Avatars &Nicknames

I used to use my initials in the beginning in cyberspace but it turned out that those particular initials were far more common than I thought so I had to choose a cybername for myself and then,being terminally devoid of imagination,I looked to my favourite band,Tangerine Dream,for inspiration. One of my favourite TD albums is "Time Square" where there's a track called "Pixel Pirates". I thought that sounded snappy and distinctive,but being only one person I changed it from plural to singular.

As for the avatar I chose it from the ones available when I registered. There's a TD connection once again,of course,in that that particular avatar is called "Wavelength" and there's a TD album by the same name. I thought it appropriate for that reason alone but I also thought that it looks quite a lot like a spectrum analyzer you often find on recording studio equalizers (I actually had one in my hifi at one point. Totally pointless in a home stereo system but it looked tremendously stylish and hypercool.I was still young enough to care about things like that then  ) and since TD rely on advanced studioequipment slightly more than, say Bruce Springsteen,I thought that was an additional reason to use it.

Ok,you can wake up now.

I'm Zappa123 on different forums.Zappa123 simply because there is always at least one Zappa on the forum.Even Zappa1 and Zappa2....Hell,Zappa is everywhere.But that's normal.....I realize now-I think here I could be just Zappa.

The picture goes with Zappamaniacs.By the way,my real name is Robert.

Garion81 wrote:   My Handle is from David Edding's THe Belgariad.  I started using it 10 years ago or so when I first logged on to a BBS and Aragorn was taken. Been using it in different forms ever since.  My avitar is something from the stock list.

and all this time I thought it was taken from Kansas....you know Garion You Wayward Son....yuk,yuk,yuk