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Feel free to add an an entry about your username below! | Feel free to add an an entry about your username below! | ||
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== | ==[[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]]== | ||
Because that's my real name. I thought Redbrick was some email yoke - all else fails, I was getting a decent email address. | Because that's my real name. I thought Redbrick was some email yoke - all else fails, I was getting a decent email address. | ||
== | ==[[User:noelfitz|noelfitz]]== | ||
8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.) | 8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.) | ||
== | ==[[User:svan|svan]]== | ||
<u>S</u>arunas <u>Van</u>cevicius. First letter of name, then first 3 letters from surname. | <u>S</u>arunas <u>Van</u>cevicius. First letter of name, then first 3 letters from surname. | ||
== | ==[[User:fox_chic|fox_chic]]== | ||
Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :) | Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :) | ||
== | ==[[User:bilco|bilco]]== | ||
Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit | Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit | ||
== | ==[[User:art_wolf|art_wolf]]== | ||
Cool picture I have hanging up. Have had it for ages and its by Art Wolfe. | Cool picture I have hanging up. Have had it for ages and its by Art Wolfe. | ||
== | ==[[User:singer|singer]]== | ||
I was a singer in a band. The guitarist mocked me for being the singer by calling me "singer". The nickname stuck. Non-Redbrick people address me as singer! My 2nd choice username was "scano". | I was a singer in a band. The guitarist mocked me for being the singer by calling me "singer". The nickname stuck. Non-Redbrick people address me as singer! My 2nd choice username was "scano". | ||
== | ==[[User:shimoda|shimoda]]== | ||
It was a character in a book (Illusions by Richard Bach) I read during my formative years. Another rb user thought the description of the protagonist was suited to me so I nabbed the name. | It was a character in a book (Illusions by Richard Bach) I read during my formative years. Another rb user thought the description of the protagonist was suited to me so I nabbed the name. | ||
== | ==[[User:sandman|sandman]]== | ||
I didn't. It was assigned on the basis that a) I was asleep and b) I read comics, didn't I? Ironically, I hadn't read much Sandman at the time. | I didn't. It was assigned on the basis that a) I was asleep and b) I read comics, didn't I? Ironically, I hadn't read much Sandman at the time. | ||
== | ==[[User:lithium|lithium]]== | ||
Coz I like the sound of it. And coz it goes crazy when you put it in water. And not because of the Nirvana song. | Coz I like the sound of it. And coz it goes crazy when you put it in water. And not because of the Nirvana song. | ||
== | ==[[User:cammy|cammy]]== | ||
I was using it as a web handle long before I joined Redbrick. It comes from the name of one of my first roleplaying characters that wasn't just a bunch of stats. The name for that roleplaying character though, came from the computer game Streetfighter 2. | I was using it as a web handle long before I joined Redbrick. It comes from the name of one of my first roleplaying characters that wasn't just a bunch of stats. The name for that roleplaying character though, came from the computer game Streetfighter 2. | ||
Well actually cammy was my second choice. I would have liked to use The_Dead_One but that exceeds the 8 character limit. | Well actually cammy was my second choice. I would have liked to use The_Dead_One but that exceeds the 8 character limit. | ||
Revision as of 11:04, 24 August 2005
Feel free to add an an entry about your username below!
kpodesta
Because that's my real name. I thought Redbrick was some email yoke - all else fails, I was getting a decent email address.
noelfitz
8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.)
svan
Sarunas Vancevicius. First letter of name, then first 3 letters from surname.
fox_chic
Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :)
bilco
Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit
art_wolf
Cool picture I have hanging up. Have had it for ages and its by Art Wolfe.
singer
I was a singer in a band. The guitarist mocked me for being the singer by calling me "singer". The nickname stuck. Non-Redbrick people address me as singer! My 2nd choice username was "scano".
shimoda
It was a character in a book (Illusions by Richard Bach) I read during my formative years. Another rb user thought the description of the protagonist was suited to me so I nabbed the name.
sandman
I didn't. It was assigned on the basis that a) I was asleep and b) I read comics, didn't I? Ironically, I hadn't read much Sandman at the time.
lithium
Coz I like the sound of it. And coz it goes crazy when you put it in water. And not because of the Nirvana song.
cammy
I was using it as a web handle long before I joined Redbrick. It comes from the name of one of my first roleplaying characters that wasn't just a bunch of stats. The name for that roleplaying character though, came from the computer game Streetfighter 2.
Well actually cammy was my second choice. I would have liked to use The_Dead_One but that exceeds the 8 character limit.