how did you come up with your user name?

I actually took mine from a Mercedes Lackey book and ran with it.

 

I'm a small bear.

Also, I used to climb a lot.

 

I was CandleintheDark on the old TFP, so when they made the switch I decided that it quite too much typing to log-in. The old name, is of course, a reference Carl Sagan's A Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. I've be an atheist, skeptic, and pursuer of science since quite a young age, and I enjoyed the appeal to reason the username gave. The picture is just a random picture of a candle.

 

Plan9 decided my middle initial, D, chould—and should—stand for "Dammitall." I replaced the second M with an N for 5.0.

 

It came to me in a fleeting moment of randomness.

 

it was given to me by a buddy because of the way I talked or the way my mind works

 

Cernunnos is a Celtic deity, generally titled 'The Horned God' or 'God of the Hunt'. The name itself suits me, and at the point in my life during which I became Cernunnos, I was on the hunt for something and had recently read a book that inspired me to delve into Celtic mythology, Mythago Wood.

 

I stole it from a friend who said it was the meaning of his name. I think he was lying.

I just googled it...he wasn't.

 

I've been called Stick for over 30 years now. I used to be skinny. That was about 40 lbs ago.

 

I have always felt a close kinship with my troglodyte ancestry, and Caveman had already been taken, when I chose it, so I thought about Mel Brook's bit about a cave man, and "Jewed" it up a little to Cayvmann. No offense to the Hebrew brethren...

 

when I was a kid, not even 5, my grand dad used to call me old boy as a term of endearment and never used it for any of my siblings, so its special to me

 

flat5 is an interval in music. A tritone. It is central in Western harmony - it begs a resolution.
Among many things that might also be said about it, it divides the octave precisely in two.

 

I liked your old handle. In fact, whenever I see this one, my mind automatically translates it back.

Mine is after a favourite, yet minor, character from the Dune series by Frank Herbert - a series of books that I was particularly fond of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)#House_Atreides

 

When I first discovered TFP back in like '03 via Fark I split a user account with a buddy. My name is Dave and he is Alan - voila Daval.

After a month or two he finally made his own account and I inherited this one and been that way ever since.

 

The devil's interval. I'm a fan!

 

TFP is all about evolution. People evolve and morph along with their usernames.

My username has been shorted 3 times now. I'll probably end up with a username like Ish or Sh in a few years time.

 

My old gaming tag was Smackre. Just never changed.

 

i find it very enlightning to read how people came up with their names. it can also teach you alot about people

 

Its the license plate # on the Monte Carlo in the movie Training Day.

 

I was led to tfp by fark.com. I didn't think much about my user name at the time I joined. I was studying evolutionary biology. So, I chose sapiens.