Explain your handle / De construct your avatar

[Stauffbier]

My last name is Stauffer, I'm of German heritage, and I drink beer... Hence, Stauffbier..

The avatar is my family crest, which I thought was fitting since it's a picture of a hand with a goblet!

 

[Piratwolf]

Pirat is from my college days. Made a lot of loud, unintelligible noises ("Yarrr!") when drunk and was part of a fraternity ending with "pi", so I guess it was a no-brainer for my friends. The wolf part is from Pulp Fiction, the character Winston Wolf. Got that nickname waiting tables b/c I became the guy who could rescue even the worst table from disaster.

Both of those were long ago, but the combo works as a fairly unique forum name.

The pic is from the day I brewed my 1st 10-gal batch of my favorite beer in my new propane tank/AG set up!

 

[jmprdood]

Jmprdood = because I have 5000+ parachute jumps between military and skydiving.

Avatar = I'm a fanatic about Gonzaga Univ basketball

 

[C-Rider]

Can't remember if I talked about this before so here goes again.

WAY back, long ago in the IBM computer world you could only use 8 characters to name a file. Back then I was teaching high school and we were given two free internet accounts by a local provider. The school nickname is the Sea Riders which was way to long so I came up with crider-1 and crider-2.

I put the name on my truck license plate as well C-RIDER

Since I surf well use to, I have the picture of me w/my surfboard as I am/was a Sea Rider. :cross:

 

[Qhrumphf]

My handle started as an inside joke between my wife and I, more of a guttural sound than anything of meaning (someone pretty accurately described it as a noise you'd make when you get punched in the stomach). I like it, and I never have to worry about someone else taking it...

As for my avatar, rude boys everywhere. Need no further explanation

 

[shelly_belly]

shelly_belly is the name of my youngest son's Russian Tortoise. My avatars are just random.

 

[JLem]

Pretty simple really, my handle is my name, akin to 'J-Lo' or 'A-Rod'

And don't mess with Charlie D. or I'll have to get all gangsta on your ass

 

[looneybomber]

While playing the original quake over the network during class (HS), I killed a bunch of folks at once and shouted out "I am the unibomber" and one of the guys playing said "more like the looneybomber". 15 years later, I still use it.

 

[malevolent]

Malevolent/malevolant has been my internet handle since i was like 10 years old. Never outgrown it.

 

[Dawnhulio]

'Dawnhulio' arose from a particular few episodes of 'Beavis and Butthead' back in the day. Some of you may remember that Beavis pulled his t-shirt over his head and ran about screaming 'I am the Great Cornholio! TP for my bunghole!' etc. etc.

I was working in management at a retail store - during the Christmas season - dealing with nasty customers and staff issues. I was stressed out; and ran into the storeroom where employees where eating their lunch. I kicked my shoes at the wall and pulled my shirt up over my head a la Beavis and ran about screaming 'I am the great Dawnholio, TP for my bunghole!!! Corn, you call it maize, etc. etc.' which got a laugh out of the staff and got me laughing. The next day I came to work to find that someone had changed the name on my name tag to 'The Great Dawnhulio (sic)' and it stuck. My nickname has been 'Dawnhulio' or 'The Great Dawnhulio' ever since (along with the name tag misspelling).

The avatar is a picture of me doing what I do best... relaxing and enjoying a beer or two. In this picture I am at McMenamin's Edgefield campus, enjoying a Terminator Stout. (hence 'Stout Chick Brewing')...

 

[Diaperload]

I have two knobs.

I should change my screen name to 3 balls then.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

In 1986, I was given a copy of The Complete Joy of Home Brewing. I brewed a batch and wanted to make a label. The only graphic I had was a rat (on dot matrix printer and trs80 computer). I still have the book with the labels from my first 5 brews stuck to the back cover.

 

[Dan]

My avatar? Just a picture of myself. Ha!


Ya right. Figured if I was going to put some photo up as an avatar might as well be 007 We are on the same team.

 

[CBXBob]

My avatar? Just a picture of myself. Ha!


Ya right. Figured if I was going to put some photo up as an avatar might as well be 007 We are on the same team.

And I thought the picture was Rod Serling

 

[NervousDad]

Father or two little girls and I worry about everything .

Avatar Bill Murray from the site thechive.com which I find I have to view everyday

 

[djt17]

My initials + 17, Matt Kenseths number. Looks like I am going to need a new handle for next year. And of course Andy Capp, my hero; he has gotten away with his shenanigans for a long timne.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

My avatar is Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni. She kicked some Roman @ss.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

In season one of Eastbound and Down, Kenny Powers refers to himself as the reverse apache master, among other names. I liked it. I stole it. I am now the reverse apache master.

 

[RuffRider]

I am currently a Master Chief on active duty in the U.S. Navy and my avatar is the symbol for my rank. Loud and proud baby! Hooyah! As for my handle, back in the day, when I was serving on the great ship USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65), the guys I worked with called me Ruff Rider and it stuck. Rider is like a phonetic pronunciation of my last name.

 

[hungry4hops]

My avatar is a bourbon barrel that was used to make dark intrigue I purchased it from victory brewing company in the back of my 03 civic si. My user name pretty much self explanatory I have never had a beer that was too hoppy

 

[H-ost]

H-ost

My name is Hans Osterstrom.... simple

The pic is a beer, some dice, and some cards. I like to play games and am a crafty card player. Oh, and I like beer...

 

[paithian]

My man hmmm from a book called elven star as for avatar its all picked out just gotta fork out the cash

 

[Catfish78]

Catfish is a nickname I was given by a friend about 17 years ago and it stuck. Some people only know me as Catfish. The 78, easy, YOB.

 

[CBXBob]

Father or two little girls and I worry about everything .

Avatar Bill Murray from the site thechive.com which I find I have to view everyday

Think your nervous? My son has 4 little girls, he's toast!

 

[kaconga]

A guy I went to highschool with was quirky. Instead of awesome or cool he would say 'kaconga' or 'good gravy' when he liked something. I thought kaconga was pretty funny and knew it would never be used for any gamer tag or email. So I have been kaconga for 12 years now.

No avatar yet but it would definitely have to be something to do with the outdoors when I get around to it. I am an avid angler and hiker when not obsessing over food and beer.

 

[DeafSmith]

Deaf Smith (pronounced Deef Smith) was a famous character from Texas history - served as a scout for Sam Houston. Seemed appropriate for me - I live in Texas, I'm about half deaf, and my middle name is Smith.

The avatar - a picture of one of my slide rules. For those who are thinking "What the hell is a slide rule?", there was a time, not so long ago, when there were no personal computers, no cell phones, no iPods or iPads, no interwebz, not even pocket calculators. If you needed to make some calculations involving more than addition and subtraction, you had a choice: pencil and paper, a table of logarithms, or a slide rule. In fact, the slide rule was as much a symbol of the engineer as a stethoscope is a symbol of a doctor. I'm old enough to remember those days - a slide rule was my constant companion in college and my first few years on the job as an engineer. When I bought my first electronic calculator in 1973, I tossed my slide rule in a drawer, not to see the light of day until I got interested in slide rules again a few years ago. I realized what an amazingly clever instrument the slide rule is and began collecting them. Anyway, the avatar pic is a low resolution version of a pic I posted on a slide rule forum to show how I modified the cursor to change the folded scales from being folded at pi to being folded at sqrt(10), which has some advantages. Yeah, I know, that's TMI.

I do use a slide rule in brewing - once I know my preboil volume and gravity, I can see at a glance what the gravity will be for a given post boil volume, or conversely, what volume I will have for a given OG. For this job, slide rule > digital calculator.

 

[Dan]

Deaf Smith (pronounced Deef Smith) was a famous character from Texas history - served as a scout for Sam Houston. Seemed appropriate for me - I live in Texas, I'm about half deaf, and my middle name is Smith.

The avatar - a picture of one of my slide rules. For those who are thinking "What the hell is a slide rule?", there was a time, not so long ago, when there were no personal computers, no cell phones, no iPods or iPads, no interwebz, not even pocket calculators. If you needed to make some calculations involving more than addition and subtraction, you had a choice: pencil and paper, a table of logarithms, or a slide rule. In fact, the slide rule was as much a symbol of the engineer as a stethoscope is a symbol of a doctor. I'm old enough to remember those days - a slide rule was my constant companion in college and my first few years on the job as an engineer. When I bought my first electronic calculator in 1973, I tossed my slide rule in a drawer, not to see the light of day until I got interested in slide rules again a few years ago. I realized what an amazingly clever instrument the slide rule is and began collecting them. Anyway, the avatar pic is a low resolution version of a pic I posted on a slide rule forum to show how I modified the cursor to change the folded scales from being folded at pi to being folded at sqrt(10), which has some advantages. Yeah, I know, that's TMI.

I do use a slide rule in brewing - once I know my preboil volume and gravity, I can see at a glance what the gravity will be for a given post boil volume, or conversely, what volume I will have for a given OG. For this job, slide rule > digital calculator.

+1 on nostalgia. And using your brain.

 

[pstrohs]

pstrohs: nickname that comes from an abbreviation of my first and last name.

avatar: It goes to eleven...nuff said.

 

[unionrdr]

That's a cool sirname for a home brewer! If I remember right,it was Yohan Peter Stroh that started the brwery baring his name...

 

[pm5k00]

I have been using this handel since about 1998.... pm5k is a band, powerman5000, not that great of a band but I really like one of their albums back in high school, and I graduated in the year 2000. So there you go pm5k + 2000 = pm5k00. Avatar is a neon sign of my favorite sports team, the Anaheim Angels (they are not in LA and I refuse to refer to them as such).