User Name Origin/Backstory
#21
Posted 24 December 2013 - 04:00 PM
#22
Posted 24 December 2013 - 08:09 PM
My job was preparing barley grains for PCR (I occasionally got to run the PCR as well, but not often). As the proteins denature at room temperature, we kept the grains frozen at below -80C. I would fill up a little esky with several liters of liquid nitrogen, throw in a few dozen test tubes of barley grains, then take it to my desk and smash them in a mortar and pestle, using more N2 to keep them frozen. What I found while I was working is although I'd use gloves with the mortar and pestle, I'd often have a hard time opening test tubes with them so I'd scoop them out of the liquid with my bare hands.
Hence, nitrogen fingers.
My next job was working in a freezer in a supermarket so my hands really didn't catch a break until I graduated uni. It's a miracle I still have all my fingers, really.
#23
Posted 24 December 2013 - 08:44 PM
MudkipTheEpic, on 23 December 2013 - 11:33 PM, said:
However, the Epic part of my surname comes from when I was just a wee lad, and obsessed with the word "epic." I overused it so much it was starting to get annoying. When I picked this surname, I thought it would be funny to reference my past.
The "The" is just there because I needed to make my username make sense. MudkipEpic doesn't make much sense, now does it.
Mine, I'm not explaining. oeed, will you explain yours?
#24
Posted 24 December 2013 - 08:54 PM
nitrogenfingers, on 24 December 2013 - 08:09 PM, said:
awsmazinggenius, on 24 December 2013 - 08:44 PM, said:
http://www.computerc...post__p__157898
#25
Posted 24 December 2013 - 08:56 PM
oeed, on 24 December 2013 - 08:54 PM, said:
awsmazinggenius, on 24 December 2013 - 08:44 PM, said:
http://www.computerc...post__p__157898
EDIT: You can change your forum display name, however it will be recorded in a viewable but sorta hidden place that your name was once oeed, if you want to change it.
The link to do that hold be here:
http://www.computerc...rea=displayname
Edited by awsmazinggenius, 24 December 2013 - 08:59 PM.
#26
Posted 24 December 2013 - 09:52 PM
awsmazinggenius, on 24 December 2013 - 08:56 PM, said:
oeed, on 24 December 2013 - 08:54 PM, said:
awsmazinggenius, on 24 December 2013 - 08:44 PM, said:
http://www.computerc...post__p__157898
EDIT: You can change your forum display name, however it will be recorded in a viewable but sorta hidden place that your name was once oeed, if you want to change it.
The link to do that hold be here:
http://www.computerc...rea=displayname
Yea, I'll change when/if I change my MC name.
#27
Posted 25 December 2013 - 09:32 AM
oeed, on 24 December 2013 - 09:52 PM, said:
awsmazinggenius, on 24 December 2013 - 08:56 PM, said:
oeed, on 24 December 2013 - 08:54 PM, said:
awsmazinggenius, on 24 December 2013 - 08:44 PM, said:
http://www.computerc...post__p__157898
EDIT: You can change your forum display name, however it will be recorded in a viewable but sorta hidden place that your name was once oeed, if you want to change it.
The link to do that hold be here:
http://www.computerc...rea=displayname
Yea, I'll change when/if I change my MC name.
#28
Posted 25 December 2013 - 06:12 PM
#29
Posted 25 December 2013 - 08:01 PM
#30
Posted 25 December 2013 - 11:03 PM
So because of that, I was in a search of a new username.
One day when I was wearing a Nirvana t-shirt, I looked in the mirror and saw "Anavrin", and decided to go with that.
tl;dr, it's Nirvana backward.
Edited by Anavrins, 25 December 2013 - 11:05 PM.
#31
Posted 26 December 2013 - 12:03 AM
i use ikke106 as a second username when i need it though.
ikke is kinda a wordplay from the dutch word ik, which translates to "me". needless to say i was very young at the time..
whenever i need a "cooler" nickname for rpg's or whatever i just pick names from my favorite fantasy books (a song of ice and fire series, inheritance series, a wheel of time series)
#32
Posted 27 December 2013 - 11:33 AM
Well, on Minecraft, i was commonly known as Ratchet501, Ratchet because i was a huge fan of Ratchet and Clank (and i still am), and i have no idea what the 501 meant. But, after i logged into a server, i saw a Czech youtuber with the name MenT97. I really liked that name at the time, soo, with how "creative" i am, i changed it to RatcheT2497... Ha. Ha. Ha. *sigh*
#33
Posted 27 December 2013 - 11:35 PM
A couple years later, I made a steam account, but Wiiplay was taken. I then proceeded to try Wiiplay123! It worked, and that has been my username for everything ever since.
#34
Posted 08 January 2014 - 12:49 AM
The backstory to my username? It's what my little sister called me when she was around two or three. Guess it just has sentimental value. Most people tend to assume that I'm from Texas or something, which is not the case
#35
Posted 08 January 2014 - 09:45 AM
#36
Posted 09 January 2014 - 03:03 AM
I don't really remember how I came up with it. I was 14, at a public library (since the internet at home was Dial-Up at the time.) and I was making some account for a game website which i forgot. I'm pretty sure my older brother gave me the idea when I was there. It started as Rhyleymaster14 since that website made me use numbers (policies...), but later, when I made my steam account to play Counter Strike, it changed to just Rhyleymaster. And here I am today. Thanks 2003ish time when I made this name!
Edit: LOL Computer deleted the backstory!!!
Edited by rhyleymaster, 09 January 2014 - 03:08 AM.
#38
Posted 09 January 2014 - 07:49 PM
The first username is just the first three letters of my acutual name, Patrick. When I was registering an account for my first time, (When I was like 8ish) It required me to add in some numbers.I just picked some numbers, and decided to just press 456. Instead, I pressed 457, and I just kept it like that w/out noticing a day later.
My second username is just cause I got bored of the first username, and I wanted something new. This is the first username I thought of, so I just went w/ it.
The third username, Troll, is just me playing around. I was bored, and thought if there was a username 'Troll' taken on the forums. It seemed like it would, so I just checked for the heck of it by changing my username. It wasnt taken, so I just took it.
My 4'th username which most people on servers and skype refer to me today is Zambonie. I was just watching a random snapshot review for 1.3.2 by ChimneySwift(I think), He said something about zombies, which I think there more harder and faster. Then, Out of now were he was just playing around w/ them, and if im pretty sure, he mispronounced zombie. It came out something like Zambonie, And he said he decided to call them that casue it was a cool name, though never did. So then, when I joined my first CC server were I may change nicks in, Mudkips Old server, I wanted to change my nick from PAT457 to something else. I was comming along w/ ideas, And I thought Zombie. It looked and sounded to plain though. I remember then 'Zambonie', Which I guess I use. Every server Im on nowadays I have the nick Zambonie, And since im just used to using this nick alot, I might use it here
So that, is the backstory of my nicks.
#39
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