why did you choose your username?

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When I first made my account, I didn't plan on posting much, therefore remaining "Silent". I ended up posting more than I thought I would.

I also wanted it because of the Silence on Doctor Who

This is the only website where I use this name, and I kind of wish I had my other username on here so they would all be the same, but oh well.

Why "Fnord"?

Why not?

Someone once said to me, "You know so much; you could fit in anywhere!" At the time, I didn't know whether to laugh in her face or start crying. She was a guidance counselor and I had asked her for help in deciding my major.

Fast forward about a decade. I was taking a course in programming when I kept encountering a variable called "fnord". I asked the instructor why this variable was being used for strings, integers, floating point values, and array designators.

He said, "Because it's metasyntactic".

By golly! That was the first word that I'd had to look up since fifth grade! It means "something that fills in for or references other things", and that it "is used in multiple contexts and functions". That was me! I was always the stand-in, the substitute, or the jack-of-all-trades. Cool!

The term "elbowgrease" has always made me giggle. I remember being young and trying to figure out what it meant.

i'm thinking now my username is boring

Mr. Robot is obviously because of the amazing show of the same name! In addition to that, it is due to the fact that i used to get called 'robot' by former classmates

Gallia is the region Gaul. I'm half french and I always sided with the gauls against the roman empire

My user name is in tribute to a kid who defended me against bullies when I was 9 years old. He was the same age as me. We were bunkmates in camp.

We were playing a softball tournament, and we needed nicknames for the back of our t-shirts. He said that I was "crafty," meaning clever/smart. Then, either he or I thought about the alliteration between "Krafty" and my last/surname, which diminutive is "Kortie."

Kraftykortie just doesn't look as good as Kraftiekortie.