What does your username mean?

It's been my username since I started planning my wedding in '04. I went to UNC - Charlotte and so did my husband. He played basketball there, so I was a fan, thus charlotte49ers.

Not that exciting.

Another word for large intestine is "colon." Not hard to figure it out.

Mine is Romanian, meaning "little impaler". I guess you can tell from my user name that I'm into the history of Vlad Tepes. But I'm not Romanian, I just have an interest in that country, and in Hungary as well.

Maxmordón is a medieval Spanish word from unknown origin meaning someone insignificant who passes unnoticed.

I'm a bad-tempered old dragon, especially before my first cup of coffee.

my name is jenn. when I registered, I lived on an island.

I looked up at the calendar while registering.

When I was in grade 9, the whole grade sought out a way to fund our junior high grad. We had a wakeathon and during this wakeathon, we had the computer labs. I don't know how but we managed to play Duke Nukem 3D in school so we played Duke Nukem for the whole night. I needed a login name.

Now I need to let you know that, at the time, I was a huge Greek mythology geek AND a huge geography geek. So when I wanted to choose the name of the three-headed hound of Hades, I wanted Cerberus. However, being the geography geek and having a documented working memory deficit, I chose the old name of an island in Indonesia, Celebes now Sulawesi. After playing the whole night with this name, I grew attached to it. But coming home and thumbing through the daily leafing through the antiquated atlas from the 80's, I realised my error. Over the course of a year, Celebes evolved to Xelebes, just to make the connection less obvious.

The Thinker is from The X-Files. 42 is the meaning of life.

When I started playing in poetry, I was told that poetry comes from reflections of life. I'm sure my poetry has to do with some reflection on my life, but mostly, I like to play with words.

Albedo is a measurement of reflection; 0 albedo is total black or no reflection, hence, my username—tongue-in-cheek.

BTW, the albedo of the Earth is a wavering 0.367.

Gawd, meh name is boring!

Eyeblink is the title of an old stalled novel of mine which I'll go back to one day.

Eldritch means ghostly, unearthly, spooky, strange--all the things I love to read and write about. It's also the way a lot of people pronounce my last name.

I seriously lack imagination.

I thought about going with the full Sunday version, Franchesca, but I'm really just Fran. I'm only Franchesca when I'm dressed up all pretty and trying to be a sophisticated grown-up.

When I joined up, I'd just finished studying maths - including parametric equations.

From my fantasy book, a high moon elven name Sadron, and now my Sith character's name. It's selfmade name.

maxmordon said:

Maxmordón is a medieval Spanish word from unknown origin meaning someone insignificant who passes unnoticed.

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... cool. Can relate
One of my favorite, related, words is supernumerary: a person who appears in a play or film without speaking lines or as part of a crowd; walk-on; extra. (from dictionary. com)

Ambrosia means nectar or food of the gods... which I believe writing to be -- and I am a fantasy nut.

I'm always outted as an idiot at some point, because I have these funny five minutes and then.....

This name saves time.

Depending where you look, seun is either Irish, Scottish or Nigerian with various meanings.

I take the meaning for good luck or charm. I used it in a couple of my early books and liked the sound of it.

sohalt = "just because" in German. (rather colloquial)

Having to fill in things sometimes puts me in an uncommunicative mood.

Annayna I have no idea lol.. Just came to me one day

When I was younger I was a huge Falconry nut. I used to bring books about it to school and I had a friend of mine who was a falconer (I wasn't old enough, only like 14) bring in his hawk and do a demonstration in the school gym for my classmates. Thus, I had this really cool teacher who started calling me Hawk. That became my nickname for that year and that teacher still calls me that any time he sees me.

Then in my later years of High School I got really in to Amateur Pyrotechnics. Like the serious kind, I have a stock pile of chemicals and tools and buid aerial shells and rockets and such. I'm actually quite good and can make pretty much any kind of firework and can do most effects though with questionable success sometimes But anyway because of that my friends started calling me Pyro.

When I joined this pyrotechnics forum, which ironically has teh exact same format and color as this one..... I just combined the two nicknames of Hawk and Pyro into Pyrohawk. Then I realized that would be a Phoenix so I started using that as my symbol and it stuck.... here I am.

Edit: Jeeesh....why do I always feel the need to write an epic essay to answer questions everyone else answers in a sentence. I should have just wrote.... Its a combo of two nicknames I've had in my life. Guess I just like to hear myself talk.

I swear to God I didn't steal Albedo of Zero's name! I didn't even know he/she existed when I joined. I just took letters out of my first and last name to spell a word.