This is pretty interesting.  It's cool to see how everyone's name derives.

Mine is pretty simple.  My first name is Zachary, so the first letter is Z.  I'm pretty involved in an active band (in school) and I play the trumpet.  =  ztrumpet

Well, my name has a dark and mysterious past......well, ok, not really

When I was 6, I signed up for a yahoo account. I saw this textbox that said username and i thought "hmm, my name doesn't fit! It's probably broken..." so I shortened it to the allowable amount.

The hilarious thing is that the only times I ever have problems with it is when I have already signed up for the site. If I need a new account, I make it willrandship1.

@tsukasaZX I always thought your name referred to the zx spectrum 

Edit: broken Smiley. Why doesn't do anything? WHY?

I had a different name originally, because it was the username I used for everything -- Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, ticalc, Bigstring, WikiAnswers, etc. (I even used the same password not very safe, I guess ). Earlier this year I decided to separate my online identities entirely (so I would appreciate it if those of you who know my original name wouldn't mention it here), and I started asking the admins of all the TI-related sites to change my display name (thanks DJ btw).

Deep Thought is the name of the supercomputer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as many of you know. I thought it'd be an easily remembered name, and sounds perfect as a nickname for these sites. The only problem now is that when I search for my nickname in Google, I don't appear at the top anymore (the words are very common, apparently )

On a related topic, I originally called my calculator (a TI-83 Plus) Graphitti (it actually came from the words Graph It, TI ). This was the most recent in a series of pessimistic names for various possessions (I called my trebuchet I made in middle school Backfire (it actually sounds nice), my thumb drive Black Hole (lots of stuff fall in, nothing comes out), my SD card Bottomless Pit (same thing), and so on). I changed its name to Graphite (or Graph Ite for sites that require separate first and last names), which sounds better.

Aaaah I see, I guess that means I should probably edit the contest Winners page (and the news), since they still got your old nickname.

And yeah I remmeber nitacku did that with his password. Not very safe indeed. He was even staff when he did, so anybody could have sneaked in and deleted shit

Btw does Graphitti refers to the competition TI did back in 2005? People had to make a TI-84+SE faceplate and could win $1000 if they won, or something like that. If I remember, the contest was flawed, too.

Thanks, DJ.

I don't know about the competition, but I know TI sells faceplates under a site called "GraphiTi". (Don't know why the "T" is capitalized but the "i" isn't )

lawls, after reading deep thoughts i tried a google search and THIS: http://www.smibs.com/ came up
now i know who to go to when i want to start a business
otherwise the vast majority are mine(which is a bit scary...)

When I search for "deep thought ti", the first result is for "Whatever You Like" by T.I. Apparently the Amazon description page includes the words "deep thought", which is almost totally irrelevant.

Well, my name....is not my name!
Yes, the M stands for Michael (Ride), but I am not Michael Ride.  He does not exist, except in my head and online.
I just like the name.

NECROPOST
wait, wrong thread.

My initials are DRL.  That's where "Darl" came from.
My birthday is 1/18, but 181 kind of sounds better (to me)
So, Darl181.

There is actually quite a bit to the reason for Xeda112358, but nobody knows all of them except for myself. I guess if all of my friends got together and shared all that I have told them, they would know the whole story, but here is a chunk of it. The easy part is the 112358 part it is the first part of the Fibonacci sequence. I have always played around with numbers and patterns and it just so happens that when I was six, I came up with a number series where you add the last two numbers you have to get the next (that was the terminology I used at that age). When I was ten, I was given a math quiz to see what my level was in math and the very last question was to complete the pattern: 1,1,2,3,5,8,__,__. I got pretty excited and asked the teachers where it came from and that is where I learned that it had a name. Now, as for the Xeda part... I don't exactly conform to some gender rules (to put it one way) and I wanted a name that both sounded nice and was less masculine. Xeda (the x is pronounced as a "z" as in xylophone) sounded right and so I went with that. In other places that need a last name, I use Xeda Elnara mostly because I love the letter "r" and because it rolls off the tongue. I was told it sounded elven and I like that (I have been told that I look slightly elvish).

So, um, yeah. If you have any questions/comments/concerns... drop off some peanuts and I will be happy to respond (just kidding about the peanuts )

Rawr!