In the beginning I called myself Wallstar. It seemed like a word I had seen every day. Then I wandered just where I had seen it. I started watching. I finally found it at work, in the men's room. The urinal had a dark green screen with the brand name Allstar in white. From a certain angle the reflection of the overhead lamp put a white W in front, making it WAllstar. I had named myself after a urinal screen!
My name is Vern and I used to peddle jewelry. I was a flop at that, too.
When the internet was introduced , when all we had was land lines, I remember thinking, this is a great way to bring all humans together as a collective conscious. Then I further went on to think, this is so neat, bringing all us carbonproducts together as one, since we essentially are made up of carbon. Hence, Carbonproduct. ;))
Call me Ishmael is the first sentence in Moby Dick. I like the book and the Movie (the original). I identify with Ishmael, son of Abraham, because I too was the first son born to my father who was banished from his father's house by the woman who bore his second son. In the Biblical story, the woman was Hagar and the second son was Isaac. I am not Middle-eastern.
I'm a fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Slartibartfast is a wise old man who designs planets - he won an award for doing the coastline of Norway. Author Douglas Adams was trying to come up with a name that sounded vaguely obscene, but would still be broadcastable (by BBC 1978 standards), so he started with "Phartiphukborlz" and played around with it until coming up with Slartibartfast. The backstory tickled me, so I adopted the name as my 'net handle.
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