This is a cool thread. Well, Penny is my 12-year-old lab mix. Maybe not for too much longer-- she's looking pretty rough recently. I use this on a few forums (including mandolincafe and rvforums), so if you ever notice it it's probably me.

Cool, I'm currently working as a Map Technician, helping with the management of mining claims for our province. We use ArcMap which I'm sure you're familiar with.

I retired after 38 years in the insurance business. Hence the name Riskdr1. The license plate on my car is RISK DR.

My screen name is intended to be complete nonsense.

Mine comes from "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread". I started using tread on some forums, but that id was taken, so now I'm treadtread. I'm probably doubly foolish anyway :)

When I joined this forum my only bike was a hybrid made by Giant whose name is "Doofus." So, I'm Giant Doofus. I name my bikes after the personality characteristics they elicit from me. My new commuter is an Achielle Oma named "Sassy."

Giant really made a "Doofus"? What a great name! It puts Surly in a bind. (Name wise)

"Moto" because I really love Motobecane, both "real" and modern.

"Legs" as a shameless ripoff of the poster Tractorlegs.

No, but that would have been awesome. The bike is a Giant Cypress DX. I just call her Doofus. Of course, I also call my dogs "doofus." It's a term of affection.

Interesting, every time i've seen your name I assumed it had something to do with Hawaiian sovereignty. I've also thought it strange that you live in California with that handle. I figured you were were a transplant from Hawaii to California. In many parts of Hawaii the issue of sovereignty is still a big deal.

Mine is, as some have found out on another thread, simply my full name spelled backward. I'm Marc Simard
I use this everywhere, it's even in my email.

I purchased my very first bicycle a Dahon Piccolo with 16' inch wheels! My first name is Steve so I put it together. I eventually ran that bike into the ground.

USN nuclear mechanic for six years. Not in the industry at the moment although I've considered going back to school for electrical engineering. Also tossing around going into a physician's assistant program. I hate being indecisive.

When I first came across the term, I thought it would make a good band name and started using it as an email. I don't stick to one name across boards, I have three or four that I fall back on (although this one is the most common on cycling boards because I made like five accounts one night a couple of years ago).

That would have been SO awesome. My Dad rides a Giant Cypress every day pretty much. Found it at a thrift store and he thought it was a mountain bike. I had no idea what to compare it to. After purchase and subsequent riding, I'm pretty sure it's one of mankind's greatest inventions next to microwave popcorn. It's a living room on wheels.

Everywhere else on the web, I'm brucew. It's my first name and last initial.

On all the other bike forums, Linux forums, men's longhair forum, music forums, whatever, I'm brucew. My dot-com? brucew.com. Email? brucew@brucew.com I've been brucew since long before I even owned a dot-com, which I registered back in 1997. Hell, even at work, we have brucet (my boss) and brucew.

When I signed on here, some imposter had taken it! :eek: He hadn't used it in a couple of years, but the policy at the time was they wouldn't re-assign it. I know that now they consider it, and others have changed their account names, but after all these years everyone here knows me as TSL, so TSL it stays.

TSL, BTW, are the initials of the web-hosting firm I owned at the time, The Secret Labs (not to be confused with another web firm, called simply Secret Labs). I sold the company in May 2008. The buyers had their own branding already, so they dropped the registration for the name. Looks like a speculator picked up the name in 2009.

Wow. It was a brain fart that inspired mine.

Sauge is French for sage, the herb. That I've put 'sage' in my name is an in-joke that people who visit a different part of the internet will understand. Basically it says I'm self-effacing, or that I'm not taking my posts very seriously.

as I kid I watched Speed Racer... so long ago when I created a Compuserve acct.. hell a usenet acct for that matter..many variations were taken.. so I went with spdntrxi..for Speed and Trixie... the wife and I obviously.

Oh! I thought you were being extra self-effacing.

Mine is pretty pedestrian, but I can remember it. I'm a pastor in Circle Pines, Minnesota.

Aha! I had been wondering, since I've noticed you were "brucew" everywhere else I'd followed a link. :)

There used to be two of us.

Our common year of birth was the smallest part of why were were friends and we formed an exclusive club of two, which amused her to no end... she was taken far too soon.

So with this, I remember her.

I'm 6-5", and I've traveled to 60 countries, and all of our states.

Sparky and Beacon are trail names I received while hiking. I am going to stick with Beacon. I like it because it is biking-related. My biking raingear is my hiking raingear. On one hiking trip we had several days of rain and chilly weather. I wore my bright high-vis jacket and pants. Even in the gloom and mist, my friends could see me a long way off.

I'm a jarhead (now retired) and was about to go on a deployment on a Navy Carrier a term we often called going "on float" and I needed an e-mail to keep in touch with home. So I came up with onfloat and it's always available when I sign up for an e-account, so...