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[Sphere]

Well, what's the story behind your nickname?

Mine:
It started in FF8 (the game) I didn't really like the name of the main character (Squall) so I wanted something else that fitted both me as well as the game.
I came up with Sphere

I never really used it since until I started my own company, and I needed a good sounding name. I remembered the name Sphere, and called my company "Sphere Design"

Ever since I've been using the name Sphere online

[Neon]

I was KW13 but since i'd changed i thought i would change my name.

i am the lamp that shines in the darkness...well not exactly but it sounds better

[error51]

I have always wanted to fly high end military research development type planes so I'm a big fan of the fantasy around Area 51 in the Nevada desert. For those of you that don't know where that is, it's pretty much a big whole in the desert that is owned by the US government. If you ever go inside it without permission you usually don't come back. Anyways it is a "top secret" testing facility for the up and coming technology of flight and other stuff. I combined that with Error because of the blue screen full of errors that computers like to give out. There is the story behind Error51.

[clarky3429]

mine is such a rivvating story....

....my nickname is clarky and my postcode is 3429.....

i have more than 1 alias, but clarky3429 is the only public one who i let people know who i am....

[patman174]

Well, I've been using mine for about the past 9 years. One of my friends said patman sounded good, so I used that along with some catchy numbers and came up with patman174 lol

[Nvyseal]

ME? If I told you i'd have to kill you!

[tntoak]

Actually mine is very simple. I grew up in Tennessee and now live in Alaska, so I came up with TNtoAK, or tntoak. I've been surprised at how many people think it's 'tnt' 'oak' over the years.

[Nvyseal]

tntoak, on May 22 2006, 10:59 PM, said:

Actually mine is very simple. I grew up in Tennessee and now live in Alaska, so I came up with TNtoAK, or tntoak. I've been surprised at how many people think it's 'tnt' 'oak' over the years.

Man, that was a big move, What is it like in alaska? long days long nights? strange looking sky? I bet you get sick of crab!

[simon]

My nickname started back in high school and it stuck.... I have trouble using on the net for usernames because its so common

[tntoak]

Right now, it doesn't get dark until around Midnight, but the sun starts rising again around 4:30 AM. The strangest part is that the sun moves completely differently than it does in Tennessee. It moves around the sky instead of across the sky. Even at night, you can still see daylight to the north of Anchorage. In Fairbanks, it's even more apparent, as they aren't far from the Arctic Circle.

[Nvyseal]

that sure would be kind of neat to experience What is the average Temprature there in the summer??

[tntoak]

The average temp depends on where you live. In Anchorage, we usually hit around 10-15 F in winter and upper 70's in summer. Fairbanks, OTOH, can hit -50 F in winter and 90+ F in Summer. Right now, the official sunrise is around 4:28AM, with the official sunset around 11:30PM. However, from around June 4-July 8, we do not have a "civil sunrise" or "civil sunset" - meaning that while the sun is not visible, there is still sunlight on the horizon - meaning it will not get completely dark.

Just to give you an idea of how strange this transition has been (there is no spring season here - at least in the usual sense) - we had snow fall the 1st week of MAy, and high temps in the mid 50's until last week. Last week, the trees went from dead to full bloom, temps shot up into the upper 70s, and it finally started feeling like summer had arrived.