What’s in a name?
Over the years, I’ve had quite a few online nicknames, and for the life of me, I’m not sure why I haven’t stuck with one. The latest one, geekgamerdad, while it does describe me, doesn’t seem to fit me. Of late, I’ve taken to using ‘thefubar’. I had to add ‘the’ in front of it simply because there are a lot of other ‘fubar’s out there, but it’s a term that’s stuck with me since high school and my BBS days. I still remember people asking me where it came from. Most seem to think it came from that old ‘Tango and Cash’ movie, but actually it’s a term that was thrown around a lot in the fire service. I sometimes miss those days of volunteering with the fire department, but things have changed a
lot since then. I’ve got a wife and child to think about, and the last thing I’d want to happen is to have mommy have to tell our daughter that daddy’s not among us anymore.
This leads me into my next thought. Just how many email accounts do I really, truly need? I’ve got my main one, brad, here at endperform.org; I’ve got geekgamerdad at gmail, I’ve got geek_gamer_dad at yahoo. On the IM side, it’s the same story. So, what am I going to do about it? For starters, I do want to standardize on one username and stick with it. ‘thefubar’ seems to work just fine for me. Of course, if you’re on my IM list somewhere, I won’t change without letting you know what the new username is. I’m just at a point where I want to get everything somewhat aligned, hopefully without having to re-create many accounts.
While I’m on the subject of change, I’m looking to change up my desktop again. I’ve been running with XFCE and AWN for a while, but it’s starting to get stale. At work, I think I may revert back to Ubuntu, just for the sake of sanity and being able to deal with that box a bit better. I may give KDE4 another look, but only at home… I don’t think the work machine has enough graphical horsepower to deal with it. I used to love KDE, but the 4.x series has a way to go to win me back. People are saying 4.2 will be better, so I might wait until then and try.
