Hmm, "Iain" is an homage to the late Iain M. Banks. I've included the "M." because those are the ones I liked the best. "Aschendale" is also an homage, but one that I'm keeping to myself for the time being. The meaning of life? I think Bazarov summed it up best, in "Fathers and Sons." "It is enough, and now, darkness."
What it stands for: It's literally just my name + robots. How it came to be: I love me some robots. Adding things I like to my name or nicknames I've had has always been my go-to for usernames - previously it was Izzymandias, these days I'm feeling like something shorter and more sci-fi-y to keep in line with my Brand(TM) so it's Izzybot. Meaning of life: To be excellent to each other.
What it stands for I write tenders for a day job. How it came to be My mum refers to my job as "tenderiser". Meaning of life There is no meaning. Life just wants to be.
DeadMoon comes from a few books by a Spanish artist Luis Royo. He has created other works but the DeadMoon books are the ones that I like best.
Sack-a-doo! is something my wife says instead of Yahoo! or That's great! As to what it means, I have no idea. Perhaps the importance I've place upon it would do? I hope to bring that kind of excitement into someone's life... Maybe that's expecting too much. As for the meaning of life, I adhere to the idea that we're here to experience the experience of experiencing. What that means in the overall picture of existence, again I have no idea. I don't pretend to know what can only be known after I shuffle off this moral mortal coil.
What it stands for: Nostalgia. How it came to be: Many years ago, me and my friends would play crib while drinking our way along the top shelf of the local pub. The bottle on the very end had a skull and crossbones on it, and I'm still not sure if I'm disappointed or relieved we never got that far. I did the crib scoring, because numbers are my friends, and I'd give everyone gangster names on the scoresheet, like Firecracker Andy and Knuckle-Duster Donna. Nige The Hat was the one I gave me. Meaning of life: I wrote a thing about this, a while ago, and it's about as close to a philosophy on this as I've ever got: - Big Thoughts - I sat down at the end of the world. The ocean in front of me, Cornwall beneath my feet. There’s more world, but come here once, you never really want to be anywhere else. Magpie was stealing chough eggs, and I asked him “What are we doing here?” “Doing? Big thoughts?” “Big thoughts. Meaning of life. You know it?” “I do.” Magpie puffed himself up. “Eating well. Laughing well. Collecting shiny things.” “That doesn’t sound right.” “Course not. That’s the meaning of my life. You go find your own.” I lay back. Grass, sun, sea, stone. “Know what? I’m good.”
DoggieDude started because many years ago my ex and I showed American Eskimo Dogs & Finnish Spitz. I just got used to the name so I've stuck with it ever since. Meaning of life? Woof.
Nothing deep. I wanted a short name to make it easier to tag me, and I'm a fan of the Old West. Also, there was a GMail address available that didn't need numbers at the end.
What it stands for: Nidhogg comes from the Norse Níðhöggr, meaning 'Malice Striker'. It's the name of a mythological dragon that lived around the roots of the world tree and ate the corpses of the dead. How it came to be: When I pick my usernames, I tend to go for either mythology things or biology things, seeing as those are my two primary areas of interest. The myth of Nidhogg appealed to me because of how atypical of a dragon it was for what one would expect to come from Norse mythology- it's just depicted as this little tree snake that either eats dead people or plant roots or both, and whose only goal in life is to munch on tree roots. It's basically a draconic cicada nymph, and that's adorable to me. The meaning of life: I can't remember where I read it, but in my short time on this planet this has been the most reasonable offering I've seen for the purpose of life: Kick ass. Go to space. Represent the human race.
Nidhoggr is not explicitly described in size, but in one poem bears men corpses on his wings, which suggest a large creature actually. Nice life philosophy though.
The name is lifted from a very early Billy Connolly comedy routine where he talks about the unusual names given to children by Glasgow parents of the 1970s. If you're not Scots, don't go looking for the routine - his accent was much worse and you'll need subtitles! The meaning - something to do with an expatriate Scot's need for a tie to the homeland. The meaning of life? Einstein was rarely wrong, but when he was quoted as saying "God does not play dice" he certainly was. Evolution is nothing but brute force, churning out infinite variations just to see what combinations work. The downside is that most of us will fall by the evolutionary wayside. The upside is that we all have an equal right to be here. Aye, Genghis
It's just a Rolling Stones song, which happens to be also my username on Wattpad. I thought that by having the same usernames here and there people would recognize my work. I think it'll be a while until I post anything on Wattpad, and there's about a million other usernames I would have picked. Yeah, I didn't think this through
"... an hour of wolves, and shattered shields as the age of men comes crashing down..." Aragorn, Return of the King. Tolkien is my idol, and the reason I write at all. Shattered Shields as a meaningful phrase has kinda grown on me. It stands for when all the defenses are gone, broken. All the warriors are dead, the fields burned, the walls are rubble, the gate is in pieces, and all the shields are shattered. All is lost, and the wolves come to scavenge off the dead bodies left on the battlefield. And from there, who knows? And the meaning of life? Hope.
Although I love the movie I prefer the ending to the novella: the image of cat happily lying behind a window inspiring Fred to wonder if Holly might have found her place somewhere, too.
I started a blog and had to pick a name for it. It was about the 40th year to my 41st year on a bike and improving health. Now it pertains to when I really got serious about writing and trying to improve. It's not a mid-life crisis or anything, well, unless I achieve nothing from my efforts in the next twenty years, that is. It works for now. I could have made up something jazzy about 40 oz. bottles of malt liquor instead.
Well, part of it is that I am writing kind of a lovecraftian book and he is big on some thing being so horrible it is beyond description but also in the book what what happening was so obscene and unnatural that the narrator could not see it, things in his vision were pixelated seemed about right for what I am writing pixelated porn was born
And it still is. I'm not seeing a double meaning, though, and that would make it the most killer of all avatar handles of all time.
I have my old and new name and I would liek to put both records in this thread. My old name is Shuja which means 'Bold' / 'Brave' and my new name is Kamran which means 'Success'.
