What's the inspiration behind your user name?

[EricMinton]

Aloha

Nothing Special, just my name. I spent 43 years in Hawaii Radio, TV, and Theater. If you include the theater in High School and College I've been in theater over half a century. Heck got my first pay check in theater when I was 15. If you allowed for inflation and the number of hours on that project the $300 was more per hour than I get now as a union Stagehand.

Eric

 

[paulsbutiq]

My first foray into the internet when I was in 8th grade, America Online, needed a screenname and back then there were limits on how many characters your screenname could be. I was heavy into the Beastie Boys (still one of my faves) and Paul's Boutique was my favorite album (still is one of all time faves). shortened it to PAULSBUTIQ and that's become my go to user id ever since. Still is my primary email addy too, think I'm the last person to have an AOL address...

 

[ruinexplorer]

No, my parents still use AOL for email, though I finally got them off dial-up. Welcome aboard.

 

[DuckJordan]

my boss still has an AOL account XD

 

[MightyRedDevil]

Coming up with user names feels more stressful than naming my firstborn. So I went simple. I teach at a high school where our mascot is the Mighty Red Devil. So that's what I've become. It's not blasphemy if it's a mascot right? Although I found out from the kids that the mascot was named after an old cement company that used to be in town.

 

[thechef]

On my first tour my TM decided I talk about lighting the same way a chef talks about mixing ingredients in food. Describing rigs as "bland" and "We start with a blue base wash, and throw in a little cyan from the back for atmosphere, then a little strobe here and there for good measure". Couple that with my cocktail mixing skills, and I became The Chef.

 

[bbudd2011]

~bbudd2011~ The names comes from a character in my favorite movie "Urban Cowboy" (don't judge lol) and the 2011 was tacked on to make it more unique.
That's me and I am who I am...

 

[JohnD]

I figured JohnD would be suitable for this forum since that became my lighting guy road name. Long ago I got a call late one night asking what I was doing for the summer, we need a lighting guy, starting tomorrow. The tour already had two Johns, Big John and Little John, so I became JohnD since D was my middle initial.

 

[TheaterEd]

Theatrical Educator just seemed excessive.

 

[1deejay]

My first and middle initials were too commonly used. Since I am the first born in my family I put that up there as well. Pretty simple. I'm found on quite a few sites but I'm not the only one with the name.

 

[kenact]

With thirty plus years in theatre and running the gamut of duties, I still consider myself primarily an actor.

Gee, I thought I was going to be the only "H"actor in tech land. I'm Ken the actor, hence kenact, though I'm equally comfortable with a script or a screw driver (powered of course).

 

[jcuempire]

I have been using jcuempire since junior high (I'm 52 now). It started out as a way to do projects without having to use my real name. Partly because of modesty, but mostly for fear that it would suck. JCU stands for Jenny Crawls Upstairs which was the name of an Edison short film that appears in his records but no copies of the film exist. More than likely it was a film of a baby crawling upstairs which would have been a revelation at the end of the 19th century. I had a band called that for a while then I added the empire part because I thought it sounded cool. The rest is, well not history, but, anyway.

Keith

 

[jbreezy]

In college, we would go glow bowling every month or so. I go just for fun, despite the fact that I am a terrible bowler. I used to be a pitcher in school so I just don't have any idea how to roll a bowling ball. It's just awkward to me. I tend to loft the ball, especially if they don't have a heavy ball that fits my hand. Since I catch so much air with the ball, one of the guys started calling me "J-Breezy", and it stuck. Now every time we bowl, that's what is in the computer. He's the only one that still calls me by that name, but it is the best nickname I have picked up so far.

 

[Vamp Til Ready]

Of course, the term vamp 'til ready is used in many different contexts across performing arts and live events.

In the radio context, it refers to when you force the on air talent to talk about nothing in order to fill time before the unknown start of a special programming event. The phrase also involves frantic communication through the glass that involves interpretive hand gestures informing the poor air talent member if they need to stretch it out or start wrapping it up. The most used signal is the universal, I don't know/WTF shrug while the host gives you the "help me, I'm in pain/ when can I stop" look on their face.

I was trying to think of something radioy. On the engineering side, most of our communication comes in the form of hand signals and any spoken words tend to be profane...so vamp til ready it was...

 

[Moose Hatrack]

Moose Hatrack is from an obscure Jack Benny gag... "You need a <fill in the blank> like a moose needs a hatrack"

 

[carproelsofly]

Mine is my job title. I work at a Performing Arts Center with multiple venues. The other rooms have five departments heads: Carpentry, Props, Electrics, Sound and Fly. I'm the only one in my venue, and have all of the titles rolled into one.

 

[MichaelPHS]

Normally I go by mikklee, or mikklee1 if its taken (Mike = Mikle = Mikklee) but my nickname from college is the same as my dad's, Swanny. Started as there was three Michaels on my college course, and since my last name is Swann, it kinda evolved from that. Not sure why I went for MichaelPHS (Name and initials of my employers), probably because i was trying to come across all professional or something

 

[sonicdeluxe]

I was starting a hotmail account, way back in '95 when hotmail was hot. Since it was going to be used for porn sites I didn't want to use my name so I looked around and saw my guitar, a Gibson 180 sonex deluxe. So a slight spelling change so as to not dishonor my Gibson and voila, a nickname was born. I started to use it for log in names everywhere because it was unique and I never had to put any numbers behind it.

 

[Jammer]

On many other forums, you are required to use your given name to identify yourself. Here on Control Booth, we don't have that limitation and many of us have chosen a different monicker to identify ourselves. I was wondering, why did you choose the user name that you have? If you use your given name, is there a reason that you stayed with that as opposed to choosing something different?

I identify as ruinexplorer on many forums. The main reason, for those of you who have seen my posts or read my intro, is that my original career goal was to be an archaeologist. In particular, I specialized in civilizations as opposed to tribal or nomadic cultures. I am extremely fascinated with how people create to make a world unto themselves and how external forces help to form their decisions.

So, how about others?

Well I used to work in Electronic Warfare when I was on active duty in the Navy and also played electric bass for many years so I love to jam : )

 

[ruinexplorer]

Welcome to the Booth, Jammer!