Where did you get the idea for your name?

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Yeah, I make it obvious by the numerous amount of times I write 'my daughter'. I think I've only called her 'Peanut' on here a few times (never in real life), but that was because I was needing to give 'my daughter' a break.

I'm a bit crazy, not exactly young anymore, a social recluse and a cat owner. If I was female, people would probably call me a crazy old cat lady. But since I'm male, I'm more of a crazy cat lord A crazy middle-aged cat lord to be precise, but that was too long.

There can be only one!

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It's taken from an interview on the English band Spiritualized.

Carl Sagan used to talk about terraforming ( making habitable) other planets like Mars. According to him one of the early steps would be to have "robot Johnny Appleseeds" traverse the surface seeding the planet with plants. Johnny Appleseed ofcourse was the mythic guy in early american legend who seeded the then wild Ohio Valley frontier with apple trees ( based on a real apple entrepreneur of the time). So your nickname sounds like a reference to this vision of a future greenier outerspace.

I was reading an article about Baltic amber in the Smithsonian Magazine- that transluscent mineral stuff that they carve things out of and it sometimes has 30 million year old bugs trapped in it- and its really fossilized tree sap.

The article explained that Baltic amber is "a kind of natural plastic- which sounds like a contradiction in terms..."

The article then iwent on to explain how amber is made of the same kind of polymers as plastic.

I paused for a moment to just savior the phrase "natural plastic". It just sounded so cool-a good name for a rock band. It has a rythmn to it.

Then there is the seeming contradition that plastic could be ''natural'. As a name for a band it would covey many layers of possible meaning.

Then forgot about it for years, but then had to scramble to think of a name when I registered here.

I love watching as well as playing cricket and everytime i appeal to the umpire i say howzat so that is why i chose this as my username.

Kurgan & Howzat have supercool pseudonyms that's it..

Well, I think my mother had nine months to think about it. My name is Danielle, thought. I just used a short way of it. It should be Dani, but I'm kind of tired of it.

I rejected a bunch of names I had used earlier, and then some which (when I looked up their origin) turned to out to have unpleasant associations. Then the one I preferred (which was a pun for which I had a funny profile pic) was taken, so I went with my second choice.

Pyrite is something best known for being mistaken for something else of similar appearance but not being accorded anywhere near the same level of (socially constructed) value, but which when understood in its own terms rather than as a pale reflection of something else is found to have its uses.

The profile pic is the lamest phonetic pun I could think of . It ended up looking like an ideogram (a Chinese/Japanese/Korean character), so I'd be curious as to whether people had trouble telling what it was supposed to be.

Makes me think maybe I should have called myself Jesss...

yeah i like reading the story of your username - it does not get old. and thank you!

That sounds like an interesting book. I thought about reading something by him, but never know where to start.

I'd recommend starting with any of these: The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly,

My best friend was a little bird, she used to s**t on my shoulder and tweet in my ear. Sadly one night as I was popping the cork of my favourite bottle of wine she had a heart attack, fell off her perch and died. The name 'Babybird' is just me paying tribute to her short lived but most meaningful life.

I only had to flip on my name to get my account name, except the 350 part, i thought it would sound "rad" with it.

I am a huge fan of The Joker and i know everything about him that's why I chose the name Joker.