How'd you select your username?

[SilentCal]

It's a two parter.
Silent --> It's part of an old trailname, affirmed by many I hike with that comment I have nothing much to say.
Cal --> is short for Calvin, from one of my favorite comics strips, Calvin and Hobbes.

I had Cal first but just needed something different to stick it with.

 

[noski]

SilentCal

It's a two parter.
Silent --> It's part of an old trailname, affirmed by many I hike with that comment I have nothing much to say.
Cal --> is short for Calvin, from one of my favorite comics strips, Calvin and Hobbes.

I had Cal first but just needed something different to stick it with.

And here I thought you were paying homage to Vermont's own Calvin Coolidge, aka Silent Cal.

 

[cbcbd]

I used to be into drum corps. In college I needed a machine name for the network so I took the initials of two of my favorite corps at the time, Cadets of Bergen County and Blue Devils...

I wish I had picked something that you could just say easily without having to spell it out... oh well

 

[cantdog]

Had to think of a good handle that was available when I quit ttlc.net and got a MediaOne email address. It's also a good conversation piece.

 

[SilentCal]

noski- Yeah I've heard that a lot and only thought of it after I created the name. There is a Calvin Coolidge Bridge not too far from where I live and he started his politcal career in a town just north of me. Just a weird circumstance.

 

[riverc0il]

I used to be into drum corps. In college I needed a machine name for the network so I took the initials of two of my favorite corps at the time, Cadets of Bergen County and Blue Devils...

I wish I had picked something that you could just say easily without having to spell it out... oh well

word! i was in the 'saders from 95-98. been completely out of the activity since though, but it was a good time while it lasted.

regarding my handle, i needed a handle in college when playing online gaming back in 97 or so. favorite multiplayer game back then was C&C red alert in which one of the most powerful weapons is the tesla coil. that was half a name, then i looked out my window and gazed upon the merrimack river which i always had seemed to remain near up until i graduated. switched the o to a zero because that was a geeky thing to do. thus, a strange name folks have puzzled over for years.

 

[ga2ski]

simple. gotta ski

 

[Greg]

regarding my handle, i needed a handle in college when playing online gaming back in 97 or so. favorite multiplayer game back then was C&C red alert in which one of the most powerful weapons is the tesla coil. that was half a name, then i looked out my window and gazed upon the merrimack river which i always had seemed to remain near up until i graduated. switched the o to a zero because that was a geeky thing to do. thus, a strange name folks have puzzled over for years.

So that's it? I've known you as "riverc0il" for over four years and that's the explanation? Slightly anticlimactic...

 

[riverc0il]

:lol:

well, i was hoping there was more behind "Greg" but we can't all have great stories behind our user names

 

[teachski]

My profession and what I wish I could do instead of working.

teach - I have been a teacher since 1983
ski - I have been skiing since 1966

My website address probably should have been ALBAS.com for A Look Back At Skiing, though.

 

[bvibert]

My website address probably should have been ALBAS.com for A Look Back At Skiing, though.

If it makes you feel better, that domain has been owned by a guy in Canada since 1998

 

[TenPeaks]

I don't get to hike as often as I'd like so when I was completing the NH 48 4,000 footer list I set a goal to hike 10 peaks a year. That way I'd be done in 5 years.

Now that I'm done with that list, I just try to get out and hike any old 10 peaks a year. Every year I exceed that goal.

 

[Max]

Nickname...nice to avoid the confusion between me and Dad (Jr vs Sr).

I combined it with Max Power when Homer Simpson declared he was changing his name ("Got it off a hair dryer") and started using it in my email addy.

 

[cbcbd]

I combined it with Max Power when Homer Simpson declared he was changing his name ("Got it off a hair dryer") and started using it in my email addy.

"Max Power, he's the man whose name you'd love to touch! But you mustn't touch!"
classic

 

[skijay]

Since my dad's side of the family is from the Northeast Kingdom & Townships (Canada), I spent a lot of time at my grandmother's house in Derby Line (VT). I spent almost all of my summers until I was 17 up there and then from 18 to 21 a few weeks each summer.

There is not a lot to do up there and when I got my driver's license I did a lot of driving. I used to go to Jay at least twice a week and used the pool. I have been on that tram many, many times during the summer. I have always been infatuated with Jay Peak even as a little kid as I used to love it when my parents took me there. I have skied there several times, although not as much as I used to. From my aunt's old house in Newport, you can see Jay & back of Owl's Head.

I picked skijay because I love to ski and I love Jay Peak. skijaypeak sounds like an ad, so it is just skijay.

 

[tirolerpeter]

Name?

My cousin and I have exactly the same names (first and last). So, since he was born and lived in Salzburg Austria, and I was born in the province of Tirol, Austria, they referred to him as "Salzburger Peter" and to me as "Tiroler Peter."

 

[NHpowderhound]

NHpowderhound is 'cause I'm from Texas, I own a baby powder factory and my sons mother is a female dog.
Ye-haw!
((*
*))NHPH

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

NHpowderhound is 'cause I'm from Texas, I own a baby powder factory and my sons mother is a female dog.
Ye-haw!
((*
*))NHPH

:lol: Good one hound.

 

[bvibert]

NHpowderhound is 'cause I'm from Texas, I own a baby powder factory and my sons mother is a female dog.
Ye-haw!
((*
*))NHPH

:lol: Thats exactly what I thought your name meant!

 

[deadheadskier]

um....dunno

:lol: