[PencilWntGtU2TheMoon]

Post what your nick means.

Mine is about a Russian aerospace Engineer I worked with.

I have to give some background since I will mention a racial group. And maybe it will let you know something about me if you are interested.

He was the nicest guy, friendly and positive in every way. He was also a Jew, which gets him points with me. Outside of my parents, I was raised by Jews in the 70s. And they were humble, gracious, and great people. So, it may be racist to appreciate Jews, but I won't change good the lessons I learned in my life to suit anyone.

Also, he didn't trust Jews and spoke poorly of them. LOL, that's like 3x points with me. I'm sorry, I'm forever stuck in my retarded development to the psychological age of 2nd grade, and just like to laugh at anything bad or silly. I just want to laugh.

Incidentally, other than lawyers or accountants, I've only knowingly worked with two Jews. The second Jewish Engineer also had great disdain for Jews. Which I found amusing, but also sad in his case. He was a little older (and married to a Jew) so it wasn't quite as funny as the young aerospace Engineer. I love funny conflict and people acting badly, but bitterness and hate is not my thing.

Back to the Russian. He loved to tell anecdotes about Russian Engineers. Half of them were making fun of Russian Engineering projects, and the other half were equally criticism of US Engineers with counterpoints from Russian endeavors. This was his favorite. (accent by me)

"In USA, NASA spends millions of dollars to create Space Pen to write upside-down and in zero gravity of space. Years of development and millions of dollars. In Russia, we just use pencil and no problem! "

To which, I reply, here it comes, "Well I guess pencil won't get you to the fucking Moon, will it? "

I hope you enjoyed that and learned something about me and my friends.

[Torx]

imma keep this simple. unlike the above.

im facinated by tamperproof screws. and torx just sounds fucking cool.

[PencilWntGtU2TheMoon]

Yeah, sorry, I can't give the guy enough props without describing him, and the Jew thing requires background as disclaimer.

[msgwtco]

Mine is actually named after an Internet Service provider

Michael Steven Garboski - Woodbury Telephone Communicaitons

They got bought out by SNET and then by SBC and now AT&T.

[MSP]

MSP = Mr Smarty Pants.

[Bear]

Family name my mom used to call me. Oso = Bear

[Scooby]

scooby is old and outdated, but ive been around for awhile. It was just a nick I picked as a kid.
After that it went to great white because my last name is great white, and now I've been using Braaains a lot along with a picture of me as a zombie.

[ivwshane]

ivwshane: i=first initial, vw=I like air cooled vw's, shane=last name.

[MovingTarget]

Mine should be pretty easy to guess.......

[Miller]

mine is my last name, Adam Miller

[gB dAvId x]

gbdavidx. I stole mine from a local dj who went by dj david x back from when I was in High School and have used it ever since... Just changed it around a bit, gb = granite bay (the town I live in) and david is my real name, just left the X on the back of it... Kind of boring. Funny enough, he still is on the local radio station that I listen to

[Coleman]

Like Miller, it's my last name.

Michael Coleman

[Jackalope]

[Mr. Ali]

I like the sound of Mr. Ali. Ali is obviously my first name. Well, my legal first name is Alireza but no one calls me that.

[GOG427]

Gog=God Of Games
I won 7 championships when i was in my teens, everything from arcade fighters to Nintendo games. I won a total of $65,000 playing and winning at video games not bad. I started when i was 11 till i was 19.
I needed a 3 letter name for quake tourments and arcade wins and thats what 11 year came of with.

[Mince]

Very cool GOG...

Bear... she still calls you that.

Mine is just the alias I use when I game. Have had it since CS 1.5 came out!

Mince meat!

[OcTaNe91]

octane91 as in the fuel (kinda self explanitory)

Ali i was guessing you chose that name because you are a fan of the Ali G show.

[freeridemusik]

Good thread...

Uhh, free ride is based on the style of mountain biking I like (even though I barely try it), and musik is music, because I play bass and love music.

Really it was my mtb forum user name and I was too lazy to change.

[djsoulriot]

Well i bought turntables about 6 years ago and came up with that name. I think i wanted to use the word turmoil but i guess riot sounded better to me at the time.

djsr turned into my web alias

[mistawiskas]

Mine has a story connected to it.
I've shared it before, but don't mind throwing it out there again.
I came to a fork in the road of my life in late in 1993. I got royally screwed over
in a make believe marriage and lost everything of value. The roadmap went like this:
if I took the path to the left, it would lead to homicide. If I took the path to the right,
it lead to removing myself from society and away from the object of the rage I felt.
My mind was filled with premeditation and visions of large caliber rounds entering and exiting grey matter. I chose the path to the right and scrounged up enough cash to get a camper for my really old truck and decided to live as a hermit in the cascades, siskyous and coast range og the pacific northwest. it was either remove myself from society, or do something that'd force the state to remove me for life. I had the fortune of having an insurance settlement come through. it paid 155 bux a week for nearly a year. I was set. I always wanted to know what it would be like to live in the wilderness for a year, and if I could handle it. I was to find out through a chain of events that had me believing life was over........I was wrong about it being over. it was about to start....really start.
My home for a year:





(No, Torx, you don't get to see the "money shot" )

Anyhow, I was settled in at a cool spot in the pacific coast range, at or near the 4000'
level, taking a dip in a crystal clear 5 foot deep pool of a creek, when I heard something I rarely heard. A vehicle coming up the mountain. 20 minutes later a jeep wagoneer pulls
onto the access road the lead to my camp. It had a small family ofthree: a dad, mom and (I'd guess" a four-five year old) little girl. I hadn't shaven in a few weeks and looked rather shaggy. The little girl asked me a question and called me mist-a-wiskas (spoken exactly as spelled) That little girl's words rang in my head for the rest of the my stay in the wilderness, I'll never forget.

My brief, one year stay in those mountains, the freedom, the epiphanii, the experiences, proove to change my lkife as nothing else in this universe could have. It showed me that a negative turned positive and I came away with a new understanding of all that is. i'll never forget that little girl's uttering: mist-a-wiskas.

[mattdev]

Matt Devincenzi

Clever, I know.

[Achilles]

I picked Achilles back when I played Halo 1 with all my friends. They'd always tell me that I could survive *exaggeration* 50 rockets to the head, but I'd die from like a plasma pistol to the foot. So, I thought it was funny, and anytime someone would say "DIE ALREADY!" I'd nonchalantly tell them "Aim for the heel" because Achilles had the heel as his weakness. So I picked that name, and it stuck ever since.