up with better names for our band (star three...what were we thinking...) and he was in some bio class at NU, so while reading his text book, he came across "synaptic," and threw it out there. we all liked it, and so we were all going to change our AIM names to be "synaptic01," "synaptic02," et cetera. well, me being the caring friend i am, knew his favorite number was two. so i called "synaptic02." he got [censored] off, never changed his name, and it's just been my default since then.

WAKE UP! that was TOO an interesting story!! ....jerks...

[ifly65]

I fly Radio Control Helicopters, born in '65. I also used to be the head painter for the news choppers owned by Heli Inc. East St. Louis (a fleet of 60 helis throughout the usa).

[iceberg1459]

i guess i have the most stupid one,

in registration screen i was thinking about user name and i picked the brand name of my jeans (i dont remember why, i must've thought it sounded cool )

but it was already taken so i added a random number, lol

(and i just remembered it was the number of my hotel room that holiday )

[adrenalin]

I am somewhat of an adrenalin junkie... I love anything that will make your heart beat stronger and faster!

-Good looking women

-Fast cars, planes, boats

-good old fashioned roller coasters

-endurance sports

I guess you get the idea...

-K

[poopypants]

oh sh*t! not again! oops!

[yt74]

Crimson Guards are the elite of Cobra's troops... and the Crimson Vanguards are the tough, armored variety!

(Im a bit of a GI Joe fanatic as I grew up with them)

Loves me some GI Joe, I am in the process of restoring my childhood USS Flagg for my son and I to play with!

[offshore]

Your roomate was Chinese?

You mean, all this time your hobby was tooling around in Jules Verne's Time Machine, and yet you let Ubi head off to 1973 in his Franken "Way Back Machine" for that 6263 group buy in his protoype??!! Dude, that's just not cool.

Only just spotted that Dems!

Back then, my av was a photo of an offshore race boat!

Changed it maybe 18months ago!

Dunno why now!

Offshore

[Demsey]

Yes I remember it well! It was a good one. I still have my red GT-40 avatar from RWG, but have retired it with that board..................

Funny how your opinion of a member, as you' learn them' will spark as you scroll down a thread and see the avatar. Some screen names and avatars remand a 'click'. Good stuff.

[wiseman]

My old hacking-nick....

[N8!]

Nathan - Nath - Nate - N8

[paseo]

It

[RobbieG]

G, Robbie G.

My Mother and you guys are the only ones who are allowed to call me Robbie. Everyone else calls me Rob, but never Robert or Bob. And G isn't the first initial of my last name. But where is the fun without at least a little mystery? I'd tell you what it does stand for , but then I would have to kill you - or at least soak your front door in hairspray and set it on fire.

But before you ask, I am an original "G", but not in the rap sense of the word. I hate rap music and I listen mostly to classical and real jazz. A kid who works for me likes rap and I put it in his contract that if I ever hear it in my office he is fired on the spot. I'm also old enough that the term gangbanging makes me think of stripper/porno chicks in LA when I used to be on the road alot - not street thugs with Glocks who sell crack...

[phaedo]

G, Robbie G.

But before you ask, I am an original "G", but not in the rap sense of the word. I hate rap music and I listen mostly to classical and real jazz. A kid who works for me likes rap and I put it in his contract that if I ever hear it in my office he is fired on the spot. I'm also old enough that the term gangbanging makes me think of stripper/porno chicks in LA when I used to be on the road alot - not street thugs with Glocks who sell crack...

So putting 1 and 1 together gets Robbie gangbanger?

As to mine, Phaedo is the name of a character from Plato, thought it sounded cool when I was studying philosophy

[jonthebhoy]

jon - John

thebhoy - Celtic FC supporters are known as the Bhoys.

Yeah..........at the time I was up all night thinking that one up!

JTB

[Demsey]

jon - John

thebhoy - Celtic FC supporters are known as the Bhoys.

Yeah..........at the time I was up all night thinking that one up!

JTB

I think I read that somewhere before, but when you first registered RWG, and your avatar was Pete in 'mid-air'. Then I thought 'bhoy' was a reference to "Bellboy"...............

I like that version better

Also from my private collection; here's an avatar for you or Don to consider. I always loved this pic;

had it as a poster above my kip through school, university, lost in some move somwhere..................I think it was a promotional poster for "The Kids Are Alright" ? Hmmmmm...........

[If you see Kay]

hmmmm..

LOL

[jonthebhoy]

Dems - Coincidentally I saw the boys on the 'Who Put The Boot In' tour in 1976 at yes you've guessed it Celtic FC Stadium.

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/who-ptbin-76-glasgow.html

I even had the 'Bellboy' programme until my first wife trashed it.

I love that poster of Pete as well. He new how to get that extra little something out of his guitars!

Ive got a good job

And Im newly born.

You should see me dressed up in my uniform.

J

I think I read that somewhere before, but when you first registered RWG, and your avatar was Pete in 'mid-air'. Then I thought 'bhoy' was a reference to "Bellboy"...............

I like that version better

Also from my private collection; here's an avatar for you or Don to consider. I always loved this pic;

had it as a poster above my kip through school, university, lost in some move somwhere..................I think it was a promotional poster for "The Kids Are Alright" ? Hmmmmm...........

[Demsey]

hmmmm..

LOL

I saw the boys on the 'Who Put The Boot In' tour in 1976

"When I was a boy everything was right

Everything was right............."

She Said, She Said

Lennon

And now, from 1968; The Rolling Stone Interview, I'd like to play;

All The Angels Come

It was due to happen because I was getting to the point where I'd play and I'd play and I mean, I still can't play how I'd like to play. Then it was worse. I couldn't play the guitar; I'd listen to great music, I'd listen to all the people I dug, time and time again. When the Who first started we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play, it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar. I knew the music, and I knew the feeling of the thing and the drive and the direction and everything.

It used to frustrate me incredibly. I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing whereas really it's just going to be picked normally. I'd hold my arm up in the air and bring it down so it really looked lethal, even if it didn't sound too lethal. Anyway, this got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger until eventually I was setting myself incredible tasks.

Instead I said, "All right, you're not capable of doing it musically, you've got to do it visually." I became a huge, visual thing. In fact I forgot all about the guitar because my visual thing was more about my music than the actual guitar. I got to jump about and the guitar became unimportant. I banged it and I let it feed back and scraped it and rubbed it up against the microphone, did anything, it wasn't part of my act, even. It didn't deserve any credit or any respect. I used to bang it and hit it against walls and throw it on the floor at the end of the act.

And one day it broke. It just wasn't part of my thing, and ever since them I've never really regarded myself as a guitarist. When people come up to me and say like "Who's your favorite guitarist?" I say "I know who my favorite guitarist is, but asking me, as a guitarist, forget it because I don't make guitar-type comments. I don't talk guitar talk, I just throw the thing around." Today still I'm learning. If I play a solo, it's a game to me because I can't play what I want to play. That's the thing: I can't get it out because I don't practice. When I should be practicing, I'm writing songs, and when I'm writing songs, I should be practicing.

I find it astounding and I find it hard to believe if anyone ever says that they rate me as a guitarist at all. Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation, I play what I want to play within my own restrictions. I like to play like (Steve) Cropper. I like to play simply and tastefully and when I make records at home, you know, I play simply and tastefully and I don't play like I do on the stage. I don't play big chords and I don't smash the guitar around. I just do the things which I feel are well within my capabilities as a rhythmic musician.

With the compliment I immediately think of the people I dig, someone compliments me and I think I must move the compliment around to somebody that I really dig like Hendrix and would say I'm nowhere near someone like that as a guitarist and so the compliment feels out of place. I think, "Well, okay the guy's not saying you're a good guitarist, he's saying what you play you put over well," or "What you want to put over comes out." If I look like a good guitar player it's because that's my whole thing, to look like I'm playing the guitar, but really I'm not.

Pete Townshend

I thought; "Right, I need a guitar and more importantly a leather jacket".

Edited January 26, 2009 by Demsey

[fat.tail.event]

Fat Tail Event...a lot of global economic events over the past trailing year have been classified as such. I spend a fair amount of my work time and personal time reading about these. Examining fat tail data alongside the fallacies associated with behavioral finance is terribly interesting to me (and not many others).

So a good layman's definition....Fat tails are basically a statistical distribution phenomena. Most people who are familiar with the well-known

[Demsey]

Examining fat tail data alongside the fallacies associated with behavioral finance is terribly interesting to me (and not many others).

The last eight years. And the next four. Starting on 9/11/01, you must be orgasmic. With regard.

As far as 'others'; on my satellite service, MSNBC and CNBC are juxtaposed. I wear out the <channel up/down> button and trade accordingly. I suppose I could as easily bounce the 'last' button and watch Bloomberg/Fox Business in the same manner, but the 'News Ho's' and 'Money Honies' on the aforementioned rate higher on the 'Erector Scale'. Socio/Economic Geo/Political de damned.

Besides, everyone on Fox is hoping Obama's policies will fail, but, what is it now? An unprecidented 5 executive orders within a week, much less 30 days, without the benefit of the three legged legislation stool? So yeah, who could blame them, but MSNBC is Obama's Power Cheer. I really don't care, to be honest, if his fiscal success means I can reallocate my portfolio to a good growth target (70/30) from my current allocation (41% cash, 59% equities since December '07) I can live with Barak's likeness on the new nickel and GITMO going away. But how long before the 'dirty bomb' goes off in Chi' Town after they let the roaches out of the hotel? That's what I really want to know. I mean, the Middle East is the constant. GDP? It's such a variable you really hate to enter it into the equation. Financially speaking.