@weaselx86 @ScottSoCal @sentient_water @hosford42 @yourautisticlife @wakame @zakalwe @markusl @cwebber @Tooden @actuallyautistic @SQLAllFather @dpnash @neurodiversity yes, that. I still meet people on the street 20+ years later, knowing their name and habits of when I have last seen or talked to them, but for the hell of it I cannot remember their names xD

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People should have names that describes them, not just random identifiers.

I often invent names for people.
Sometimes, it annoys them.
Especially when that names catches on.

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@danak6jq

A "subordinate" started calling me "weasel" back in the 1980's. I don't think I ever knew why. It didn't catch on with anyone else.

I'm not 100% certain he knows my real name ;- )

Later he tried to kill me by introducing me to motorcycle road racing ;- )

Joining Twitter I was trying to think up a handle and that came to mind.

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Andreas2 (the second Andreas I met at university) was okay with his name, so it became common even among people who didn't know Andreas(1).
Andreas3 was often irritated when I called him by his uid instead of his name. ​

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IIRC, that "subordinate" was initially inspired by a ceramic coffee mug (that was actually a rat), but weasel - in a very positive way - seemed to fit.

We did have some wild times at Willow Springs, and Riverside, too, right?

(I totally remember your name, Dan)

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Aha! I still have that rat mug somewhere.

Willow Springs 1987: crashing on my very first day on the track in the "new racers" school and waking up as a conveyor belt was transporting me inside the dome of a CAT scanner; which, having never been in one before, looked remarkably like the inside of an alien spacecraft.

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I crashed again once the following year, dismounting high-side in Turn 9 at about 90 MPH after scraping my footpeg. Didn't hit my head that time, just scooted along on my ass off the side of the track.

The medics were incredulous afterward when they measured my blood pressure (twice) at 120/80.

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When you're sliding along on your ass at 90 MPH you can think incredibly fast; and what I was thinking was: there's nothing better I could possibly be doing right now than sliding on my ass *without tumbling*.

After coming to rest I just stood up and walked in toward the pit. I knew the track crew would retrieve my bike from the middle of the track.

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About 40% off-topic, but:

Reminds my of an outpatient surgery I had, with only local anesthesia.
The surgeon asked me afterwards if I was aware that I just had surgery (because my blood pressure had stayed even).

I wonder if that is an NT/ND thing again?

@wakame @weaselx86 @danak6jq @ginsterbusch @ScottSoCal @sentient_water @yourautisticlife @zakalwe @markusl @cwebber @Tooden @SQLAllFather @dpnash Like my oral surgery the other day, when the doctor informed me that he had to do "a little bone work". My panic levels went through the roof, and it was all I could do to remain still in my chair. Afterward he commented on how well I did, that my blood pressure and heart rate never went up, to which I responded by questioning him incredulously and showing him my shaking hands.

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Oh yeah, lots of fun and good memories.

The full stories of my motorcycle escapades are on pages 22 to 26 of this draft of my memoir here:

https://github.com/DavidButterfield/Random/blob/master/Memoirs/DAB_Memoirs.pdf

(To be able to follow the links embedded in the PDF you have to download it; the github reader doesn't let you do that)

@danak6jq
Found that rat mug.

@weaselx86 oh heavens that's damn cool

@weaselx86 Didn't we take a photo of you and the mug in profile? I wonder if I have that neg... will dig into the boxes

@wakame

Then I'd be called Handsome-but-slightly-pudgy-guy-with-a-beard-and-short-hair-who-often-wears-a-hat-in-public-and-sometimes-stims. :madjoy:

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Okay, that was a bad example.
Most of the time it is a characteristic about the person that tickles my brain ​

It might be "Trains", after you infodumped on me about the difference between different track widths and why Dresden and Leipzig have different Tram widths.

Or "Birdfriend" after watching you watch birds intensly for half an hour.

"Alexitect" (portmanteau of "Alexander" and "(software) architect" might be a bit ambivalent... ​