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What's with the alphanumeric Handle?

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December 02, 2006 – Comments (2)

I'd like to defend it by claiming not to be a geek, but that tact is probably hopeless.

The truth is that it represents one of a few ways I can label myself. I used to fly the SH-2f Seasprite, an out of service Helicopter that used to serve as an anti-ship, anti-sub extension of Navy Cruisers, Destroyers, and Frigates. I also graduated from Annapolis and entered flight school in 1988. At the Academy I used to regulary yell "88 sir!" (Believe it or not that is sort of regular behavior there.)

Despite these facts, I don't think I would have ever thought this handle up on my own. In my flying years, (can't remember when exactly, but shortly after I was winged) my mother received from the CA DMV the following license plate -- completely at random:

2SHF088

I could not look at that plate without wanting to change it to SH2F088 which would have been a good vanity plate for me at the time. The avator icon even looks a bit like me in my flight helmet.

I'm not sure my story beats Eldrehad the Elvish Illusionist wannabe, but it works for me.

BTW I also spent a time or two rolling strange polyheron dice. I didn't use to think of Investing as a refuge for geeks (like me -- I'm also psyched by all the Marvel Movie momentum because of my comic collecting years), but I am beginning to wonder...

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#1) On December 23, 2006 at 3:22 AM, JrnymanInvestor (93.20) wrote:

Thanks for the explanation. It may help me remember your handle better. Cool story and a bit of biographical insight also.

-Julie, who long ago used to play a chaotic good monk

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#2) On December 24, 2006 at 4:39 AM, SH2F088 (84.53) wrote:

My favorite character was Slipner the, Half-Elf Mage/Fighter/Thief. I did not create this character. The Dungeon Master (now a Thoracic Surgeon of Harvard Med who graduated 6th at Dartmouth -- I am not making any of this up!) had female characters embedded in the belly of a purple worm. Slipner was one of them, she married my other less memorable male character.

Eventually I played in a wacky Monte-Hall type D&D tournament (with people I did not know) sponsered by the shop that took over my mother's kooky shop within her real-estate agency building -- I believe she went from agent to shop partner back to agent, but it's been a while now. During the tournament Slipner drank a potion that transformed her into a were wraith and she also picked up a sword of disintigration.

So to recap, this character was of two species, mixing three careers, and could occasionally (depending on a wacky polyhedral die roll) transform herself into an undead creature who could only be harmed by magical or sliver weapons. I think I related to this all over the map identity.

I hate to break it to you, but any of you who could follow this whole comment have a inner geek that you secretly want to nourish.

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