well, Thoth is the egyptian god of knowledge. Now, before you all get going on my ego - let me tell you where it came from:
We used to play this trivia game in college called Ubi and I used to win with regularity. So, my friends called me Thoth. It was and is the only complementary nickname that I have ever had, and so, I continue to use it where it is ok to be anonymous (that is where I am not subject to face to face derision).
Now, the reason it is Thoth2 is because I set up my account once before but never got a response sending me my password.
<strong>My user name comes from a combination of a few things:
Cosmo - My old intercom name in high school because there were two Mikes and we were all geeks with our "code names" anyway. Originally derived from Cosmo on the movie Sneakers. My friend was Bishop, and I figured Cosmo would be an appropriate name for me.
Nut - Added to the end of "Cosmo" when "Cosmo" was already being used here. It just makes the username sound like Cosmonaut, a Russian astronaut (although nothing about me is Russian). I just thought it kind of sounded cool.
So there you go.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I always thought you had one of the coolest screen names. Plus, you may have been a fan of Mazda Cosmo's, (which turns out not to be true) but is added cool-points anyway.
Rotary power forever.
Splinemodel comes from 3D modeling, which is a hobby of mine. It also has to do with a certain type of curves (spline curves), and since I'm an EE student that's another relation.
I also think it sounds good, and if you don't know what a spline is, it's easy to confuse it with spleen model, which is silly as hell ( = cool as hell for a geek).
"The Grove Rats" was an old-school 50s gang where my dad grew up (see above), and it is now a colloquial term for those living in P.G., Tx. Co-workers gave me the nickname.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Funnily enough, I always read your name as grooverat! Odd to think it's been groverat all this time... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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The Blue Meanies ("Are you...err...bluish? You look bluish!") were the monochrome bad guys in trippy 60s film 'Yellow Submarine'. But I really meant the moniker as a reference to an obscure piece of Apple trivia - Mac OS System 7 programmers were nicknamed the Blue Meanies because System 7 itself was codenamed 'Blue' (after the colour of the index cards used to list its planned features). The phrase stuck in my head because System 7 was the first version of the Mac OS I ever used. I arrived straight from Windoze 3.1 in 1995 <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> And you know what? The fact that you deleted files on a Mac by dumping them into a little virtual trash can was what turned me into a diehard Mac fan. In Windows 3.1 you had to edit obscure registries to delete files and even before I had discovered the Mac I remember thinking that that there had to be a better way to do it... <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
My name is Macintosh because I am a Mac fan and the name "Macintosh" embodies everything that is Apple... from what the Mac did for the world to what it does for me, everyday...Macintosh was the first PC with a personality and a soul, it had charisma (like Steve Jobs has) and is everything the creators of it wanted it to be...The Macintosh is one of the greatest achievments in the history of the world...the way it implemented technology and brought power to the people...the Macintosh is Apple and Apple is the Macintosh..forever.
[quote]Funnily enough, I always read your name as grooverat! Odd to think it's been groverat all this time... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <hr></blockquote>
It's either that or people think my first name is Grover. "grover at what?"
I dont know if you are being serious or not, but I most certainly am..I know sometimes we all get at each others throats and we can be at odds with certain members here, but we are all linked together by our love of the macintosh and everything that it does for us, what we do with it, and what it stands for...in our lives...for everybody, whether they be Macintosh users or not, every human being is affected by what Apple does and what the original Macintosh did. There are certain things in life that are just worth using the Macintosh, compared to putting yourself through a tough experience and having pittfalls along the way..with Apple its a joyous occassion (most of the time) and we all can relate to that here...we are all in some way devoted to computers and the way that the Mac works with each of us rather than us always dictating to it...THIS is why I love Apple, they are the best company in the world as fas as I am concerned..I dont care whether I sound cultish in saying all of this or not because it is true that Apple combines poetry, artistry, and feeling in all that they do. I sometimes try to see past Apple's mistakes because everybody makes mistakes..but Apple rarely makes one that impacts my user experience as drastically as some of the problems I experience everyday at school on PC's..
Told Nunn's tale to Simple Ranger, the damaged dust-scout, who is a old man, watched his farm blow away in the hard and depressed highwindy days of the Bowl, got farmless, but however angled some job out of F. Delano R.'s WPA and set himself up in a plywood shack on the Big Dirt between here and El Reno, drawing government pay as a watcher for major and calamitous dust. Stayed out there near on forty years til looking at the dust made him damaged. Now he's too old not to be back, roving the streets in a kind of crazy d.j. vu, Minogue Oklahoma's own toothless R. Winkle, wants to re-know the lives of his people and their children after forty alone years of trying to make out the shape of his farm in the air. Buys me my personal beers with the checks some Washington D.C. computer sends him too much of, and I tell Simple Ranger things about Minogue only he don't know.
-- David Foster Wallace, "John Billy" from Girl With Curious Hair
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well, Thoth is the egyptian god of knowledge. Now, before you all get going on my ego - let me tell you where it came from:
We used to play this trivia game in college called Ubi and I used to win with regularity. So, my friends called me Thoth. It was and is the only complementary nickname that I have ever had, and so, I continue to use it where it is ok to be anonymous (that is where I am not subject to face to face derision).
Now, the reason it is Thoth2 is because I set up my account once before but never got a response sending me my password.
Thoth
<strong>My user name comes from a combination of a few things:
Cosmo - My old intercom name in high school because there were two Mikes and we were all geeks with our "code names" anyway. Originally derived from Cosmo on the movie Sneakers. My friend was Bishop, and I figured Cosmo would be an appropriate name for me.
Nut - Added to the end of "Cosmo" when "Cosmo" was already being used here. It just makes the username sound like Cosmonaut, a Russian astronaut (although nothing about me is Russian). I just thought it kind of sounded cool.
So there you go.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I always thought you had one of the coolest screen names. Plus, you may have been a fan of Mazda Cosmo's, (which turns out not to be true) but is added cool-points anyway.
Rotary power forever.
Splinemodel comes from 3D modeling, which is a hobby of mine. It also has to do with a certain type of curves (spline curves), and since I'm an EE student that's another relation.
I also think it sounds good, and if you don't know what a spline is, it's easy to confuse it with spleen model, which is silly as hell ( = cool as hell for a geek).
<strong>Pleasant Grove, Texas.
"The Grove Rats" was an old-school 50s gang where my dad grew up (see above), and it is now a colloquial term for those living in P.G., Tx. Co-workers gave me the nickname.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Funnily enough, I always read your name as grooverat! Odd to think it's been groverat all this time... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
[ 02-25-2002: Message edited by: The Blue Meanie ]</p>
[ 02-25-2002: Message edited by: Macintosh ]</p>
J
It's either that or people think my first name is Grover. "grover at what?"
grooverat does have a certain flair to it
<strong>Amen brother!
J</strong><hr></blockquote>
I dont know if you are being serious or not, but I most certainly am..I know sometimes we all get at each others throats and we can be at odds with certain members here, but we are all linked together by our love of the macintosh and everything that it does for us, what we do with it, and what it stands for...in our lives...for everybody, whether they be Macintosh users or not, every human being is affected by what Apple does and what the original Macintosh did. There are certain things in life that are just worth using the Macintosh, compared to putting yourself through a tough experience and having pittfalls along the way..with Apple its a joyous occassion (most of the time) and we all can relate to that here...we are all in some way devoted to computers and the way that the Mac works with each of us rather than us always dictating to it...THIS is why I love Apple, they are the best company in the world as fas as I am concerned..I dont care whether I sound cultish in saying all of this or not because it is true that Apple combines poetry, artistry, and feeling in all that they do. I sometimes try to see past Apple's mistakes because everybody makes mistakes..but Apple rarely makes one that impacts my user experience as drastically as some of the problems I experience everyday at school on PC's..
Apple is the way, The way is Apple.
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-- David Foster Wallace, "John Billy" from Girl With Curious Hair
...something I read one time.
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I dont know if you are being serious or not, but I most certainly am.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I was and am.
J
[ 02-26-2002: Message edited by: Jamie ]</p>