Where does your user name come from?


Hi everyone,
I'm curious to know what's the story behind your user name (or Alias)... There are a bunch of people that use their name (of parts of it) like myself, Albert Porter, GerryM5, Esoler...

But where does user name like Cornfedboy, Garfish, Calloway, Tireguy, SwampWalker (and many many others) come from? Any story behind?

Just curious
lgregoir

Showing 1 response by justacoder

I guess mine is obvious too... but it is really more pretentious than it looks :-) I came up with it when at having lunch with a couple of people during a computer conference. They were from the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center - a very prestigious lab if you are not familiar with it. Anyway, we were going around the table, people saying what they did... you know: "manager of this legendary project...", "researcher of that bleeding edge technology..." I was admittedly somewhat intimidated, and so decided to go with the minimalist approach. When they got to me, I said: "I'm just a coder" and said it in such a way one might imagine Bruce Lee saying that he "just does martial arts"... :-)

I use this handle everywhere, and through it one can find me wherever I am as well as our dealership (audio federation - and I bet you can only guess 1/4 of the origin of this name :-).