I'm just curious. What was everybody's inspiration for their screen names? I chose Oxygen because I had been listening to the song "Oxygene". Inhaling an oxygen mixture is also one of my favorite hobbies. I do it all day, every day. I can't live without it. :D

No inspiration here. It's just the reply that came out while registering here at Exosci. Maybe it was a Freudian slip or somethin'.

Received a dragon from a friend ...
Decided to name her Chagur (The Golden One) ...
Shared custody with the friend who gave her to me ...
Stolen from friend's office ...
Missed ...

Decided to adopt 'Chagur' as my 'nick' in remembrance ...

Well

- When I was in high school (Swedish Gymnasiet) I spent a lot of time drawing, painting and other aesthetics. One of my teachers told me I couldn't sign my creations with my real name so I choose the name Helikopter (Swedish for chopper), for spite.
- This developed into Helig Koppeter (translates approximately to Holy Koppeter).
- When later turning to the Internet I still hold the name Helig Koppeter, but no one gets it, hence I changed it to Holy.

Plain and no mysteries, just a bizarre joke turning alias.

Delete

It's hard to spell in game and out game. That's why I picked it. :D

Odin was the name of my last dog,he died about 5years ago.
I have another dog now just as lovley,but I still miss him.
:( :(

From my site:


<CENTER>Well there isn't much to tell... My ID was created in the Autumn of 1997, a mixture of being called a couple of times Stryder for walking in strides, and Unknown just to fillout online forums with something for the Surname.

I placed the two together to make Stryderunknown which makes it a unique identifier in comparison to just calling myself Stryder.
(Although people have been known to call me that IRL)</CENTER>

Also Shrike seems to have developed the Petname Stryde :D

I admittedly have a few other pseudonym's over the net. Some I've moved away from because of a complex spamming war that someone instigated (I use to help a Free Virtual Server company remove child/Normal pornography and warez from their servers. Which I think some Brazilian hackergroup didn't like, thus the increase in spam.)

I use my real name in other boards, but I'm an atheist, so on this one, I decided to just come out and say it!! the name Godless, lets any one dealing with me know right away my point of view on the philosophycal battle of theists and atheists. I've seen "dogon" which if you read it backwards it reads "no god" but I've seen it before, it's someone else's name.

This name has such a nice meaning that it means "RAY OF SUNLIGHT"

IN India almost each state has its own language.So we fail to communicate in their language in that perticular state.But HINDI is our national language.Everyone knows it.
In hindi the name KIRAN is given to girls.So many people wonder at this name knowing that im a boy.The heroines of movies hold this name amd my friends used to tease me.
But in MARATHI (my mothertongue nad official language of stae of Maharashtra) kiran is masculine noun.
The reason that now I feel proud of my name is a lady holding name 'KIRAN BEDI'. She is now my idol.
Her autobiography titled 'I DARE' is now my favourite.I am going to write her a letter about entering bureaucracy.
So she is 'kiran bedi',
and i am 'kiran aghor'.

I have absolutely no imagination.

Love

Teri

Is given to me by my love. :)
I use it on all boards I visit, and also as my artistic name.

Sanskrit AVATARA ("descent"), in Hinduism, the incarnation of a deity in human or animal form to counteract some particular evil in the world. The term usually refers to these 10 appearances of Vishnu: Matsya (fish), Kurma (tortoise), Varaha (boar), Narasimha (half man, half lion), Vamana (dwarf), Parasurama (Rama with the axe), Rama (hero of the Ramayana epic), Krishna (the divine cowherd), Buddha, and Kalkin (the incarnation yet to come). The number of Vishnu's avatars is sometimes extended or their identities changed, according to local preferences. Thus, Krishna is in some areas elevated to the rank of a deity, and his half brother, Balarama, included as an avatar. One formulation of the doctrine is given in the religious poem the Bhagavadgita, when charioteer Lord Krishna tells Arjuna: "Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness then I send forth Myself. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for the establishment of righteousness, I come into being from age to age."
This is from "britannica":)


At first I was very surprised that you call these little pictures avatars. They were in no way connected with the choice of my nick.
This is my web nick, my friends call me sniper, but it would be too long to explain.
I chose AVATAR because I like the meaning and I would have no objection to be a real one;)

from another of my posts-


The thought that you are immortal takes away a lot of worries from you. my nick is avatar - it by itself explains a lot.
I have always dreamed about living in deep future, and to have witnessed the ancient times of our civilization

"When you are flying, everything is all right or it is not all right. If it is all right there is no need to worry. If it is not all right one of two things will happen. Either you will crash or you will not crash. If you do not crash there is no need to worry. If you do crash one of two things is certain. Either you will be injured or you will not be injured. If you are not injured there is no need to worry. If you are injured one of two things is certain. Either you will recover or you will not recover. If you recover there is no need to worry. If you don't recover you can't worry."


http://www.todo-aviones.com.ar/ingles/spitfire/spit29_small.jpg


"While men are decent to me I try to be decent to them, regardless of race, colour, politics, creed or anything else", asserted Biggles curtly.
"I've travelled a bit, and taking the world by and large, it's my experience that with a few exceptions there's nothing wrong with the people on it, if only they were left alone to live as they want to live." - Major James Bigglesworth DSO

Biggles: What does your post have to do with Oxygen's question? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Screen name inspiration?

Well, there was this radioactive spider that bit me as I was standing on Krypton and I found that I had superhuman powers as a result....

More dull. Expatriate in strange land who is rather vociferously pro-Canada in a tongue-in-cheek sorta way. Colleagues thus chose monicker for me...

I created mine in combination with my signature page. Basically I was trying to imply I am on a continual search for myself....whatever that means:D

Originally posted by Chagur
Biggles: What does your post have to do with Oxygen's question? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


Well, Chagur, I wasn't sure how popular the writing of Captain W.E. Johns was in the US and the rest of the World.

Biggles.. a man of true grit and honour.... the true English gentleman. OK, OK! ... I had big ears in elementary school... so I looked like a Sopworth Camel! Happy now? ;)

That was actually quite funny. Thanks!

Damn that subtle British humor ... Too bad you're not an Aussie, Biggles ... Guess I'm due a couple of weeks leave to get the egg off my face (again).

But seriously ... doubt that Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth, D.S.O., D.F.C. is too well known this side of the pond. Thanks for the reply. ;)

Cris is my real name, but I have two other aliases at sciforums, can you guess who else I am?

I also describe myself as a sciforums sophomore. I joined sciforums on 1/1/2000, yes, the first day of the millenium. I'm here to learn and this is nearly the end of my second year. In a few days time I can become a junior.

I'm averaging around 12 posts per week and that reflects about as much time as I can spare away from my work, I wish I had more time, Oh well.

My avatar is Thumper the rabbit. Rabbits are my favorite animals. About 10 years ago my three daughters and I built an artifical rabbit warren covering about a third of an acre of the land we had. The area was well fenced and protected. We then studied in detail the social habbits and activities of around 100 rabbits. I know a lot about rabbits but never found the time to write a book on the subject.

Thanks for asking.
Cris

I guess I missed this one till Cris brought it to the forefront. My profile pretty much explains it all. What would you use as a designator for wet1 other than a fish? The title pretty much reflects both my tendancy (curious) and the ability of the fish to wander over a large area though lots of fish are territorial and keep to one area.

I must give all the credit to......my parents, doh!

oh well, maybe I'm not as creative as I used to be but hey, I'm tired of people "stealing" my screen names and since hardly anyone uses their real name, I figured...why not? :p

fluxnumen= lucidly experiencing the indwelling divine spirit

I made up the word for a poem I wrote, and have always liked it.

Its my name =D

My name here is Dreamsa: :)
I think dream is a grand word and also everyone got their dreams and me too!
sa=two favourites words of me, something link to my real name, also it means San Antonio Spurs, my favorite NBA team!

TIM DUNCAN
:) :) :) Best Player!!! :) :) :)

I chose the name Robert Theodore Bundy because it resembles the name of Serial Killer Ted Bundy (Theodore Robert Bundy) And he is my #1 rolemodel/hero.

Robert Theodore Bundy?

I'm probably falling into a trap here, but I'll ask anyway - will you tell us why Ted Bundy is your number 1 role model?

:confused:

Originally posted by Robert Theodore Bundy
I chose the name Robert Theodore Bundy because it resembles the name of Serial Killer Ted Bundy (Theodore Robert Bundy) And he is my #1 rolemodel/hero.

rotflmao!

:rolleyes:

Chagur,looks like another job for your German Shepard round at Robert Theodore Bundys place!
He might F*%k some sense into him!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

First things first: Chagur--the bright side is that you don't have to worry about breakfast ;) At least you bother to clean up afterward; look what happens to me, tracking yolk from topic to topic.

Regarding the Tiassa: a tiassa is a mythical cat-like creature. Specifically, it is a large cat with bat's wings and I can't give you much of a physical description since I haven't much more like that. However, a Tiassa is a Dragaeran (elven) house of society, one of seventeen in the novels of Steven Brust, the most prolific name in my limited fantasy fiction collection.

It would be silly of me to propose that anyone read eleven novels in order to understand the nature of the handle. But there are nine (I think ... Taltos, Yendi, Jhereg, Teckla, Phoenix, Athyra, Orca, Dragon, and Issola) in the Vlad Taltos cycle, which reads better than you'd imagine for fantasies about a human assassin in an elven world. In these, the central Tiassa is a somewhat shadowy figure; you don't see him until the fourth novel, and you rarely see him at all. Yet there are enough hints to his character that by the time the Khaavren Romances came about, readers pretty much welcomed this exposition. The Romances follow that very Tiassa, named Khaavren of Castlerock, through the Dragaeran empire and document his rise through the imperial Phoenix Guard from landless nobility to, eventually, Brigadier of the Guard. Though I'm not much on military ideas, Khaavren's personality is what makes him such a vital figure; even as a soldier with ambitions, he still follows the underlying notions of what is right and wrong: simply "taking orders" does not suffice. Two thousand pages of serial fantasy and a thousand pages poking Dumas provide remarkable insight into this character and, frankly, I think he's great. While I encourage people to read these books in general (especially the Romances, though the Taltos cycle fosters a sense of narrative familiarity that contributes to the story's attractive force), it's silly to advise that one do so just to understand a handle. However, beyond the briefest sketches, it is impossible to summarize that many pages of exposition in a reasonable post.

Anyway, I've been through this before, and while I'm always happy to put my two cents in about tiassas, I figure those of you who have read this bit before are probably getting sick of it. Suffice to say that the following websites are convenient references:

* http://www.dreamcafe.com Brust's website
* http://www.omnium.com record label of Boiled in Lead, a band with which Brust has associations)
* http://www.google.com/search?q=steven+brust a Google search for Steven Brust ... that should do it
* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/107-8037326-0182931 an Amazon search for Steven Brust; there are text samples available for To Reign in Hell (unrelated to the topic at hand but worth its own discussion someday), Phoenix Guards (first of the Khaavren Romances), Dragon (Taltos Cycle), Five Hundred Years After (second of the Romances), Orca (Taltos Cycle), Agyar (vampire novel), Jhereg (Taltos Cycle), Freedom & Necessity (Victorian epistemological novel, Hegelian fantasy; written with Emma Bull), and The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (his most orthodox setting, and most personal exposition). Since I've just listed 9 of his 18 novels including those less relevant to the present discussion, let me please plug Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille, a classic sci-fi romp.

But I could literally feed this information all day; it's the most cohesive set of influences in my pop-culture literary streak--sure, Bradbury can bury him, but honestly, what else can make me want to spend vacation time in Minneapolis in winter?

But there's some explanation of the name. Believe me, I love to push this little corner of my Universe; thanx for the nifty topic.

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

Blitz, from Quada's second litter (they even have rules for naming registered
'Schaferhunds' in Germany), is long gone odin. Decent companion though a bit
nuts at times ... maybe that's why I liked him so much ... but I don't think he
would be nuts enough to want to have anything to do with that character.

Mother always told me to pick-up after myself, tiassa. Guess I did learn a few
things from the old girl.

Take care all. ;)

Why did I choose this name? Because Ted Bundy is just so handsome and smart. He's very clever and he is a pathological liar. It's not because he is a killer. HE is just so sexy in that suit and he is good at escaping from prison. Women loved him and I wish I had the same personality as him. He's just so wholesome and perfect.

Everyone needs a role model. I suggest that every single person on this forum get one. It will change your life.

Actually don't you think it is kind of sad that there are so many men who prey on women and get away with murdering them?
I've been doing a lot of thinking on this and now I can understand how hard a womans life can be at sometimes and in all fairness I think women should be able to get away with murdering men every now and then. That will just make up for all the bad things men do to women. That sounds fair.

For my daughter's twelfth birthday I gave her a neat little double-edged
dagger with a sheath that strapped to her thigh and told her to learn how to
use it because I never wanted to hear that she'd been raped and couldn't prevent it.

Well, she never got raped, but it sure freaked out her mother. Oh well, maybe that's
one of the reasons the marriage lasted only twenty-one years.

BTW The daughter is a Deputy Sheriff, has been for quite a few years.

Take care. ;)

I've read a few of your other posts - I won't go into the links becasue I'm afraid of what I might find - and you really are freaking me out.

What are you all about?

Is it possible that underneath all this stuff you're saying, you are a nice person? or am I right to be afraid of you?

Chagur,

You are priceless. I didn't do the knife thing but my 15 and 17 year old daughters are naturals with 45 calibre semi-automatics. And that definitely freaks out their mother. My 19 year old daughter can't deal with guns but is very effective at kick-boxing and just happens to be on the front-page of our local newspaper today.

But you beat me, or did I beat you, my marriage only lasted 18 years.

Take care
Cris

.45's are pretty big carry weapons for women. I'd suggest a .38 Auto, preferably
a Walther PPK in stainless steel, carried with a Glasser or Hydoshock in the
chamber and six full-jacked in the clip. At close range that combo will take care of
just about anything on two, three*, or four legs.

Take care. ;)

*Don't forget those little old men using canes. :D

I'm willing to bet you're just going for shock-factor here, but if you really want to be like your role-model, Ted Bundy, remember that he's dead. Maybe you could start there and work your way backwards?

I know, I know. Not very kind of me at all. So what?

(I know, if I didn't want to know, I shouldn't have asked! Fact is, it's fascinating seeing where everybody got their names from, regardless of if it's something really meaningful or just an attempt to yank chains. Keep talking, folks!)

from an online latin translator it means darkness ive had this name since about 2 months into my freshmen year of highschool(last year:P) i think its cool and if the translations not right well oh well its my name now. and it has lots of variations..acerbicrook,acerbianrook, etcetra... my email is acerbichumor@hotmail.com hehe

Chagur,

My younger two live in the UK so they aren’t permitted to own guns anyway let alone carry them around. When they visit me here we head for the shooting range.

And yup .45s are on the heavy side for the kids. The 9mm Glock was the most appropriate. My favorite is still the .357 magnum revolver; I seem to get better accuracy at distance with that. The .44 magnum I find gives too much kick, hurts my hand, so not so much fun.

But my daughters are all pretty rugged, they know where to kick and they aren’t the screaming types and don’t panic easily. That might not be enough in a real bad situation, but where the younger two live in the UK the risks are very low. And I think we are Ok here in Cupertino since we are next to Sunnyvale which was voted the safest city in the USA in 1998 (I think). And my 17 year old doesn’t hold back if she is pissed at something, she punched out a rival earlier this year who was messing with her boyfriend. I hate to think what she might do to a real menace. Funny thing is that she is the artist in the family.

Cris

The 9mm Glock is a decent weapon, and reliable. Guess I've carried my
Walther for so many years I'm sort of partial to it. Besides, its got decent
lines :) Have two, the 38 Auto for carry, the 22 for practice. Don't abide
with the idea of carrying and hardly, if ever, practicing.

TaKe care ;)

I grew up listening to the Lone Ranger on the radio.
I follow his pattern in my life as much as possible....
do good, don't get too involved & leave quickly when
the job is done.

I loved your reply to Bundy :D :D :D
Cracked me up!

Keep it up
Cheers,
Teri

Orthogonal comes from my interest in the orthogonal functions of mathematics. But in general, I try to remind myself to think orthogonally when the more straight-forward methods fail to provide an answer.

Michael

Your post intrigued me. It sounds like something really interesting that I should have heard of by now. I have never heard the term 'orthogonal' in my life, so please forgive my ignorance. I tried to do a search but the net has slowed down to a snail's pace and I'm not very patient today.

If it's not too much trouble can you explain what it is in layman's terms? From the web sites to choose from it seemed to have more than one function.

Cheers,
Teri

Hi!
Do your name has something to do with the orthogonal matrix?;) This is the only term about orthogonal that I have heard of.
:)

Agree, but then I found this. Might want to check it out:
<a href=http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/orth/home.html><font color=red>An Unusual Computer Language</font></a> ;)

Terri2
Might want to check out: <a href=http://www.mapleapps.com/powertools/linearalgebra/html/Matrices-Unit17.html><font color =red>orthogonal matrices</font></a>

Hello Teri, Dreamsa, and Chagur,

If only you could have seen my face when I read that someone actually wanted to talk about orthogonal relationships with me! Thank you for such a nice Christmas present, though I promise to try and not make you sorry you asked :)

"Orthogonal" is a merely a fancy way of saying, "at right angles to". Life is simpler in mathematics when relationships are orthogonal. I'm sure you remember Pythagorean's Theorem from geometry: The sum of the squares of two legs of a right triangle, are equal to the square of the hypotenuse. Notice the qualifier of this theorem is that two legs must be at right angles, or orthogonal to each other. Mathematics is cumulative from the bottom up. The most advanced concepts rest directly upon the most basic concepts. Curiously, in math one never outgrows the use of Pythagorean's simple theorem. It keeps popping up everywhere. We can think of the two legs of a right triangle as orthogonal vectors. In linear algebra we can think of an orthogonal matrix. Thinking a bit more abstractly, we can form an analogy between orthogonal vectors and orthogonal functions to arrive at some very exciting ideas. But again, they all in a sense rest on the idea that a^2 + b^2 = c^2

Joseph Fourier's celebrated series are orthogonal functions. A Fourier Series (or Fourier Transform) is analogous to a prism used to separate white light from/into its constituent colors. Aside from the obvious beauty of Fourier's ideas, they have become veritable workhorses in modern communication technology, to mention only one of the many applied fields.

Various series of orthogonal polynomials (Legendre, Tchebyscheff, etc.) may represent solutions to differential equations, or they may be used to approximate functions.

Due to the ubiquitous connectivity of mathematics, the study of any one of these fields might keep an intelligent mathematician busy for years. I suspect if one were clever enough, one might begin at any arbitrary starting point and arrive at any mathematical destination. In other words, the New England farmer's advice that, "You can't get there from here", doesn't appear to be true in mathematics. When you pull on a single thread you sense a three (or more!) dimensional network of threads is quivering in response. By the way, it's of no concern to me that any of the mathematics I enjoy has any practical use. It's all just very concise poetry to me.

Most likely, an engineer spun off the notion of "orthogonal thinking" from mathematics. Engineers have an exquisitely inventive way with language and metaphors. To think "orthogonally" is to literally: approach a problem from a right angle. A similar cliché from engineering is, "To think outside the box". In other words, uncommonly clever solutions usually do not result from common approaches. I have to specifically demand my that mind think originally for each new problem, otherwise it runs along in its usual wheel ruts. Strange that I can't simply keep it tuned to the orthogonal channel?

I hope this was of some use to you. Gosh, I really thought no one would ask :)

Happy Holidays,
Michael

What flipped me was after having read, imagined, and enjoyed:
I usually work alone in a small television transmitter hut located on top of Mount Mansfield in Vermont. But this morning my wife is here with me on top of the mountain. At the moment she's making an apple pie for our Christmas dinner. Bach's Christmas Oratorio is playing on the radio. The sun is reflecting brilliantly off the snow and Ravens are flying across the window in front of my desk. I don't think life could be better than it is this morning. I hope your Christmas is as happy! Was to read your post indicating a strong interest in math. Decent!

Have a great New Year ... and many more.

orthogonal...
Till now do I realize that orthogonal means at right angle to.
I learnt some Fourier Series in my course and I do not realize there is such a meaning in it.
I only know that there is a series and I do not know how it is obtained or what is its use!;)

Chagur...
The orthogonal matrix site is good better than the computer one as I know little about programming.
:rolleyes:

...it's my online alias; beautfiul things can come from simple things. Not sure how I started ususing this, but I was quite upset to find out that it was the title of a Jet Set Satellite song, which I refuse to listen to.

I wrote a poem about it once, but I can't seem to find it.

Love... Is it realistic or fake? Maybe it's
just a figment
of our imaginations?
Maybe it can be explained scientifically; is it
like the air we breathe?

Does it come and go as it
pleases? Or maybe as WE please it, conciously
or by subconcious. What about the times
one can't
find..

.................................................. ....................it

but knows
it is there? Maybe sometimes,
you can see it, but dismiss is as worthless,
like

a

tinfoil star

[f] is as close an approximation of an F in a box as i can get on a keyboard, which is how i sign my name (for non governmental things). comes from my name being Frazer Box.

I chose my name here for reasons of consistency.

My Avatar is a spinning thing which I thought looked pretty good - I wanted an animated one, but few animated files on the web meet the size constraints here. I wasn't keen on playing around with editors trying to make my own picture, so I *ahem* borrowed this one.

My title is a reference to Douglas Adam's <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>. It is the description of Zaphod Beeblebrox given by his psychiatrist Gag Halfrunt (who later tries to have Zaphod killed). Halfrunt is interviewed by the media when Zaphod steals the starship <i>Heart of Gold</i> for a comment, and says "Zaphod's just this guy, you know?"

Hey, while you're reading this, why not fill in my demographic survey, too? *grin*