noticed a few really groovy names around here so....where is ur nickname from and how u come up with it?

for this name i swaped the letters around in another popular well liked name , my main name is in my signature - it comes from playing counterstrike and have had it for almost 6 years

nephilim comes from "fields of the nephilim", a new wave group I used to listen to a lot when I was (a lot) younger . Somehow, the name stuck...

Skyline

Nissan Skyline GTR R34

Kramer have disguised himself as Dr Van Nostrand several times. And Kramer is funny.

I'm not very creative, Chu is my name

Misel is a mixture of my family name ("Misch") and a really bad handwriting and a friend who pointed out that my signature looks like "Misel"

Whitehat = ethical hacker. (trys to keep the bad crackers away by hacking stuff just the same, but not damaging stuff.) I do this for my company and I find holes and such to patch. Last year I found an exploit that let me get through our firewall and into our email server without passwords or accounts . Gotta keep ahead of the bad guys.

The good old battle between good and evil.

Whitehats vs. Blackhats

Blackhat = nonethical hacker/cracker (one who cracks just to damage or gain at the expense of someone else)

I do not claim at all to know everything. There are always people out there that know more than you, are stronger than you, smarter than you, etc.

I know very little in comparison.



Whitehat

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On a side note:
I Wondered if that was it Cool car!

Yep, in hidsight, I should have put something like "how original" in my post, everyone else has managed a quip, or explanation, whilst mine ended up a boring literal connection anyways, an awesome car, only wish I had a spare £40,000 to get a nice newish one

I'm not very creative either. SChatoor stands for Sohail Chatoor, which is my name.

Brigadier General Xavier Prawnhelmet III, of the King's Own 1st Foot and Mouth Glasshouse Deserters (Suicide Squad).

Basically a joke name I came up with a school, shortened for convenience

My initials are JS and I like penguins.

luxitan its a mix from lusitania, portugal's original name, lust (luxuria in portuguese), and lucifer

i spent a few hours thinking of a unique nick, just to don't have to get a new nick every time i needed to register somewhere, my nicks were already taken, never happened again

mine is like a brainstorm that doesn't have quite enough energy/brain power.

joesbox was the first name i gave my linux box. i kinda kept it as a nick but changed my box name. ( i wasn't real creative when i started using linux. must be from having everything done for me by windows)

"Mieuwsel" is a word from the rather personal , homegrown slang , the wife and I use.
Basically it boils down to "That , what does "Mieuw!"(Meow!) "; the attention-demanding sound a cat makes.(I can be an attention-whore at times)
Combined with the prefix "Mega" , my handle kinda means "MegaCat" ; We run a pedigree-cattery with the name "Megamieuwsel Inc.".
It would've been a lot more obvious , if these boards allowed for avatars....

http://forums.illusionfxnet.com/uploads//av-7141.jpg
(That's one of the kittens , our cattery spawned)
But IRL people have to live with how I really look like:
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/23085/incoming/Ikke2.jpg