Photo is self-explanatory:
That car went on to be my first race car with which I scored my first win.
Avatar is my spec miata with which I scored many more wins and two SCCA championships, pictured at the Phoenix International Raceway road course when there was such a thing.
Colin Wood said:I don't know, it's something my parents started calling me. I guess it stuck.
All jokes aside, I'm enjoying reading how everyone came up with their forum usernames. My avatar is actually the front of a Porsche 904 (if I remember correctly) that I took with my phone a few years ago at the 12 Hours of Sebring.
I think your avatar is a Porsche 907 or 908. It is not a 904. :-)
Jharry3: Grandpa went by J. Harry (jharry1). He was senior. Dad is junior (jharry2). I am the 3rd (jharry3).
All of our first and middle names are really James Henry but Harry was grandpa's nickname. So there you go.
DeadSkunk (Warren) said:The avatar is Dudley Do-right, an upstanding Canadian, like me !
And from the same show as mine!
I'm a chiropractor and usually, people just call me "Doc". Someone started saying, "here comes the doc", so that name kind of stuck. I have since seen better names!
Long time lurker (9 years and still a 'New Reader') but daily visitor (which means I need to mosey over to the support thread).
Real creative, but at the time I lived in Old Town Alexandria, VA and would work on my 1970 2002 on the street. The Avatar is from my favorite movie - Das Boot...
In reply to Old_Town :
I thought you were from Old Town, Maine!
DWNSHFT said:Colin Wood said:I don't know, it's something my parents started calling me. I guess it stuck.
All jokes aside, I'm enjoying reading how everyone came up with their forum usernames. My avatar is actually the front of a Porsche 904 (if I remember correctly) that I took with my phone a few years ago at the 12 Hours of Sebring.
I think your avatar is a Porsche 907 or 908. It is not a 904. :-)
Porsche 907, serial # 907-024
My name is Francois and my slightly dyslexic sister would call me Sanfois when she was young. I wanted to use that name but it was taken. So I changed it to Fanfoy. It's been my username all over the interwebs for nearly 20 years now.
My avatar is a little car I build for my kids 12 years ago. It was a pedal car at first, then it was electric powered and it's now a soapbox.
My name is Ian and my automotive choices are usually not what most would consider being from a sound mind.
Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter) said:I figured I didn't have anything to hide, so here I am.
^this
In reality I made the switch after the 2014 challenge. That was the year of the fiero parking lot build and my username had been willrunifchased. People were calling me Will and that's not my name.
When I was in college, me and a bunch of my friends all started out in Electrical Engineering. During my sophomore year, I switched to Meteorology. One of my buddies nick-named me "The Weatherdude". Wx being shorthand for weather (likely comes from telegraph days), I shortened Weatherdude to WxDude. 10 is my favorite number, so there you go. I've been using this nick-name since 1992/93 time frame.
Hi. I'm Scott and I like cheese.
In reply to Wxdude10 - Mike :
Minor thread jack: are you employed as a meteorologist? If yes, what do you do?
Before my story, I'll admit it. I read Trent as Jumper Kay Balls. Couldn't figure out the weirdo. Then at a totally random moment while not even on the board, like walking a grocery aisle or something as mundane, it just hit DAMMIT, that's cables......
Glueguy - I've basically been paid to make a career sniffing glue. Adhesive chemist, now all sorts of tapes to hold everything from automotive dome light wires to positive location devices for boobs.
Avatar is a couple years back when both an 80's Celica and 944 graced the stable at the same time.
DWNSHFT said:Avatar is my spec miata with which I scored many more wins and two SCCA championships, pictured at the Phoenix International Raceway road course when there was such a thing.
I raced there a lot in the early 90s when were you there?
glueguy (Forum Supporter) said:Glueguy - I've basically been paid to make a career sniffing glue. Adhesive chemist, now all sorts of tapes to hold everything from automotive dome light wires to positive location devices for boobs.
I can't seem to picture this in my mind. Can you help?
glueguy (Forum Supporter) said:
Glueguy - I've basically been paid to make a career sniffing glue. Adhesive chemist, now all sorts of tapes to hold everything from automotive dome light wires to positive location devices for boobs.
I was in the adhesives industry for almost 15 years. Hot melts primarily but when Swift/Forbo bought us out I got a crash course in aqueous glues.
Apparently when I approach my wife about purchasing something I don't necessarily need but I really really want I do this thing with my hands that looks like a lobster pinching it horde of pennies while I'm making my sales pitch...
L5wolvesf said:glueguy (Forum Supporter) said:Glueguy - I've basically been paid to make a career sniffing glue. Adhesive chemist, now all sorts of tapes to hold everything from automotive dome light wires to positive location devices for boobs.
I can't seem to picture this in my mind. Can you help?
I have a pair of positive location devices for b00bs. I call them my eyes. Like hey, look at them b00bies right there!
AngryCorvair said:In reply to Wxdude10 - Mike :
Minor thread jack: are you employed as a meteorologist? If yes, what do you do?
I am a High Performance Computing engineer now. I combine multiple servers (100's to 1000's) together with networking, storage, multiple software layers to work as a large system to be able to run problems bigger than a single system can run. Things like weather models, CFD, bulk data analysis, etc.
I worked for my first 6 years post college as a research meteorologist/software developer for MIT Lincoln Laboratory. We developed weather information systems for FAA Air Traffic controllers. Started working on Microburst prediction products, and then moved onto short-term (30-120 minute) graphical convective weather (heavy rains/thunderstorms) products to be used in the traffic controls region around airports. With out forecast, we saw traffic controllers able to reduce weather related delays at airports like DFW by 20-30 minutes just from knowing earlier when the heavy weather would clear the runways and release planes holding in the air. However, I am still a weather weenie at heart. I'm hoping to find a job in the future that allows me to kinda bring my self back to supporting the environmental sciences, just from the HPC side.
Ransom is a family name, and it's my middle name.
My first name is Jesse, and for a number of years my circle of friends was stiff with Jesses, and I was housemates with one for six years. Somewhere along the line someone found out my middle name and basically said "Jeez, that's way cooler, why didn't you say something?"
So for the last, I dunno, 25-ish years I've answered to pretty much any combination of Jesse and/or Ransom. We briefly had a band called Jesse Ransom and the Hostages.
Friends often introduce me to new people as Ransom, which is dandy. But I find if you introduce yourself as Ransom, folks look at you like you've just said your name is Rex Dagger or something.
The letters are 3 from my first name and 3 from my last - sort of modeled after Cosworth or Ilmor. The numbers were to make the name longer at some point in the ancient history of the internet and chosen as I had an O'Day 192 sailboat at the time.
I used to own a dsm and live in Minnesota. Neither of those things are currently true. Idk what my avatar is currently. I think it's the listen to Slayer I used to do to the magnet board at the baby store. Either that or it's two giraffes berkeleying- because that's funny.
Lof8 = "elevate". not "low fate" or "loaf 8" lol. I borrowed the name from some high school buddies in a reggae band who's at-home record label was Lof8 records.
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