HOW A SKINNER GOT HIS NAME
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Come with me if you will to a land far away and a time before skinning.

Picture the scene. A moonlit night in India. A woman wracked with pain. A man trying desperately to stay awake by drinking lots of tea.

Suddenly there it is. A screaming messy baby and a terrible choice.

The choice was hard and fraught with danger. And what was this most terrible choice you ask?

* cue dramatic music *

What to name their son?

* end dramatic music *

James (after his Father) or Philip (after someone else)? They grappled long and hard for what seemed like an age (but may have actually been seconds) and hit upon a cunning plan. They would use both!

But just when they thought they were out of the woods and running for home they found they had another choice.

* Cue stunned silence *

The choice was hard and fraught with danger. And what was this most terrible choice you ask? (Feeling a sense of deja vu yet)?

Why, it was which order to put the names. The wrong choice could doom their son to a lifetime of not having a catchy nickname. They sat and thought for another time that seemed an age (but may have ben seconds) and finally (after maybe even flipping a coin, although that may just be a corruption to the original story) bestowed the names on him. (He was also given the name Powell as a matter of course).

One day this bouncing baby boy (in his twenties) happened upon a wonderful land where wishes come true and dreams are made (and no it wasn't BoXXi's magical dragon land). It was called skinzorg or somethign similar. But before he could enter the wonderful land (flowing with skins and themes) he had to complete a task. The fiendish task was to find a name for himself.

Being an impatient sort with little imagination he just stuck his first two initials to his last name and entered the wondrous land.

And thus the skinner known to some as pj others as pjpowell and still others as 'The one who did that Thredz theme for DesktopX ages ago but doesn't do much else' and yet still others as 'Who? Oh, never heard of him.' got his name.

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Sorry for wasting your time here. The way I got my my nickname is so mundane I thought I'd make it sound interesting.

Phillip, I have sent you an e-mail, I hope that address in your profile is current!

I love gadgets and gizmo's and anything electronic my house is full of them -friends kept calling me the gizmoqueen and it just stuck

pjpowell tries not to mention Madice is a girls name in belgian or something.

Jafo - that would be 'derogatory', not 'derrogatory'

mine is boring.

i was on an IRC chat channel one time and Ryan was taken so i added 4 random numbers on the end of it

Those on Stardock IRC know me as 'ed'. Though that is not how I started out on irc. Originally I used WizofOZ because I was currently developing ObjectZip (sorry Jafo, nothing to do with your esteemed country). At the time the Stardock channel was on Efnet and I started getting private messages from people I didn't know. Being the naive sort sometimes, I didn't realize the Wizard of OZ is highly prized by the gay community. I am a married heterosexual and I didn't really like being contacted like this. Some of them were quite rude, so I had to find a different nick. Being less than original, I just went with the short version of my first name. By the time I got over to Wincustomize to register, 'ed' had already been taken. Somebody was as original as me , I felt proud . I was rereading LOTR at the time (before the movies ) and Faramir was the first name that popped in to my head. I kinda liked it and here I am.

I feel so ordinary, my nick is my initials. I used them because my first nick got wiped out on one of ls.nets many crashes and someone else took it when it went back up.

Stefan --- Stef --- Peff....go figure

I'm always on the go, never stop. I even have my computer set up so that I can stand at it, rather than sit. That way, I can take off at a moment's notice. Go! Go! Go! A heart attack waiting to happen. Gotta keep movin'! See Ya!

I always imagined Stardock was because they were giving us infinity... it was the image I had from the name. If I were going to reach for the stars, I would want it to be in all this beauty!

wulfn1.......my wife calls me wulfy sometimes.
My closest friends calls me Wolf...... I like your nick!


Bangkokboy.... I couldn't live with Furry Reasoning.

I think I tried one nic once and hated it cuz it did not feel like me... hehe

anyways you guys are stuck looking at my name...