How are handles created? What do they mean?
How are handles created? What do they mean?
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Hello,
I recently read a posting by "alekky" where I learned that an electrician is nicknamed Alec in some parts of the world. I learned that he got his name when quite young and naïve and I learned that "alekky" is derived from Alec. That makes a lot of sense and the handle is short and easy to remember.
I think that there is a story behind most handles in here. But some are not so easy to decipher. So, please: all you rnd2 and sailoday28 and 25362 and all other - how did you create your handle? What is the story behind it?
I will let you in on my secret: Skogsgurra comes from Swedish Skog (forest) and Gunnar (an old Viking name). We were three guys in the same department (technical, of course) and there was a need to distinguish between us. I lived furthest from city center. Not exactly in the forest (I do now), but closest to it. So that's why.
I recently read a posting by "alekky" where I learned that an electrician is nicknamed Alec in some parts of the world. I learned that he got his name when quite young and naïve and I learned that "alekky" is derived from Alec. That makes a lot of sense and the handle is short and easy to remember.
I think that there is a story behind most handles in here. But some are not so easy to decipher. So, please: all you rnd2 and sailoday28 and 25362 and all other - how did you create your handle? What is the story behind it?
I will let you in on my secret: Skogsgurra comes from Swedish Skog (forest) and Gunnar (an old Viking name). We were three guys in the same department (technical, of course) and there was a need to distinguish between us. I lived furthest from city center. Not exactly in the forest (I do now), but closest to it. So that's why.





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If you saw the film Zulu, you will recall that the soldiers of the Welsh regiment were known by ther numbers.... something that carries over from civilian life where they would be discriminated by their profession... Jones the Milk (milk delivery man), Jones the Post, Jones the butcher. Of course, Jones the soldier doesn't do it in a regment of "Jones the Soldier" hence the numbers. Ditto for the Williamses.
Common handles or nicknames include "Chalky" White, which is fairly obvious, and "Nobbby" Clark though I have no idea why that is.
Any more out there?
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Shall I infer that you are one of the Joneses? And that you are a Milkman. And that your surname is Williams? That would explain the "jmw". Or am I completely wrong?
BTW. I always thought of "Nobby" as "Nobody". Wrong again?
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I thought I'd look up the Nobby clark reference and got distracted by this site of Scouse dockers nicknames (Scouse is Liverpoll England) which is probably more amusing than the names people give themselves as handles... http://www.pettitt.fsnet.co.uk/Dockers%20Nicnames....
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" In Middle English the word was ekename (from the verb to eke, "enlarge"; compare Swedish ?knamn). Later, an ekename developed into a nickname."
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I do research and development as well as management stuff, hence rnd2.
Incidentally, alekky is brilliant. a lekky is an electrician.
In Australia they are known in the trade as 'Leckies. If someone required the services of an electrician they would look for a 'Lecky.
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See? There is a story or some thinking behind all nicknames and handles. We call our electricians "Lysmask" which translates into "Firefly" I guess that it comes from those old times when electricity was used mainly for lighting purposes (Lys = Light and Mask = Worm or Bug).
It is an old trade: When the Lord said; Let there be light! The "Lecky" had already put up the armature, the wires and the switch...
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Its what I was drinking when I registered on this forum.
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Haven't been able to figure out all your names yet, schetwynd. Stanly Charles Henry Ernest (important to be) Theodore William (or Wilhelm?) and then I have to give up -York (is that a name?)
And MintJulep: I was completely sober when I registered. My drinking came later...
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I'm one of those by education, but doing mostly electro-optical sensors of the thermal imaging kind, hence IR.
TTFN
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Nick
I love materials science!
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"But what... is it good for?"
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
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They were known as "Flash" and "Flush".
jimbo
Buy a dictionary, keep it nearby and USE it. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English is recommended, and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
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Hg
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That has been my userID for 25 years, through MVS, CICS, CMS, early networking, and so now it is me and I always use it.
David Simpson, PE
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Jeff
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corus
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Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng
Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
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Hydraulics Engineers are Oilies.
Mechanical Engineers are Clankies, and I is one.
Cheers - John
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Go Mechanical Engineering
Tobalcane
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=quark
I wished I would have this as my company's name(if I ever float one) but it already exists.
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Ahh, are you a brother of FM and is your level MM? If you are, I thought his name is appropriate for this site.
Go Mechanical Engineering
Tobalcane
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I showed more imagination in my company name... it is a combination of my wife's and my own middle names which are neither normal.
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On the epinions.com site I use the handle "Mr Luddite" for no other reason that that i joined the site simpley to slag off some pretty poor products I have bought (excluding the infamous lawnmower in the profesional ethics forum).
I think at the time i joined i was particularly incensed by a particular well known virus checker firewall etc all bundled into one and a total nuisance.
I note, incidentally, than many pundits recommend separate installations of the compenents... I now use AVG, on my wifes machine,which does the job unobtrusively but am stuck with it on my business machine.
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Patricia Lougheed
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I learned the Hg symbol in 7th grade and thought it was way cool that it matched my initials. My grandfather had the same initials and signed the same way, as he told me after I started using it. On versions of the periodic table that highlight the liquid metals, my name sticks right out in the middle.
I've signed as Hg ever since, even in letters to family. There was one BBS back in college (back in BBS days) where some other guy had Hg and ordered me to stop using it because he didn't want people thinking I was him, so I went by -80-. (Geddit?)
I have a vague recollection that eng-tips didn't want me to use a 2-letter handle so I added TX.
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Bung
Life is non-linear...
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I laughed at you last post. My wife has called this site engineer porn, or Eng-####, where #### is a vulgar word for breasts that looks and sounds similar to tips.
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Cory
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When she caught me reading eng-tips on a Saturday.
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I had to give you each a star because that is exactly what my wife claims - to the letter. Maybe....., they should start a forum for engineer wives .....naah!
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Amen.
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I got rerig when I was Night Shift Maintenance Chief in a Navy Transport Squadron. Every night we had to reconfigure (rerig) the transport aircraft for the next days missions.
I was dubbed "Chief Rerig"
I retired 15 years ago. Then really went to work.
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I just got done reading a book about Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War. Any relation to him? I've only met one person with that surname, a journalist in western Mass. It doesn't seem to be a very common name.
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JMW (my initials) were taken. Given I know three other Engineers named John I figured there would be at least some anonymity in the handle.
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Byron T.
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"They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in...... ......And friends they may thinks it's a movement." --Arlo Guthrie "Alice's Restaurant"
(Well theres two of us"
Nick
I love materials science!
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Have you heard the one about "...the Engineer has a Wife and a Mistress. They each think I'm with the other and I can get on the computer and really get some work done"
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Sorry to disappoint you, but my branch of the family arrived in Sydney in 1820 on a convict transport ship. Free transport courtesy of the British Government.
Jeff
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Hmmm .... anyone care to guess? Need a clue??
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I never got any spam in the testdog2000 account till I started using it (as a test) and boom, spam started arriving. I sort of got to like the handle and use it on a lot of places on the net. TD2K is just an abbreviation of it obviously.
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When I was younger and stupider (and during the birth of the Internet as we know it, I thought that I should should dream-up an online name for myself... Green was my favourite colour then (it no longer is, though green does "catch" my eye...) (my initials "mvk" were taken)) and "hex" for something mystical...
Later I found a *few* of "GreenHex"s on the web that is *not* me...
mvk
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Thanks for the info. No disappointment in the least. I read "The Fatal Shore" years ago and really enjoyed learning about the immigrants to Australia. Always have enjoyed reading about your unique continent. I hope to visit some day. Some of my best friends are Australians, some of whom still live there and some of whom have come to the States. One who lives in Virginia acquired a blue heeler puppy in June, so she's feeling more at home here with this Australian link. She loves Virginia, but she does miss home.
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My thinking: if I'm not willing to sign my name to a post then I probably shouldn't be posting it. However, I've reconsidered this position occasionally when I have dumb questions which I don't want to ask myself! (This isn't one of them.)
--Jonathan
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Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein
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I've just never been fond of advertising too much about myself in an electronic forum. I've almost always avoided using my first name since my first Bitnet forays in the 1980s. The first handle I selected here was my last name but then I thought better of it.
But I don't imagine for an instant that I'm truly anonymous here.
I just thought of a new excuse: there are people here who really are posting messages (especially in the ethics forum) that need to stay anonymous (or as anonymous as this environment can offer). In a forum where anonymity is discouraged, those folks might be discouraged from making those posts.
Yeah, that's it, it's altruism. Or force of electronic habit; take your pick.
Hg
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>> I figured it was because you worked for Greenheck. Go figure.
Just did a google search for "Greenheck"... (won't do it again soon).
Vinodh Kumar M.
www.swCP3.com
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<www.greenheck.com>
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1. Approximate age. (Long enought to see if my solutions to technical problems "turned out well" over time).
2. Problem solving techniques (which, believe it or not, are often - but not always - still applicable).
3. An indication of first hand understanding of the difference between "accuracy" and "precision".
4. An indication that you can "teach an old dog new tricks" - if that was not so, I would not be participating at Eng-Tips - I would be "computer illiterate".
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Putting the Human Factor back in Engineering.
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"frivolous and flamboyant handle"
Would that be an oddly shaped handle on a floating candle?
Never Mind.
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Chri Sconley
**If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the precipitate.**
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Foolishly, I did know that a Virago was a motorcycle.
JHG
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In your first post you mentioned a handle, "sailoday28". I don't know this person but my guess is that he is a sailing enthusiast. The ODay part is a sailboat manufacturer and "28" is probably referring to the length of this persons sailboat. Thus he owns a 28' ODay sailboat. Maybe I'm wrong but it was fun trying to guess.
regards,
ietech
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When I first registered at Eng-Tips I was in a hurry, so I didn't thought about the handle very much... and then I simply chose the first letter of the name + the surname (the same as the e-mail addresses and web usernames in my Company...)
As a nickname I usually sign "NGL", that is the contraction of my first name:
Angelo ---> Angiluzzu ---> 'Ngiluzzu ---> 'Ngilù ---> 'NGL
where the first steps of the above evolution come from the period when I was working in Sicily as a SAP Consultant
Bye to all, 'NGL
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Instead of doing an internship during the summer while I was in college, I worked at a pack station in the Eastern Sierra Nevada in CA. Near June Lake.
After working there a couple of years, I had enough seniority to always have the same string if mules. Clyde was my lead mule for 2 years. We got along great, except once he headbutted me and damn near broke my nose.
One webiste I logged onto had the the system where they ask you a canned question to give you your password if you forget it. "Who is your favorite animal?" My answer was Clyde the Mule. It then got shortened to clydemule, and I use that all the time as a logon, because I am to dumb to remember anything else. I get fouled up when they require a number though.
I never felt comfortable using my real name (even though I sign with it every now and again). I also didn't like using my company name when asking what could be perceived as a dumb quesion.
On another note, I am part of HVAC-Talk.com as well, and find there are all kinds of guys who use handles like #1_kick_ass_service_tech_guru_who_knows_everything and then they ask something that you learn in the first day of HVAC 101. I know that you can never learn enough, and the best way to learn is by asking questions, but in the context of a conceited name it seems silly.
I am addicted to this site as well.
Jeff
(aka clydemule)
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I truly understand...My handle is "pennpoint" "penn" a part of my last name and "point" as I have one, an opinion or view, albeit not always the correct or popular view. Yes! I'll admit I've got my faults. I'm willing to learn. I'll also say I get alot of information and satisfaction from this site and forum.
Thank You All
Regards
pennpoint
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I have absolutely no idea what I'd be using if the TV show "Cheers!" hadn't borrowed it all those years.
Norm
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After some time, I thougt that it could be interesting to find out how many percent of you that had chosen your pet's name, your old school nickname, a favorite actor's or drink's name, a modification to your initials or simply used your name without modifications.
To make the math real simple, I decided to wait for exactly 100 answers to my question. Then, each answer would be one percent. It cannot get any simpler than that. Can it?
So. Keep the answers coming! When you have delivered 100 answers - I deliver the statistics. But only then!
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Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein
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(order me now!)
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evelrod---Evelrod Racing (ERE). A combination of my wife's name and mine that we used to enter races at the circuits in Texas where I was racing in 1962. At that time I thought the name would give us "status"---it didn't but, the name stuck.
My nickname since school is, "Rocket", I tend to be a bit "hyper" at times.
Rod
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Pad = First syllable of last name
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Cory
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By the way, SlideRuleEra, I went through college with a slide rule, too, even though I didn't graduate till 1978. (Oh, and a CRC handbook, too!) It wasn't till my last year that calculators with scientific functions fell into the $20-50 range. I was paying for my own education (how cheap it seems now!) and trying to save money.
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Hg
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I'd have to sit down and concentrate for a while to figure out how to use the slide rule again. But being a fan of useful instruments of all kinds, I'd have fun in the reacquaintance!
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Putting Human Factor Back in Engineering
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Hg
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Mine is a nickname since childhood- my last name is Rhodes, and one of the few nicknames I possess that doesn't include some kind of vulgarity, thanks to my "bluecollar" friends.
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I don't like when people change names and I guess to be consistent I will retain this one (although I don't find it any good
So, to avoid any confusion no more morphing.
Putting Human Factor Back in Engineering
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RalphChristie - quite obvious my name and surname.
8804428 - Personal number at the Company.
Snuffels - Nickname in Afrikaans - to search for something or a dog's name. (not mine)
I'm totally addicted to this site. [Not married yet, and my dog never complain...
Regards
Ralph
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Putting Human Factor Back in Engineering
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(Die Kalahari is bykans heeltemal Afrikaans. Sukkel my vrek met die vertaling van Afrikaans na Engels....
Ralph
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Are you realllly THE Tick. I mean (don't you get tired of people using that expression? I mean you know, "I mean") Wow that is really cool if that is you in the pics with those cartoon guys.
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Your post of 9/23 has really sent me off into fantasy land. I can just see myself sitting at the ol' home PC, bangin' away--API gravity, PLC logic, RS-485, centrifugal pump curves--when my wife comes slipping around the door wearing a smile and that little see-thru.....whewwww, I gotta' go get a cup of coffee.
Wait 'til the little lady has her mentalpause and the interest in baring it all turns to $#!+. My advice is to chase her butt down and see if the offer still stands.
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Question:Why we are fascinated about 100?
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Our hundredth answer!
Congratulations for you quark.
You asked a question. Let me put one first. Your question will be answered later on.
Was this a strategic masterpiece on your part? I mean; did you wait until you knew that you would be #100? Or was it just pure luck? And, did you know that there is no prize whatsoever?
Now your question: I figured that it would be interesting to find out how many percent of you had chosen handles based on your name, your pet's name, your profession and so on. So - being a bit on the lazy side - I decided to make things simple and wait for 100 answers. That would take the tedious math out of the task.
Now, that I read all the answers, I realise that some of them are not hard facts. I would characterise them as chit-chat across the fence. My problem is: shall I wait for 100 pieces of hard data or shall I do that math on the 85 or so available "good" postings? Or shall I fake the whole thing and hope that no-one doublechecks my data?
And this so close to Christmas... I have other things to worry about right now :-(
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(And sorry for yet another "chit-chat" reply!)
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I was registering with another forum and needed a name. That forum let you choose these little cartoon pictures for your icon. I looked through them and found a picture of a fish which I thought was appropriate since my last name rhymes with "Trout" (and I've been called Trout most of my life). Not thinking that anybody would get the Trout thing since I don't post my real name, I tried to think of something that sounded like it was water related. "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull sprang to mind (no, I don't know why either), but this was a jazz forum and I figured they wouldn't appreciate the sly reference. So then I tried to think of words that sounded like Aqualung. "Aqueduct!", I thought. Perfect.
Then I proceeded to misspell it. Duh! At least I know it won't already be used when I join other forums.
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Yep. Yes I was waiting for the 99th post to come. In one of the previous threads I waited till the 90th post and then slept off. When I woke up the next morning, alas! it was 101st post. Yes, it is pure luck then. Ok there may not be prizes now but I can wait till the decennial function of our beloved website
I think you will get better statistics after getting 100 useful replies. I know that atleast two of my posts are useless
Good Luck,
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He's gone now and I have his job now. So I'm really the only Carl now
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My nickname comes from a sci-fi world created by Games Workshop and known by the name of Warhammer 40K. In this universe there are Tech-priest of the Machine God that worship machines without knowing how they work (gross simplification).
Since I'm just arrived in the engineering world, and I know very little of what I'm supposed to, I feel like them:)
Greeting from Italy
Che Dio ce la mandi buona, o almeno ce la mandi- Massimiliano Eusebi
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Rob Campbell, PE
Finite Monkeys - www.livejournal.com/users/robcampbell
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Shaw Almex Canada
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OK, I admit it is pretty silly but not nearly as dull as just providing the obvious answer for my handle.
I suppose I could have used "IRmetals" but don't know how to make a dislexic R in cyberspace being barely computer literate since I also grew up on the slide rule. A fellow engineer and I went in together and bought the first Sears hand held calculater for $100. It could +, -, X, divide, one memory, and I think it had x squared and square root.
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Massimiliano,
it's good to hear someone else from Italy within this site!!
Please take a look at my reply to this post of Oct. 6, 2004 and meet me, if you want, on Forum408 (Valve Engineering...)...
Bye, 'NGL
P.S.: Mi unisco al tuo augurio "Che Dio ce la mandi..."! Ciao da Lugagnano Val d'Arda (PC).
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Since school I have been a plastic injection toolmaker, but a couple of years ago made the switch to designing/drawing mould tools. Hence 3D for the CAD systems I was learning when I joined, Kiwi for where I have resided for past 10 years. I now consider myself a New Zealander, and try to keep quiet about my pomy past!!
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Enjoying the forum.
Note to VeryPicky. I agree with blackwed (12/17), and I think the "men in the clean white coats" should come and take you away. Never disappoint the wife...you will pay and pay and pay....
Ron
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Regards,
Namdac
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what I race on weekends - that was easy!
Keep the wheels on the ground
Bob
showshine@aol.com
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brent
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Naresuan University
Phitsanulok
Thailand
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I think that I have got my 100 answers now. So it's time for some home-work so that I can publish the statistics that I promised a few months ago.
First I have to find categories that all your answers can fit into. Not too few and not too many. I guess that ten is a good number. Then sorting and counting and doing the math (if there happens to be more than exactly 100 valid answers - which I fear)and finally write up a report and publish it.
Do not expect to see any result for another week - it makes me weak already...
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Mine is my name "Joe" and surname "Borg".
This login is the same for FORD supplier portal and this required a numeric entry, that is the "1" at the end.
I am from sunny Malta.
Joe Borg
www.methode-eur.com
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does "Borg" come from the Star TrekTM saga?
If so, you should be "1 of x" (where x is a natural number representing how many of you have been assimilated that time... resistance is futile! )...
Live Long and Prosper, 'NGL
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Borg is a common Maltese surname mainly meaning "a heap". Although being a Trekie myself I think I fall a bit short from being a borg.
Joe Borg
www.methode-eur.com
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sorry I didn't read with attention your first post (so I thought "Borg" was a nickname, instead of a surname)... Anyway, many thanks for your kind answer!
In any case, more than one time I read something about the relationship between being an Engineer and loving Star TrekTM: maybe I'll start a thread about that (what would be the proper Forum? "Pat's Pub", for instance?).
"Sunny Malta" makes me recall when I was working in Sicily and I used to see the planes with the big red Malta cross in Catania airport... I always said "I'll go there, one of these week-ends", but I never did. So, as far as you know... does anybody need a mechanical engineer, a SAP R/3 consultant and/or an AOB (any other business) specialist somewhere there in Malta?
(It's a little self-promotion, I see... but please don't red-flag me: it comes from an hearth wish and desire of sun, more than for making money...!)
A heap of greetings from Italy, 'NGL
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Bigbillnky,C.E.F.....(Chief Electrical Flunky)
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Remember,
To the untrained eye, "if it's not broke, don't fix it"
To the Engineer, "if it's not broken, it doesn't have enoght parts!".
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I recently had a more difficult name to chose however. I had to officially declare a dance name this past weekend just prior to a performance. I had been doing a bit of research for the last 6-9 months to find one that met all the requirements (starts with H like my given name, wasn't currently in use by any well-known belly dancers in the area, and, had a meaning that fit me)
Hefzibah, an Arabic name that means 'protector' is what I chose from a very long list. It was actually suggested by the 4-year-old twin daughters of one of the owners of the company I work for. Co-workers also had some valuable suggestions that were difficult to pass up. Some of those include;
Hab el Roman (Arabic for seeds of the pomegranate) too complicated
Helvetica (Latin, from Switzerland) good name for an architect, but it would be hard to justify for someone of French, Italian, Spanish, Irish and Shawnee origins.
Hysteresis (Greek for a response lag) too biological, and finally
HAL 9000 (Kubrick for psycho computer) I liked this one and I'm a huge Kubrick fan. But somehow listening to an introduction that might sound like, "and now we have HAL 9000 performing her double veil sword dance..."
Something just not right about that.
https://www.tipmaster.com/images/gorgeous.gif
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So your a female structural engineer and a belly dancer, your a brunette, your 110 lbs, 5ft 7in, shaply and your father owns a bar. So cool, I like your handle "casseopeia"
Best Regards
pennpoint
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so are you "of French, Italian, Spanish, Irish and Shawnee origins"?
Thanks, 'NGL
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aha, you are a twinkling star
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No dad didn't own a bar, but my grandfather, a saftey engineer in New Orleans, used to inspect the clubs in the Quarter (for real, no joke). I think that's where he met my grandmother, who used to dance in one of the clubs.
My father was an electrical and petroleum engineer. After moving around the family for the army, he quit and went to work for Oil companies. Then we moved around to different places for oil companies.
I am actually a licensed architect, but currently going to school for an engineering degree so that I can be licensed structural engineer here in California. Last semester I struggled through introductory chemestry (got a B).
I would call my hair color dark chestnut. It's actually got quite a bit of red (thanks to my red-haired, dancing grandmother and strawberry blond mother). I'm about 5'-8-1/2" and haven't weighed 110 since junior high school!
As for shapely, belly dancing will actually reform your body. It makes you more hourglass shaped. The movements (isolations) are generally controlled by small core muscles and obliques, so you get a lot of definition and toning in those areas. And if you are like me, you build most of your muscle mass in quads and gluts.
And I believe I am the ONLY engineer belly dancer in my general vicinity here in Northern California. In fact, I can think of only one person I've danced with that routinely works with numbers, and she's a CPA. There are a surprising number of nurses and people in the alternative medical arts.
So, back to work...ugh
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Ah! I'm impressed. I applaud your efforts. It's good to know there are women who strive to become more than just a mans wife (to be kept).
I bid you good luck and good grades.
From So Cal.
pennpoint
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Started out tinkering with analog electronics as a kid at age 7. Throughout the years, I progressed to digital electronics, microprocessors, computers, and then software design (primarily LabWindows CVI and now LabView).
Now at age 40, I consider myself more of a 'digital man'.
Ahhh, to be analog again......
Wheels within wheels / In a spiral array
A pattern so grand / And complex
Time after time / We lose sight of the way
Our causes can't see / Their effects.
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us obsolete. (Thank God)
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UNC-Charlotte + PE
I wanted "ThatGuy", but it was already taken............
So in a hurry I chose my school and my title.
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Mine is not original at all; beginning of my last name, althought I like the ring of it
unccpe:
Fellow UNCC grad
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What year?
I'm a 1996 grad.
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Drawing a long bow could it also mean firefry?
The grammar is correct. It has been checked and approved. If it is not what you expect or to your liking you should be aware you are watching an evolutionary process occurring and should either upgrade or remain a boat anchor.
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graduated in 92 EE. I had a friend who's husband was in arichitecture school around your time frame. Although, I cannot remember his name right now.
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thought about using other ones...
hn6-6!q
ssalpeaH
6u!pleq
but may be some people would have difficulty spelling them...
(i know you will decipher them easily... he he he... and you may even get hooked on this)
+H6!u poo6
:oP
saludos.
a.