username poll

after a question in ATA, I was curious about this

feel free to expound


MY DU USERNAME IS:

yes INDEED

eom

but I'm honoring/mourning someone else right now:P

and supposedly my parents used an Amerind/Native American source for the name but I have never found it.

was always in use. I love that it's your real name!

She is considered the "Shakti" (which means "energy") that pervades the universe(s), in Hinduism.

The Root word for Kali is "Kal/Kala" which means "Time" (by extension it also means death) and darkness.
Kali is thus "time" which cannot be defeated.

Kali is actually my first name. the a is pronounced like it would be in Spanish - ah rather than like the a in cat (English).

is also another name for......weed ;-)

I miss him every day

So my name is a blend.

:hi:

it has no resemblance at all to my real name.

Dozo yoroshiku !

the other one was named Freakshow so I thought Spazito was marginally better.

:rofl:

but it's the name I use everywhere on line. If you see Blue_in_AK posting anywhere, it's me.

http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/adams.html

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

...

This Monk had first gone wrong when it was simply given too much to believe in one day. It was, by mistake, cross-connected to a video recorder that was watching eleven TV channels simultaneously, and this caused it to blow a bank of illogic circuits. The video recorder only had to watch them, of course. It didn't have to believe them as well. This is why instruction manuals are so important.

So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that thirty-five percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke down. The man from the Monk shop said that it needed a whole new motherboard, but then pointed out that the new improved Monk Plus models were twice as powerful, had an entirely new multi-tasking Negative Capability feature that allowed them to hold up to sixteen entirely different and contradictory ideas in memory simultaneously without generating any irritating system errors, were twice as fast and at least three times as glib, and you could have a whole new one for less than the cost of replacing the motherboard of the old model.

That was it. Done.

The faulty Monk was turned out into the desert where it could believe what it liked, including the idea that it had been hard done by. It was allowed to keep its horse, since horses were so cheap to make.

For a number of days and nights, which it variously believed to be three, forty-three, and five hundred and ninety-eight thousand seven hundred and three, it roamed the desert, putting its simple Electric trust in rocks, birds, clouds, and a form of non-existent elephant-asparagus, until at least it fetched up here, on this high rock, overlooking a valley that was not, despite the deep fervour of the Monk's belief, pink. Not even a little bit.

Time passed.

the middle name of my nom de plume blended with my lucky number.

When my husband gave me a diamond bracelet for Christmas - I pegged us the RockaFowlers. It kind of stuck. Now I can't even say Rockefeller Center without thinking of RockaFowler Center!!

You don't have to call me 'Dr.'.

1976 is the year I went there.

"parsley" in Polish . . . but, according to the google translator, the word for "parsley" in Polish is spelled "p-i-e-t-r-u-s-z-k-a." Anyway . . .

:shrug:

I study Latin America and I'm a leftist. I am therefore a la izquierda, or to the left.

:rofl:

someone else used astral as their online alias. I forgot how it worked exactly but people in the workplace could type little notes to one another in the blackness of the screen. And if you had an alias, no one knew who you were, unless you told them. It's so long ago I am surprised how much I have forgotten about how it worked.

I thought astral was a pretty cool alias.

Still do, I guess, although I've never used it anywhere else before I came here.

Remember WANG? With all the KEWL little F-Keys and the nice green letters instead of blue? Well, somewhere in there, we could talk to each other. There was also the world's very first computer game, wait, were WANGS even computers? They had the humungous caves game, where all kinds of awful things could happen to you. I never got interested in any computer games that came after that. Oh, yes, it was called 'adventure -- humungous caves!'

Anybody else here old enough to remember that? :think:
We were the ones, who when the first home computers came out, never in a million years dreamed we would ever have -- or WANT -- a computer.

. . . And even before that there was . . . oh, wait, shut up.

(If you don't count the TI-99/4A)


It had a whopping big 40 Meg hard drive.

i remember caves!!!
used to play it at my BF's workplace in high school... ! on an old 'puter, didn't even know what kind it was...

For some reason my parents couldn't remember my name and would call
me every other sibling's name before they got to mine... but they could remember
Tesha - you see the name started out as "T-shirt" - and that's what I wore a lot...

Like having a name tag almost.

edit:

I think a lot of people get their usernames or parts of their usernames from things in books or movies or songs, etc.

as I'm sure ArthurDent is taken.

He was of Japanese decent and from Hawaii, if I recall correctly.

seems to be 2 - ArthurDent and ArthurDent42

Arthur Dent would be my first choice, Ford Prefect my two n d.

Maybe BabelFish?

I wish I knew what the guy who Arthur Dent thought ate his biscuits name was...

in Karuk; also PufPuf is an immortal in Karuk stories of creation that lives at Tishannik who makes the water clean and brings good luck (and love medicine.

23 is a RAW reference.

forgive this old stoner for thinking pufpuf meant something else:o

(and forgive my further ignorance as to what RAW is)

your meaning of pufpuf works for me too

A Dutch friend told me it was a slang for fart in Dutch lol

I use a lot.

Not very creative of me.

clapyourhandsandsayyeah

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But I'm too old and fat for that now. I still ride occasionally, just for fun.



edited becos i cannt speell :P

Mine is from being female and a veteran. I'd probably change it if I could.

When i was teaching in the early days of the internet, the college i was at provided AOL accounts for all of us. Everyone was assigned an email address that was ProfessorXXX. (With the X's being first, middle, and last intial.) So, i got that email address and stuck with it for around 20 years now.
GAC

which is Moon in English.

It was my favorite required reading book back in high school.

I thought it sounded better than my first callsign, "Itchy Click One-Six." :)

Several of his books are gritty far reaching science fiction along the lines of Blade Runner. In his sci-fi works, humanity has developed the ability to store the essence of a human being in a "cortical stack" implanted at the top of the spinal column. It essentially allows a human to store itself in the stack and if the body is killed, the stack can be implanted in a "shell" body to bring the person back to life (in a new body, often augmented by genetic manipulation). Needlecasting, specifically, is the ability to beam the information contained in a cortical stack to a body on another planet, allowing a person to travel from one planet to another by sending their stack into an awaiting body.

What sort of brain-damaged imbecile saddles a child with a name like GliderGuider?

So take that, Mr. and Mrs. Pudfucker...

:P

Here, look at this:

centaur
late 14c., from L. centaurus, from Gk. Kentauros, origin disputed. In early Greek literature they were a savage, horse-riding tribe from Thessaly; later they were monsters half horse, half man.

http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/KentauroiThessalioi.html

:hi:

Good things happened to me on these dates, my favorite place.

is Will.