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Dave W · #**221** 10-13-2009, 04:32 AM

Try signing up with GMail or any of several other services. I spent about an hour playing with Google, which wouldn't accept any name I gave it unless it had numbers at the end. Google's spybots had located my ISP's location, and were pretty insistent on including their ZIP code as part of any user name I tried. Other services have been similarly annoying.

Then you get places which limit you to at least three, but no more than eight characters, no dots, dashes, or other punctuation; the ones that insist on assigning you some random collection of characters, etc.
Then there are people who work at some place where their employer's
IT department assigns some crazy username based on initials and Social Security number, etc.

I have a couple of accounts where the systems wouldn't take anything I came up with, so I finally tried random collections of numbers and letters until something was accepted. Never could figure out what the admin's algorithm was...

In my experience, most people stay with whatever username they get first, rather than coming up with a new name each time they create an account somewhere.

BACH · #**222** 10-17-2009, 12:12 AM

My login name is a combination of my real initials, combined in that order in memory of a late very best friend. He was a was a very large South West African (now Namibian) who suffered from respiratory problems all his life. His family nicknamed him "Bach" because of his continual barking cough as a baby, and not on his musical prowess. The name stuck throughout his life until he died. I used capital letters because that is how initials are usually written and not to reflect an inflated self opinion.

My real surname is Hustler. How many people would not take me seriously, or form some sort of unsavoury opinion of me, if they thought I had chosen that name as my online label.

I often wonder, when applying for some sort of service or other, whether the supplier looks twice at my application before approving it (on the strength of my record and references).

Never had a problem though, and I am proud of my name and lineage (originally from Yorkshire UK).

Regards
Tony

Newman109 · #**223** 10-17-2009, 01:22 AM

Wow! this thread is really old. Not too much has changed in the last four years, either. I still have the same silly screen name. Mine is just my real middle name with my birth month and day. That's good enough. I almost wish I'd been more creative now. Maybe a name like "Beezel", "Dweezel" or "Beelzebub" would have been more suitable. I considered ones like that but then I thought better of it. LOL.

ormachine · #**224** 10-17-2009, 09:10 AM

Newman109.

Happy Birthday !! ( belated )

Steve Seebold · #**225** 10-22-2009, 09:25 AM

Where did the name Milacron come from? I just use my name! Steve Seebold.

Milacron · #**226** 10-22-2009, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve Seebold

Where did the name Milacron come from? I just use my name! Steve Seebold.

Cincinnati Milacron... one of the most well known machine tools in the world. Are you new to this field or what ?

ObsoleteTom · #**227** 10-22-2009, 10:11 AM

One of these days I will post pictures of my shop. Then (if it's not already obvious) everyone will understand where my user name comes from.

Regards,
Tom-Yep, it's my real name.

Proudly residing a few blocks east of the stoplight in beautiful, exciting Marlette, Michigan

KIMFAB · #**228** 10-22-2009, 10:52 AM

I use the name of my company that I've run since '76. In real life I was in the telephone-computer-electronics field and did fabricating on the side to keep my sanity.
As for worrying about others knowing your real info I side with flutedchamber - no windows in shop, alarms and cameras, not because I'm paranoid, its because I like to play with this stuff.
As for spam, because I have my own domain with a business I get 400 to 500 spams a day. Today 1 got through. If I see it again I'll specifically kill it.

Also I love to talk to telemarketers, had one the other day ask for the office manager- I told her " She can't come to the phone now, she is locked in the closet, she has been a very very naughty little girl" Got about 10 seconds of silence and she hung up!

Retirement can get ugly after a while.

kbertoson · #**229** 10-22-2009, 11:50 AM

I do like your name . Yes I thought that was the source

grymster · #**230** 10-26-2009, 07:13 AM

My username may fit into your "idiotic" category Millacron, but it's what people call me. Someone at work once told me I was grim bastard, after that caught on with some of the guys, it morphed to grimster. I changed the spelling to grymster when I was registering for a board that already had a grimster. Now, for consistency, I use the current spelling on a number of boards.

I don't really understand why people think I'm so grim... then again, it don't really matter, we'll all be dead soon...

Steve Seebold · #**231** 10-26-2009, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Milacron

Cincinnati Milacron... one of the most well known machine tools in the world. Are you new to this field or what ?

Not new to the field, just fairly new to this forum. I have a very good friend who retired from Cincinnati Milicron about 5 years ago. He has traveled all over the world servicing their machines. Maybe you know him, his name is Ron Buck. He still goes out on service calls on older machines, but no more international stuff.

priest · #**232** 10-28-2009, 05:43 PM

I have been using the nick name Priest for quite a few years.

Who wants to flame a Priest? Makes forum use easy.

Jaymo · #**233** 10-29-2009, 05:47 PM

It is a nickname given to my by favorite boss ever. Not sure if my spelling is correct, though. Maybe it should be J-Mo. Dunno.
My nickname among friends is trigger. Has been since tech school.
What my wife calls me would be inappropriate to use here.

gmach10 · #**234** 11-02-2009, 05:10 PM

My wife and I went to my Daughter's High School for a lecture on getting into the college of your choice. First thing the moderator said was "If you son or daughter has an email address of questionable taste LOOSE IT! . You aren't going to gain popularity applying to Yale with an address like studdly 69 or boytoy"

Finegrain · #**235** 11-02-2009, 05:45 PM

If I used my first name Mike, it'd get mixed up with 1000 other Mikes. Even if I added my last initial and was Mike S, I'd still get mixed up with the other Mike S, so maybe then I'd be Mike S #2 ...

My last name is long and contorted, and easily mistyped into various unpleasantnesses of which I am sick and tired.

Finegrain is a nod to a couple degrees in Physics and early business ventures in woodworking -- fine structure + wood grain = Finegrain.

Regards.

FG

Steve in SoCal · #**236** 11-02-2009, 07:54 PM

FG,

What happened to your picture?

there are no toothless emoticons.

By the way one good thing about having a unique name is; I have my real name at both gmail and yahoo.

Steve

toolingjim · #**237** 11-04-2009, 09:11 PM

My online handle got started about ten years back when a non-computer coworker asked me to order me a riflescope online. Since I was sitting in front of the 66mhz Mac in the toolroom at work, updating paper copies of tooling prints, it seemed the perfect handle. I never thought I'd use it again, but then I heard of this little site called Ebay...

toolingjim (Just a guy who likes to build stuff)

boaterri · #**238** 11-05-2009, 06:01 AM

In my case, the first forums I visited were boating forums. I live on a boat and it is docked in Rhode Island.

Rick