What does your forum name/handle mean or stand for?

[durango dude]

I'm a dude that lives in Durango!

(name's Richard!)

[ironhat]

Ironhat is the translation of my last name, Eisenhuth, in German. Interestingly (at least, to me it is), this spelling of my surname is considered to be very old. In the modern spelling the terminal 'h' has been dropped.

[atgcpaul]

Ironhat is the translation of my last name, Eisenhuth, in German. Interestingly (at least, to me it is), this spelling of my surname is considered to be very old. In the modern spelling the terminal 'h' has been dropped.

I've always wondered what the significance of your handle was. Does it relate to a certain profession way back? Like blacksmith? Or one of those iron helmet wearing soldiers during the middle ages?

[JSUPreston]

In my first real job in and out of college for 8 years, I helped elucidate the DNA sequence of the first eukryotic plant genome, Arabidopsis thaliana. ATGC are the four nucleotides that make up everyone's DNA--adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. Paul is my first name.

Dang, I should've looked you up when we were in DC last week. You and my older son probably could talk for hours!

[JSUPreston]

I was at Jacksonville State University in the early to mid 90's. (Not that Jacksonville, the one about 10 miles north of Anniston, AL). A lot of us that were fortunate enough to have personal computers were on AOL. So, we used JSU with our first name as our user ID. I've used it ever since.

Like dbhost, I got an interesting user id the first time I was given an account on a Novell server. First initial with last name...plane. The irony is that I took pilot lessons for a while.

[atgcpaul]

Dang, I should've looked you up when we were in DC last week. You and my older son probably could talk for hours!

Sorry. I should have extended an invitation. Next time. I play with a lot of cool "toys" at my current job so it makes for a good tour.

[GPA61]

Mine stands for grandpa 1961, the year I was born.