Joeyd was taken when I signed up.

So... there were 998 others!?!?

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My name is my name. My avatar is a patch I helped design to commemorate the Coast Guard's involvement in Loran from the time a young CG officer was assigned to the CNO's office to become the liaison at MIT Radiation Lab until the last U.S. loran signal was turned off in August 2010 when my old unit, Loran Station Attu Island went silent as part of the U.S.-Russian Chain.

The patch was designed by CG veterans, the Coast Guard had nothing to do with it.

So... Your family name is Jester?

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Three random letters and three random numbers!

I hear ya! - I often have that urge myself when filling out registration forms

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My nick name.

And all this time I assumed it was a play on the name of the Maldivian currency (to wit: the rufiyaa)

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Another pun handle .... Alec Tronics. My avatar (the fire-breathing animation doesn't work on this site) is a nod to the Welsh flag.

 

And all this time I assumed it was a play on the name of the Maldivian currency (to wit: the rufiyaa)

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Now you said it, it does have ring to it.

 

My profile name is.....my name.

My profile picture is....my picture.

The most boring profile here!

 

So you mean you weren't with the NSA after all? --- Bang goes my Orwellian paranoia!

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I served in the Navy as a military cryptographic communications manager, operator and technician. The NSA (military branch) controls all government communications and was our direct operational commander. All operations need communications, that was my job.

 

Another pun handle .... Alec Tronics. My avatar (the fire-breathing animation doesn't work on this site) is a nod to the Welsh flag.

It totally sucks that the Union Jack does not incorporate the welsh flag. We could have had A DRAGON on that flag! Seriously, a DRAGON. It don't get much cooler than that!

 

Avatar/User name self explanatory!
Just a fan of the show.
Here I only exist in cyber space.
Max.

 

Avatar/User name self explanatory!
Just a fan of the show.
Max.

Oh I thought it had to do with the hijacking of a Doctor who episode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion

 

Avatar/User name self explanatory!
Just a fan of the show.
Here I only exist in cyber space.
Max.

Well I remember his monitions as regards the 'P' word -- Even as Coke did their level best to emulate same! Jeeeeeze! That seems like a long time ago!

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Oh I thought it had to do with the hijacking of a Doctor who episode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion

@Sinus23 -- I'm not entirely certain I want to know the inspiration for your username?!

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My userneame is simply my first initial and last name. Pretty straightforward.

My avatar is because Calvin is the comic book character that I admire the most, with his unlimited imagination and insatiable appetite for adventure.

 

My initials plus general line of work being I have in some way always done 'Technical' or Technicians' work or basic engineering of some sort, usually without the official title since my employers could get away with paying me less, way less, without it (They usually only referred to me in such titles when dealing with customers ) .

That and TCMTech fits on a license plate as TCMTEK plus the vehicle number 1 - 9 (I'm up to TCMTEK3 now.) and make sense whereas TCM Engineer shortened to 'TCMEng' would make most think I am some english major which would just annoy me at the implications.

Also when I first went officially self employed as a legitimate business venture I started TCM Tech Service and have used that as by basic business base since regardless of what sort of independent work I do. AS of lately I mostly just use the business name and related credentials for getting access to being able to purchase certain goods from wholesale only sources without the way too often huge middleman price gouging of buying through some other dealer entails.

For example, I recently picked up a good 1000 gallon bulk propane tank for cheap because someone stole all the brass fitting off it when it was sitting empty in some farmers yard and he scraped it because buying the new fittings would cost more then the tank was worth. ~$1200 - $1500 whereas through my wholesale source accounts they are about $250 tops. Seriously the pricing gap between full wholesale source to dealer Vs public resale value on too many items is frigging nuts.

 

@Sinus23 -- I'm not entirely certain I want to know the inspiration for your username?!

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Long story short(not that long) Sínusbylgja means Sinewave in Icelandic. It was not a well thought out plan on my behalf... ;/

 

my name was picked at a time of desperation when I joined the site seeking help with homework. Sometimes I regret the choice, but generally I am ok with it.

The avatar is a symbol of my hometown. Here is a photo of the real thing:

 

Most people already know I was Quality Control stamp number 32 at three different corporations, purely by coincidence, so I changed that number to the shortest, easiest to type version I could think of in 30 seconds. (I never store passwords or log-ins on a computer, so I knew I'd be typing it a lot.) I don't have many photos of myself, so I had to dredge one up from 40 years ago, scan it, crop it, and post it. It's a picture of a very good day at the Grand Canyon.

I started out with a pic of my favorite dog and her name, but people made remarks about taking advice from a Poodle, and a Bichon is very different from a Poodle. Kind of like a, "California laid back" Poodle. Smart, fun, cuddly, but there is no such thing as a stupid, yappy, ankle snapper kind of Bichon. I just couldn't keep exposing my favorite dog to verbal abuse on the Internet.

So, I'm Number Twelve. The double-thumbing generation calls me, "hashtag one two". I think that's hilarious.

without the official title since my employers could get away with paying me less, way less, without it (They usually only referred to me in such titles when dealing with customers ) .

My experience was the opposite. I was the senior engineer in a power supply company, but I looked like a teeny-bopper so the boss hid me in the back room and pretended (to the customers) that he knew which end of a flashlight to put batteries in.

 

The most boring profile here!

The most honest too...

 

So... there were 998 others!?!?

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The decimal point is implied.

As in .999 fine.

Nobody's perfect.