Explain Your Dragon Name!
Donald Macangus
Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
Ok, I'll go first.
Way back in the day... probably 1983 or so... I was living in the North of
England, serving in the US armed forces.
I had purchased an Apple ][ plus the year before, prior to moving to the UK.
So there I was in my rented bungalo, with no watchable TV (US version only),
running my US specs Apple ][ plus off a transformer that was roughly the
size of a toaster oven.
One of the people I worked with on the base mentioned that he too had an
Apple, and that the greatest game he had ever played was Ultima. That would
be Ultima 1 for the Apple ][. So I begged him to loan it to me. And he
did. And he gave me his disks, which included his character, which he had
not developed very far at all. I promptly got him killed, so I restarted
with a character of the same name, which happened to be Bocefus (after Hank
Williams Jr.).
One night, after playing for a while, I went back to the room where the
computer was parked, and found my son, who was only 18 months or so, and he
had both the disks in his hands. Apparently he was very impressed with the
game, and he was just so curious about it that he wanted to see what made it
work. Unfortunately, he had been eating his supper, and he had mashed
potatoes and gravy on his hands, and he had placed his thumbs precicely over
the access slots on both disks. Both disks were fried.
I hollared at him at the time, and he was very sad that I had yelled at him,
probably for the first time. I too felt bad about it, and the disks were
easily replaced. After that I decided to commemorate the event by using his
name for my character. His name was Donald, and I decided to reverse it,
making it Dlanod. And I have been Dlanod ever since. That's why I have
chosen Dlanod Dragon.
Incidentally, he is now 19 years old, and is a Dragon himself. He took the
name SugnaCam Dragon, which is a play on our family name, MacAngus.
I will tell you the story behind Grandpa Dragon at another time.
Dlanod Dragon
(aka Grandpa Dragon)
christi...@sympatico.ca
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> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
>
> Ok, I'll go first.
> Dlanod Dragon
>
> (aka Grandpa Dragon)
I'll go second then.
This was back in the day when I had a 14.4. I had just bought the UVII
collection, and wanted to start playing it. After much hub-bub...
actually, I think I joined here when I was replaying UVI... Anyway, the
thing to remember is I had a 14.4. Well, for whatever reason I decided
to join this NG, and was reading the application form, and it said that
I should look at the grand-roster to pick a unique name.
The grand-roster took such a long time to load that I got tired of
waiting for it and I decided to pick an "a" dragon name. "Hey look", I
thought, "'Annoying' is available", and I pounced on it!
--
Annoying Dragon
Oh, and it gave me an excuse if I ever started being annoying :)
I think 'moa' is French for 'annoying' (ducks) :)
David & Barbara Schmidt
was also fresh into the relationship with my (now ex) 1st wife. The D&D
campaign had a fascination with fire breathing dragons, acid breathing
dragons, ice breathing dragons, etc. and the (now) ex, like most women,
had a fascination with chocolate.
The combo was born.
Fortunately, the current Mrs. Chocolate Breathing, being also human
female, is also chocoholic and thus is not offended by the reference
(unless she checks my sent folder and sees this).
Chocolate Breathing Dragon
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> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
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education, and interested in anatomy and neurology, I chose a name from that
particular field of interest.
Although having a medical education I actually never liked practicing medicine.
So now I'm working in my other major field of interest, at the IT department at
our hospital. My main responsibility here is computerized x-ray systems (PACS).
Perhaps I should change my dragon name: Impax dragon, after our PACS system
delivered by Agfa.
Thalamus Dragon
Dalboz Dragon
<bigd...@earthlink.net> earned a wedgie by saying:
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>Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
Dalboz is the wise-cracking, disembodied Dungeon Master from "Zork:
Grand Inquisitor." Formerly one of the most powerful wizards of the
Great Underground Empire, he was sprayed with Frobozz Magic Wizard
Repellent and torn from his own body, later settling into a lantern.
With a natural aptitude for magic and the ability to learn new magics
very quickly, he achieved straight A's during his stay at GUE Tech.
I kind of associated myself with this character. I was a
teacher's/professor's worst nightmare: a wiseass who got straight
A's. And alot of people associate what I do with a type of magic.
Hence, the name Dalboz.
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Claus Dragon
that...
my dragon name?
hmm...that is quite a boring story.
when i joined the UDIC in...... august 2000, i think, i was fresh out
of inspiration for a name, so i chose my real life name.
besides, i had a srtong dislike for "nicknames" at that time, so
everyone called me claus and still does, i think.
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"I'm a life long Anglophile. England is still
the only place I know where any young man
can grow up to be the Queen."
Hawkeye Pierce
Great Siberian Dragon
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> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
Mine simply refers to Siberia where I lived before we moved to Australia. I
put "Great" in front to give it a more grandiose ring, :) Incidentally, when
I first filled out the UDIC form, I named myself Siberian Snow Dragon, then
changed my mind and filled another form with Great Siberian Dragon, then got
an e-mail telling me to bloody make up my mind.
- GSD
Goldenflame Dragon
Back in 8th grade I made a D&D character to go along with a friend's
character. His was named Silverglade (which I later discovered he got
from an old module :) and so I decided "Goldenflame" sounded like a nice
companion name.
I then played and won all the numbered Ultimas with a character by this
name (in as much as you can tell in U9 :).
I'm now replaying them all (including non-numbered ones) with The
Magister, which is the name of my current favorite D&D character and
will be weird in SI, when I meet the man I stole the name from. He's a
mage, where Goldenflame was a paladin (and is, in the .dragon fanfics).
Goldenflame Dragon
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Paladin of Tumbolia, land of dead hiccups and extinguished light bulbs.
Walking religious experience. Madman of the Enigmata.
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Shadow of Light
It would have been 1997 or 1998 when I came up with 'Shadow of Light' as an
alias on a BBS (I needed something other than my usual 'Avatar' ;) ). I
think I got the idea when I saw a book in passing that was called 'Shadow
of the Sun'. Anyway, I liked the ring of 'Shadow of Light' and used that
when I joined UDIC.
And I can argue about the paradox/philosophy of it for hours. :)
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Drenched in Darkness, Bathed in Brilliance, Honed in Harmony
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Whreky
>Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
>
I've been in the eyeglass optical business for 30 years this August 20th.
Optical Dragon was taken, and I considered my other alter-ego, Dragon Lensman,
both for my being a Dragon and working with lenses and for the namesake of my
computer, Worsel, the grand old snake.
~~O^O~~
Optician Dragon
-==UDIC==-
"Never have so many suffered so much so so few could be so happy."
Maj. Frank Burns
Lost Dragon
> living in the North of England, serving in the US armed forces.
My sense of direction is not so good.. In almost all areas of
endeavour. ;p
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Falcon
>Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
This is a great thread :)
My name comes from a video game series I started designing in high
school called "Strike Force". It is about an international group
formed to combat terrorism, the Strike Force. My alter ego is
codenamed Falcon. I was going to go for Falcon Dragon but it didn't
quite sound right... AND it was already taken. So I incorporated my
favorite elemental power into it, lightning. Thus was born:
Falcon, The Thunder Dragon
Probably one of the longest Dragon names out there, but I like it :)
Falcon
J. P. Morris
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> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
Doug the Eagle is a fictional character I litereally dreamt up some
years ago. In the dream I was watching a newsreel about the first
computer sentience, which had been 'grown' in an F-15 fighter.
They had named him 'Doug' because the F-15 was made by McDonnell-Douglas
(it's now Boeing, of course).
--
JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=- j...@it-he.org
Fun things to do with the Ultima games http://www.it-he.org
Developing a U6/U7 clone http://ire.it-he.org
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Thomas Alley
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Derivative name of a planet in a series of Sci-Fi books (Robotech II:
The Sentinels) that is inhabited by nothing but scantily clad, Amazon
Women. I liked the idea so I ran with it.
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Thomas Alley
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Samurai
>My sense of direction is not so good.. In almost all areas of
>endeavour. ;p
(:
A good many of us have answered this question before, so Google will
reveal more, but basically, jujutsu is one of my hobbies. I decided to
base my Dragon name on the fact, but the word itself didn't sound too
good. I opted for Samurai because jujutsu is the unarmed combat form
the samurai used, once it was formalised from more basic wrestling.
Little did I know it'd be shorted to Sammy/ie witin a couple of years...
*grin*
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Claus Dragon
that...
>
>
>Back in 8th grade I made a D&D character to go along with a friend's
>character. His was named Silverglade (which I later discovered he got
>from an old module :) and so I decided "Goldenflame" sounded like a nice
>companion name.
>I then played and won all the numbered Ultimas with a character by this
>name (in as much as you can tell in U9 :).
*giggle*
early, years ago, my brother and me used to play ultimas with one char
together, which was called "clarco", the combination of "claus" and
"marco".... it was quite fun.
but alas, those days are gone....more than 10 years, i think.
Claus Dragon
wrote that...
*giggle*
why not great siberian snow dragon?
Claus Dragon
that...
>Quoth "Lost Dragon" <lost-...@cox.net>:
>>My sense of direction is not so good.. In almost all areas of
>>endeavour. ;p
>
>(:
>
>A good many of us have answered this question before, so Google will
>reveal more, but basically, jujutsu is one of my hobbies. I decided to
>base my Dragon name on the fact, but the word itself didn't sound too
>good. I opted for Samurai because jujutsu is the unarmed combat form
>the samurai used, once it was formalised from more basic wrestling.
>
>Little did I know it'd be shorted to Sammy/ie witin a couple of years...
>*grin*
why, sammy, did you not expect that to happen? *EG*
Samurai
>Samurai <Sam...@his.reply-to.address> wrote...
[munch]
>>Little did I know it'd be shorted to Sammy/ie witin a couple of
>>years... *grin*
>
>why, sammy, did you not expect that to happen? *EG*
Not initially, no. :)
Silver Dragon
was trying to find something with several meanings as well as being
easy. I like coincidences.
I thought of a simple color as many fantasy dragons are. Since the
member list wasn't long when I joined, this was obvious. I've always
liked silver jewelry.
Sciences comprise most of my hobbies. In the initial adoption of a
periodic table (chemistry), silver's symbol was a crescent moon
(astronomy), a symbol reminiscent of the phases in the first Ultima I
played, Ultima IV.
My dragon initials are the reverse of my rl name.
One of the intriguing mysteries from Ultima was the silver serpent,
after the amulet Garriott / British wears.
I'm not the Silver Dragon of the Prodigy Dragons, btw. But you knew
that already, didn't you? ;)
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Sometimes the shortest distance between two points
is a little piece of black stone.
Claus Dragon
that...
>>Samurai <Sam...@his.reply-to.address> wrote...
>[munch]
>>>Little did I know it'd be shorted to Sammy/ie witin a couple of
>>>years... *grin*
>>
>>why, sammy, did you not expect that to happen? *EG*
>
>Not initially, no. :)
with the internet and usenet especially having a tendency to
shorten all kinds of words, that should not have been a surprise.
Wtcher Dragon
says...
> I can´t believe you, Samurai <Sam...@his.reply-to.address> wrote
> that...
> >Quoth cl...@dragon.com (Claus Dragon):
> >>Samurai <Sam...@his.reply-to.address> wrote...
> >[munch]
> >>>Little did I know it'd be shorted to Sammy/ie witin a couple of
> >>>years... *grin*
> >>
> >>why, sammy, did you not expect that to happen? *EG*
> >
> >Not initially, no. :)
>
> with the internet and usenet especially having a tendency to
> shorten all kinds of words, that should not have been a surprise.
Sorten my name! ;>
Wtcher Dragon
You see, what happened was my original nickname was "Witness". I wanted
another name though, to appear under certain circumstances and I knew
"Watcher" wouldn't fit. A friend suggested shortening the name by one
letter and there you have it.
Samurai
>cl...@dragon.com says...
>> Samurai <Sam...@his.reply-to.address> wrote...
[munch]
>> >>why, sammy, did you not expect that to happen? *EG*
>> >Not initially, no. :)
>>
>> with the internet and usenet especially having a tendency to
>> shorten all kinds of words, that should not have been a surprise.
With the Internet still US-dominated, and the American love of acronyms,
I'd probably have expected SaD or SD rather than Sammy, if I'd thought
about it. However, I didn't, so it's rather academic. :)
>Sorten my name! ;>
Wtchy, obviously. ;)
Lost Dragon
> Wtchy, obviously. ;)
Pfft. Amateur!
> >Sorten my name! ;>
W.
Next!
Muhahaha...
christi...@sympatico.ca
>
-snip-
> I wanted another name though, to appear under certain circumstances
> and I knew "Watcher" wouldn't fit.
How so?
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Claus Dragon
>> >Sorten my name! ;>
>> Wtchy, obviously. ;)
>
>Pfft. Amateur!
>
>> >Sorten my name! ;>
>
>W.
LD, you are awesome!
>Next!
>
>Muhahaha...
cd
Claus Dragon
that...
>> with the internet and usenet especially having a tendency to
>> shorten all kinds of words, that should not have been a surprise.
>
>Sorten my name! ;>
sorten? well, you have already shortened the word shorten, wtr :-)
Whreky
>> >Sorten my name! ;>
>
>W.
>
>Next!
ok,
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there ya go.
Frenetic Dragon
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>Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
[Frenetic, his nose nestled to a delicate perfection between two pages
of a rather worn spiral notebook, peeks a whirling eye up and over the
edge of the text. The eraser end of a pencil appears on one side of
the book, slowing to a stop as its owner's distraction tumbles into
outright fascination. Frenetic's right eyebrow, or more accurately
the patch of scale-clad skin located at the precise position where
natural selection would have placed an eyebrow if natural selection
had decided dragons needed eyebrows in order to run merrily about the
wood consuming humans and finding intricate methods of storing gold in
obscenely obscure locales, shifts upward slightly. A small curl
appears on his lip. Spreading quickly along the length of his snout,
the curl shifts into a smile. Teeth dash after the curl, chasing
along the edge of the dragon's smile until the whole affair turns into
a rather toothy grin. Frenetic's tail begins to swish back and forth
behind his body.]
*snort*
[As quickly as he paused, Frenetic vanishes behind the notebook,
pencil scribbling madly across the pages in an unseen fury. Then,
quickly, Frenetic's head emerges from the top of the book, fully
visible as he drops the book down to his lap. The pencil drops to one
side as he smiles a second time and gives a nod.]
Truth in advertising.
*blink*
[The head dips back beneath the book, which quickly moves back into
position just in time to endure a renewed onslaught from the dragon's
pencil.]
"Silence the Swedish Chef, and I shall hear thee ..."
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Wtcher Dragon
christi...@sympatico.ca says...
> Wtcher Dragon wrote:
> >
> -snip-
> > I wanted another name though, to appear under certain circumstances
> > and I knew "Watcher" wouldn't fit.
> -snip-
>
> How so?
Oh, silly character length sillies. :)
Silvan
> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
The first dozen or so things I considered were already in use.
I elected to use one of them anyway, and append something to the end to make
it unique, hence Silvan Pagan Dragon.
I'm extremely comfortable in forests, and am sylvan by nature, but I'm also
a student of Latin, and find the spelling "sylvan" to be grating on the
nerves.
I'm a Pagan-ish sort of person, spiritually.
It fits.
For use in the outside world, I've since shortened it to Silvan. I use that
name so much that it's more of a name to me than Michael.
I have a little plastic license plate for the bike that says SILVAN 1... :)
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Silvan Pagan
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Amurath
> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
Rather short story. Basically I have been a real history nut for a
long time. Even went so far as to get a degree in archaeology!
Anyway, my dragon name was taken from a line of sultans from the
Ottoman Empire. The various Amuraths who ruled ranged from artists
and warriors to complete and total madmen. Amurath V was truly loony
toons and is actually well known for that fact. But of course, I
actually had one of the sane Amuraths in mind! *LOL* That said,
I always found that no matter what kind of character I wanted to play
in a game, there was an Amurath that would fit the bill. Really!
Mind you, when it comes right down to it, I just thought the name had
a good ring to it, and it wasn't already taken, and I didn't have any
other bright ideas ;)
-Amurath Dragon
BubbaDragon
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isn't to big a mystery.
My sister, Jennifer, and her friends called me 'Bubba' for a while, as a
nick name, so I added my last initial 'C' to it to get my Dragon names.
Original, not too imaginative, but original. :)
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B2D
Matthew Duncan
Donald Macangus <bigd...@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
>
Well, I wanted a dragon name that had many associations with things about
me. Basically, Ram is the name a character in the movie Tron (one of my
all time favourites), my astrological sign (proud of it even if I don't
believe in it), and a component of computers (self professed computer geek
since early 80's), and, I guess just like the name Ram Dragon. :p
When I originally joined in 1995, I took Psionic Dragon because I was in
psychology, but immediately realised that name didn't work for me.
Ram Dragon (and proud of it)
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Mythril Dragon
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> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
>
When I joined the Dragons, I was part of an AD&D P&P group for a few years.
I always played an Elven or Half-Elven character and in the world we played
in, mythril was a type of highly magical metal made and used by Elves. My
friends gave me the nickname Mythril, and I started using it online. So when
I had to choose my Dragon name, Mythril Dragon was a logical choice for me
and it wasn't taken yet.
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> I can´t believe you, Wtcher Dragon <bou...@ultima-dragons.org> wrote
> that...
>
> >> with the internet and usenet especially having a tendency to
> >> shorten all kinds of words, that should not have been a surprise.
> >
> >Sorten my name! ;>
>
> sorten? well, you have already shortened the word shorten, wtr :-)
Wct.
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Helgraf Dragon
>
> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
Helgraz is the name of my FreeForm RP persona on AOL (yes, I still use
it. Nyeah!).
Helgraf made an interesting varient - the fact that it translates from
German to mean either Light Duke or Pale Duke was cool, and the
nebulousness of that (Light Duke being probably considered a "good
thing" but Pale Duke having rather more 'shadowy implications') worked
right in with how I perceive Helgraf to be.
Nathaniel Thomas
>Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
>
<snip>
>
>Dlanod Dragon
>
> (aka Grandpa Dragon)
>
Anubis is one of my favorite characters in The Ronin Warriors Japanese
Animation. Unfortunately the name was already taken, so I chose to use
Anubis' nickname in the show of "the Ogre".
Anubis the Ogre Dragon -==(UDIC)==-
Amurath
> Claus Dragon wrote:
>> I can´t believe you, Wtcher Dragon <bou...@ultima-dragons.org> wrote
>> that...
>>
>>>> with the internet and usenet especially having a tendency to
>>>> shorten all kinds of words, that should not have been a surprise.
>>>
>>> Sorten my name! ;>
>>
>> sorten? well, you have already shortened the word shorten, wtr :-)
>
> Wct.
That sounds like a sneeze that you managed to stop before it
got all the way out. ;)
-Amurath Dragon
Singing Dragon
>
> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
Mine's nothing special - I had been using vaious other handles on BBS's
and stuff, and then when I got to the internet and joined up, I found
that ALL of them were cliched boring ones that had been taken ages ago
(my first choice was "Morpheus". Gah - I went to tons of work looking
that up by reading mythology books and the like, only to find that it's
a ridiculously common name in handle-land). So instead, I settled for
something musical, since I joined the day my application for McGill was
due (to come study music theory and play the saxophone - how my plans
have changed!). I was also singing a lot that year in Fredericton.
Oddly enough, after 5 years with this name, I was just considering
changing it to "Baroque Dragon" - Singing's ok, but it's not *really*
what I do. Baroque is more descriptive, both musically and personally. I
tend to be rather baroque, doing this and that and not really being
particularly categorisable. I'm a sax player majoring in harpsichord
with an interest in music theory, with a job working with computers, and
I'm also trying to learn how to program stuff and build harpsichords...
Baroque would have been great. Of course, while I was debating all this,
the name was swiped by the current Baroque dragon (the creator of U7Run)
which made up my mind for me. And so, Singing Dragon have I remained.
--
Singing Dragon
-- Don't forget to *enjoy* the *sauce* --
- UnSpluttable -
- 1 Boa point -
Samurai
[munch]
>(Light Duke being probably considered a "good thing" but Pale Duke
>having rather more 'shadowy implications')
Or David Bowie implications. ;)
christi...@sympatico.ca
>
> My, Donald Macangus, what a big post you have!
> >
> > Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
> (my first choice was "Morpheus". Gah - I went to tons of work looking
> that up by reading mythology books and the like, only to find that it's
> a ridiculously common name in handle-land).
> --
> Singing Dragon
> -- Don't forget to *enjoy* the *sauce* --
> - UnSpluttable -
> - 1 Boa point -
Morpheus, Neo, Trinity? How lame are those names? It's not as bad as
that British guy's names in Hackers (Zero Cool, Crash Override
*shudder*), but at least there aren't a million Zero Cool's.
Trinity's not sooooo bad. But Neo is pretty lame. You'd figure a
messiah or whatever would have a cool name like... *shrugs*
I never really liked The Matrix, thought it was overrated, but if you
watch it as a comedy, it's quite brilliant :) Keanu Reeves is just the
funniest guy in the world :P
--
Annoying Dragon
Pete H
"Donald Macangus" <bigd...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>
I'll give you three guesses. First two don't count.
---
Bearded Dragon
My first choice was "elliot Dragon" but someone signed up for that the day
before i did.
at@pharm.uu.nl Filip van den Bergh
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I had always thought is was a Welsh word.
Filip
Singing Dragon
> Singing Dragon wrote:
>> (my first choice was "Morpheus". Gah - I went to tons of work looking
>> that up by reading mythology books and the like, only to find that it's
>> a ridiculously common name in handle-land).
>
> that British guy's names in Hackers (Zero Cool, Crash Override
> *shudder*), but at least there aren't a million Zero Cool's.
Of course, my dragon-name choosing was several years before anyone had
heard of the Matrix, so it probably wasn't as bad as now...
> I never really liked The Matrix, thought it was overrated, but if you
> watch it as a comedy, it's quite brilliant :) Keanu Reeves is just the
> funniest guy in the world :P
I quite enjoyed it - it's a wonky little action movie mixed in with some
messing with your head. Nothing particularly deep. Just fun.
k.n.
Samurai sat down and scribbled thusly:
> [snip]
> A good many of us have answered this question before, so Google will
> reveal more, but basically, jujutsu is one of my hobbies. I decided to
> base my Dragon name on the fact, but the word itself didn't sound too
> good. I opted for Samurai because jujutsu is the unarmed combat form
> the samurai used, once it was formalised from more basic wrestling.
>
> Little did I know it'd be shorted to Sammy/ie witin a couple of years...
> *grin*
*grins*
_I_ think Sammie sounds somehow...- cute !
: )
...but only if you think of Samurai as being the full name..-(in contrast to
Sam, for example)
*ponder* strange, somehow -
probably because one only gives "cute" nicknames to those persons one likes
anyway !
(your "enemies", in contrast, - if you have some, and be it only from time
to time - tend to get rather the "big animals"- nicknames :
the more you dislike them, the bigger the animal... ; )
kn,
distracting herself again
Donald Macangus
"k.n." <Kathrin....@phil.stud.uni-erlangen.de> wrote in message
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>
> probably because one only gives "cute" nicknames to those persons one
likes
> anyway ! (your "enemies", in contrast, - if you have some, and be it only
from time
> to time - tend to get rather the "big animals"- nicknames : the more you
dislike them, the bigger the
> animal... ; )
Funny you should mention this...
When serving in the armed forces, I took notice of the difference in the
names given to allied aircraft, versus enemy aircraft. For example,
American planes had names like Eagle, Falcon, Phantom, Tomcat, etc. All
names which evoke a certain proud aura. On the other hand, the names given
by the West to some Soviet aircraft included such noble monikers as Fishpot,
and Faggot. These names actually appeared in the Jane's Defense manuals.
Interesting, isn't it.
Claus Dragon
Donald Macangus schrieb:
and stuff like fulcrum, foxbat. not too mention all those "short names" for all
the ground cars.
--
cd
Lumina Dragon
Donald Macangus wrote:
>
> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
A long time ago (September 96) in a city fa.... blah, I'm not a SW fan,
so why bother. It was my second year at IU Bloomington, and I was
running ultima searches on the Net. I came across this thing called
"Weyrmount", and decided to take a look at it. I learned it was
populated by people from an Ultima fan club (the first ones I came into
contact with were Tezcatlipoca, Deranged, and Shodan, in that order),
and, after a week, I decided to sign in on the join form at udic.org.
But what to name myself? Oh, I had a few ideas already. Those spiffy
wisps had me thinking "Xorinian", but it was taken. And heaven forbid
that one of the other ponderings was available, or it would be I, and
not Zac Bond, stuck with the moniker of "Ophidian". I forget what my
third choice was, but it too was taken. SO I sat there looking at the
roster and brainstormed.....
When I finally came up with "Lumina", I was thinking of the magic
elemental of Light, Lumina, from Secret of Mana for the SNES. And this
name was free, so I signed up. A few impatient days later, on the last
day of that month, some greeter whose name I'm fairly sure began with an
H but can no longer remember sent me confirmation, and I was able to get
a permanent character at the Weyrmount, and also learned of the
newsgroup, rec.games.computer.ultima-dragons.
Now, five and more-than-a-half years later, I'm still here. And I'm
still on the Weyrmount.... despite the fact that here is now .dragons
and the Weyrmount is now Weyr II. But UDIC is the same, and always will
be.
-Lumina Dragon
Lumina Dragon
Shadow of Light wrote:
>
> A dragon takes interest in what Donald Macangus said...
>
> It would have been 1997 or 1998 when I came up with 'Shadow of Light' as an
> alias on a BBS (I needed something other than my usual 'Avatar' ;) ). I
> think I got the idea when I saw a book in passing that was called 'Shadow
> of the Sun'. Anyway, I liked the ring of 'Shadow of Light' and used that
> when I joined UDIC.
Heh. Reminds me of a Star Trek (TOS) book I've got lying around
somewhere called Shadows on the Sun.
> And I can argue about the paradox/philosophy of it for hours. :)
Dare I ask?
-Lumina Dragon
P.S. WHat's so paradoxical? Everyone knows there can be no shadow
without light.
Samurai
[snip]
>I'll give you three guesses. First two don't count.
>---
>Bearded Dragon
You're a cunning linguist? >:D
Lumina Dragon
Silvan wrote:
>
> Donald Macangus wrote:
>
> > Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
>
> The first dozen or so things I considered were already in use.
Heh, I can relate, and there were only 4000m-some names on the roster
when *I* joined.
Must be incredibly difficult these days.
-Lumina Dragon
Lumina Dragon
Amurath wrote:
>
> "Donald Macangus" <bigd...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
> <snip>
>
> Rather short story. Basically I have been a real history nut for a
> long time. Even went so far as to get a degree in archaeology!
> Anyway, my dragon name was taken from a line of sultans from the
> Ottoman Empire. The various Amuraths who ruled ranged from artists
> and warriors to complete and total madmen.
Reminds me of the Julio-Claudian line.
But they ranged from Augustus to complete and total madmen.
> Amurath V was truly loony
> toons and is actually well known for that fact. But of course, I
> actually had one of the sane Amuraths in mind! *LOL* That said,
Suuuure you did.
> I always found that no matter what kind of character I wanted to play
> in a game, there was an Amurath that would fit the bill. Really!
> Mind you, when it comes right down to it, I just thought the name had
> a good ring to it, and it wasn't already taken, and I didn't have any
> other bright ideas ;)
Ahh, game names..... the Avatar in the Ultima series has always been and
shall always be Andreas Vanderslyke, after a premade character in an old
D&D starter set called Dragon Quest. I named one of my AD&D chars after
him (although all my other char sheets sport original names) - it's a
cool name. And in some games, and always Ultima, the name Andreas goes
into the name entry.
(Other names I have been known to use in video games are Jarred (after
jarred nethandril, an AD&D character once my brother's, but long
abandoned by him), and Kenn, short for Kenneth (my name).)
> -Amurath V Dragon
Do not pay attention to my alteration of your signature.
-Lumina Dragon
Lumina Dragon
Mythril Dragon wrote:
>
> "Donald Macangus" <bigd...@earthlink.net> schreef in bericht
> news:uhrO8.1722$TP4.1...@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> >
> > Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
> >
>
> When I joined the Dragons, I was part of an AD&D P&P group for a few years.
> I always played an Elven or Half-Elven character and in the world we played
> in, mythril was a type of highly magical metal made and used by Elves. My
> friends gave me the nickname Mythril, and I started using it online. So when
> I had to choose my Dragon name, Mythril Dragon was a logical choice for me
> and it wasn't taken yet.
Mythril silver is cool. And you're quite lucky it hasn't been taken, it
being such an obvious fantasy choice.
-Lumina Dragon
Lumina Dragon
Helgraf Dragon wrote:
>
> Helgraf made an interesting varient - the fact that it translates from
> German to mean either Light Duke or Pale Duke was cool, and the
> nebulousness of that (Light Duke being probably considered a "good
> thing" but Pale Duke having rather more 'shadowy implications') worked
> right in with how I perceive Helgraf to be.
And oddly enough, I recently read a book called "The Fire Duke". Odd how
the timing of your mention of your name's translation comes up.
-Lumina Dragon
Lumina Dragon
Nathaniel Thomas wrote:
>
> Anubis is one of my favorite characters in The Ronin Warriors Japanese
> Animation. Unfortunately the name was already taken, so I chose to use
> Anubis' nickname in the show of "the Ogre".
Everyone knows Cale is cooler.
-Lumina Dragon
Pete H
"Samurai" <Sam...@his.reply-to.address> wrote in message
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> Quoth "Pete H" <petros.dont....@javaspamnet.com>:
> [snip]
> >I'll give you three guesses. First two don't count.
> >---
> >Bearded Dragon
>
> You're a cunning linguist? >:D
Oddly enough...i've been called that before. People come up to me at random
times and ask what the word of the day is...usually i've got one handy.
Kinda scary really...
Wtcher Dragon
<F.S.vandenBergh at@ pharm.uu.nl> says...
You're not the only one. It may actually be a Welsh word. I should go
find out, then tell everyone it's a Welsh word. ;)
Wtcher Dragon
petros.dont....@javaspamnet.com says...
*peers*
Kind of rude though, isn't it.
Shadow of Light
>> It would have been 1997 or 1998 when I came up with 'Shadow of Light'
>> as an alias on a BBS (I needed something other than my usual 'Avatar'
>> ;) ). I think I got the idea when I saw a book in passing that was
>> called 'Shadow of the Sun'. Anyway, I liked the ring of 'Shadow of
>> Light' and used that when I joined UDIC.
>
> Heh. Reminds me of a Star Trek (TOS) book I've got lying around
> somewhere called Shadows on the Sun.
I think the one I saw was about Japan. :)
>> And I can argue about the paradox/philosophy of it for hours. :)
>
> Dare I ask?
Well, argue it in my own head. ;) I think I put myself in a trance once.
> P.S. WHat's so paradoxical? Everyone knows there can be no shadow
> without light.
Not so much shadow caused by light shining on an object, but shadow cast by
light *itself*.
--
Shadow of Light Dragon -==(UDIC)==-
Drenched in Darkness, Bathed in Brilliance, Honed in Harmony
http://www.1freespace.com/avatar
J. P. Morris
'Fishpot' is just crazy. I didn't know 'Faggot'.
But I don't see snything wrong with 'Flanker'. 'Fulcrum' or 'Bear'.
And I still think they should have called the Typhoon something more
sinister like 'crow'.
> --
> cd
--
JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=- j...@it-he.org
Fun things to do with the Ultima games http://www.it-he.org
Developing a U6/U7 clone http://ire.it-he.org
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Pete H
>
> *peers*
>
> Kind of rude though, isn't it.
I dunno, i sort of enjoy it...being the cunning linguist that I am...lol
---
Bearded Dragon
Samurai
>petros.dont....@javaspamnet.com says...
>> "Samurai" <Sam...@his.reply-to.address> wrote...
[munch]
>> > >Bearded Dragon
>> >
>> > You're a cunning linguist? >:D
>>
>> Oddly enough...i've been called that before.
Well then, that just confirms what I said. ;)
>> People come up to me at random times and ask what the
>> word of the day is...usually i've got one handy.
Doughnut!
>> Kinda scary really...
Not really. The ability to improvise can be a very useful skill. :)
>*peers* Kind of rude though, isn't it.
Moderately, yes. But I wouldn't mind if Moneypenny said it to me...
Lumina Dragon
"J. P. Morris" wrote:
>
> >> When serving in the armed forces, I took notice of the difference in the
> >> names given to allied aircraft, versus enemy aircraft. For example,
> >> American planes had names like Eagle, Falcon, Phantom, Tomcat, etc. All
> JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=- j...@it-he.org
So, given the thread topic, where did YOUR name come from? Anything to
do with the excerpt I kindly kept in here? (Possible, given the imagery
on your webpage.)
-Lumina Dragon
Pete H
<christi...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Singing Dragon wrote:
> >
> Morpheus, Neo, Trinity? How lame are those names? It's not as bad as
> that British guy's names in Hackers (Zero Cool, Crash Override
> *shudder*), but at least there aren't a million Zero Cool's.
>
> Trinity's not sooooo bad. But Neo is pretty lame. You'd figure a
> messiah or whatever would have a cool name like... *shrugs*
"Neo" was an anagram of "one". as in, "The One".
Most of the name choices in that movie were significant in some
manner...although some of them take more digging than others, both through
mythology and more current religious texts.
---
Bearded Dragon
Samurai
[munch]
>So, given the thread topic, where did YOUR name come from? Anything to
>do with the excerpt I kindly kept in here? (Possible, given the imagery
>on your webpage.)
DtE already explained it once, in this very thread. Your ISP's NNTP
server /does/ suck, doesn't it? <:)
Samurai
[munch]
>"Neo" was an anagram of "one". as in, "The One".
*blink*
You know, I've seen that movie any number of times, and that's the first
time I've noticed. I feel pretty dim, now. <:)
>Most of the name choices in that movie were significant in some
>manner...although some of them take more digging than others, both
>through mythology and more current religious texts.
Morpheus, king of dreams, was obvious enough. Switch and Cypher didn't
really get enough screen time for us to work out whether theirs were
relevant to anything or not. <:)
J. P. Morris
Play me my song... Here it comes again...
Doug the Eagle is a fictional character I litereally dreamt up some
years ago. In the dream I was watching a newsreel about the first
computer sentience, which had been 'grown' in an F-15 fighter.
They had named him 'Doug' because the F-15 was made by McDonnell-Douglas
(it's now Boeing, of course).
>
> -Lumina Dragon
--
JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=- j...@it-he.org
christi...@sympatico.ca
-snip-
> "Neo" was an anagram of "one". as in, "The One".
I knew that, but c'mon, that's soooo lame.
:Annoying Dragon rides Neo's rocket
Anno/Lucky frag man!
Neo\No way, it's because I'm "the one".
Anno/...
Neo\you know, cause neo is an anagram for one, so I'm liek the neo?
:Neo is booted from the server
> Bearded Dragon
|-----------Annoying Dragon------------
|No wonder some turn towards dolphins.|
|U46!7!L89! uC++++ wC++ oE++ -=UDIC=- |
-----<ask F-15 about the dolphins>----|
Whreky
>Doug the Eagle is a fictional character I litereally dreamt up some
>years ago. In the dream I was watching a newsreel about the first
>computer sentience, which had been 'grown' in an F-15 fighter.
>They had named him 'Doug' because the F-15 was made by McDonnell-Douglas
>(it's now Boeing, of course).
>
Got it Lumina? Doug the (F-15) Eagle, as in Thomas the tank Engine, and Frank
the Fishbed.
~~O^O~~
Optician Dragon
-==UDIC==-
"Never have so many suffered so much so so few could be so happy."
Maj. Frank Burns
Goldenflame Dragon
<shadowofli...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Dare I ask?
>
>Well, argue it in my own head. ;) I think I put myself in a trance once.
>
Now that's funny. And cute.
:D
Goldenflame
--
Seeker of the Chaosopher's Stone -==UDIC==- Goldenflame Dragon
Paladin of Tumbolia, home to Nicolas and Camilla.
Part of Andromeda's adoring public. Honourary lesbian.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Don't you two ever get tired of talking to each other?" - Chris to
Adam and Vynce.
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Allan Olley
> > messiah or whatever would have a cool name like... *shrugs*
>
> "Neo" was an anagram of "one". as in, "The One".
>
> Most of the name choices in that movie were significant in some
> manner...although some of them take more digging than others, both through
> mythology and more current religious texts.
Neo is also a prefix meaning new (as in neolithic age, the new stone
age) coming from the Greek word for new neos, which is often used for
various purposes like naming high tech gadgets (Neo-Geo) and politic
movements (neo-conservative). So taking the interpretation that Neo is
meant to indicate one and the meaning of the word/prefix, his name
suggests "New One" or "The New One".
I think Neo is a pretty cool name, short and sweet it rolls of the
tongue, if nothing else it is Greek and names based on Greek words are
at least 50% cooler than names derived from most other languages.
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Captain in the Cinnaguard, Weirdo
Blue Bow [B><B]
Website: http://badger.ac.brocku.ca/~ao98ad/
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Yours Truly Saint George's Dragon
Allan Olley -==UDIC==-
-----------
"That's Teletran-1!" Rattrap.
Allan Olley
> Baroque would have been great. Of course, while I was debating all this,
> the name was swiped by the current Baroque dragon (the creator of U7Run)
> which made up my mind for me. And so, Singing Dragon have I remained.
Must resist urge, [sweet forming, teeth gritting], can not stop
myself.
Probably for the best, you know what they say "If it is not Baroque
don't fix it." :)
[Runs.]
--
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Captain in the Cinnaguard, Weirdo
Blue Bow [B><B]
Website: http://badger.ac.brocku.ca/~ao98ad/
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Yours Truly Saint George's Dragon
Allan Olley -==UDIC==-
-----------
"An object at rest can not be stopped!" The Evil Midnight Bomber What
Bombs at Midnight.
Allan Olley
> Quoth "Lost Dragon" <lost-...@cox.net>:
> Little did I know it'd be shorted to Sammy/ie witin a couple of years...
> *grin*
What about it being shortened to 'Rai? I know we do not do that here
but they (and you) do that in that other place.
--
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Captain in the Cinnaguard, Weirdo
Blue Bow [B><B]
Website: http://badger.ac.brocku.ca/~ao98ad/
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Yours Truly Saint George's Dragon
Allan Olley -==UDIC==-
-----------
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, / they kill us for their
sport." Shakespeare, "King Lear" Act IV, Scene I.
Allan Olley
> A dragon takes interest in what Lumina Dragon said...
> > without light.
> Not so much shadow caused by light shining on an object, but shadow cast by
> light *itself*.
Ahh, but light can indeed destructively interefere with itself,
casting a kind of shadow.
--
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Captain in the Cinnaguard, Weirdo
Blue Bow [B><B]
Website: http://badger.ac.brocku.ca/~ao98ad/
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Yours Truly Saint George's Dragon
Allan Olley -==UDIC==-
-----------
"Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway? I mean all you get
is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh,
oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" The Tick.
Allan Olley
> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
Well, my human birthday is April 23rd which is Saint George's Day, and
I thought hey Saint George's Dragon makes for a really appropriate
Dragon name.
April the 23rd is a very special day as it is the date given on
William Shakespeare's baptisimal record (and so gives his aproximate
birthdate) and also the date he died, interestingly Cervantes also
died on April 23rd in the same year as Shakespeare but because Spain
and Britain were on different calenders at the time they did not
actually die on the same day.
--
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Captain in the Cinnaguard, Weirdo
Blue Bow [B><B]
Website: http://badger.ac.brocku.ca/~ao98ad/
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Yours Truly Saint George's Dragon
Allan Olley -==UDIC==-
-----------
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."-
-From Julius Caesar - 1599 - Act I. - Scene 2. - Rows: 140-141
Lumina Dragon
Allan Olley wrote:
>
> Shadow of Light Dragon wrote :
> > A dragon takes interest in what Lumina Dragon said...
> > > P.S. WHat's so paradoxical? Everyone knows there can be no shadow
> > > without light.
> > Not so much shadow caused by light shining on an object, but shadow cast by
> > light *itself*.
>
> Ahh, but light can indeed destructively interefere with itself,
> casting a kind of shadow.
Oooh.... you mean that double-slit interference pattern?
-Lumina Dragon
Lumina Dragon
Samurai wrote:
>
> Quoth Lumina Dragon <kewh...@hotmail.com>:
> [munch]
> >So, given the thread topic, where did YOUR name come from? Anything to
> >do with the excerpt I kindly kept in here? (Possible, given the imagery
> >on your webpage.)
>
> DtE already explained it once, in this very thread. Your ISP's NNTP
> server /does/ suck, doesn't it? <:)
Pretty much.
-Lumina Dragon
Lumina Dragon
christi...@sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> |-----------Annoying Dragon------------
> |No wonder some turn towards dolphins.|
> |U46!7!L89! uC++++ wC++ oE++ -=UDIC=- |
> -----<ask F-15 about the dolphins>----|
Whoa. You still have that in your sig? Nifty.
-Lumina Dragon
Whreky
>
>Probably for the best, you know what they say "If it is not Baroque
>don't fix it." :)
>
>[Runs.]
Grins and groans. Don't get me started.
Shadow of Light
>> > > P.S. WHat's so paradoxical? Everyone knows there can be no shadow
>> > > without light.
>> > Not so much shadow caused by light shining on an object, but shadow
>> > cast by light *itself*.
>>
>> Ahh, but light can indeed destructively interefere with itself,
>> casting a kind of shadow.
>
> Oooh.... you mean that double-slit interference pattern?
<SoL's eyes start to glaze over> :)
Sorry, light *can* cast a shadow? Please go on. :)
Shadow of Light
>>Well, argue it in my own head. ;) I think I put myself in a trance once.
>>
>
> Now that's funny. And cute.
>:D
<swats you> :p Regretting you didn't get me talking about it when I was in
America? ;)
at@pharm.uu.nl Filip van den Bergh
as
> > that British guy's names in Hackers (Zero Cool, Crash Override
> > *shudder*), but at least there aren't a million Zero Cool's.
> >
> > Trinity's not sooooo bad. But Neo is pretty lame. You'd figure a
> > messiah or whatever would have a cool name like... *shrugs*
>
> "Neo" was an anagram of "one". as in, "The One".
>
> Most of the name choices in that movie were significant in some
> manner...although some of them take more digging than others, both
through
> mythology and more current religious texts.
Neo's real name was Anderson, meaning "Son of Man", as in Jesus, as in
The One (iirc, of course).
Filip
Witty Dragon
news:Xns9233B9F8C310Ds...@210.49.20.254...
> A dragon takes interest in what Lumina Dragon said...
>
>
> >> > > P.S. WHat's so paradoxical? Everyone knows there can be no shadow
> >> > > without light.
> >> > Not so much shadow caused by light shining on an object, but shadow
> >> > cast by light *itself*.
> >>
> >> Ahh, but light can indeed destructively interefere with itself,
> >> casting a kind of shadow.
> >
> > Oooh.... you mean that double-slit interference pattern?
>
> <SoL's eyes start to glaze over> :)
>
> Sorry, light *can* cast a shadow? Please go on. :)
I stand a good chance of having to talk about this in my physics exam
tomorrow. So, I'll try it out on you guys first.
If you get two slits (very small slits, and very close together, and allow
light to diffract through them, the light from the slits will interfere with
the other. By putting a screen in front of the the slits (about 4 metres or
so), a pattern of light and dark stripes will appear. The light bits are
where the light from one slit has travelled an exact multiple of the
wavelength further, and so the crests of the waves have coincided, and so it
is bright. The dark bits are where the light from one slit has travelled an
exact multiple of the wavelength, and a half (.5, 1.5, 2.5 kind of thing)
further than the light from the other, so that the peak of one wave occurs
at the trough of another, cancelling each other out.
It's a shame I don't know anything about particle accelerators, which I know
almost for certain will come up. Time to go and read my books.
--
Witty Dragon
Ashikaga
> Donald Macangus wrote:
> >
> > Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
>
> so why bother. It was my second year at IU Bloomington, and I was
> running ultima searches on the Net. I came across this thing called
> "Weyrmount", and decided to take a look at it. I learned it was
> populated by people from an Ultima fan club (the first ones I came into
> contact with were Tezcatlipoca, Deranged, and Shodan, in that order),
> and, after a week, I decided to sign in on the join form at udic.org.
>
> But what to name myself? Oh, I had a few ideas already. Those spiffy
> wisps had me thinking "Xorinian", but it was taken. And heaven forbid
> that one of the other ponderings was available, or it would be I, and
> not Zac Bond, stuck with the moniker of "Ophidian". I forget what my
> third choice was, but it too was taken. SO I sat there looking at the
> roster and brainstormed.....
>
> When I finally came up with "Lumina", I was thinking of the magic
> elemental of Light, Lumina, from Secret of Mana for the SNES. And this
> name was free, so I signed up. A few impatient days later, on the last
> day of that month, some greeter whose name I'm fairly sure began with an
> H but can no longer remember sent me confirmation, and I was able to get
> a permanent character at the Weyrmount, and also learned of the
> newsgroup, rec.games.computer.ultima-dragons.
>
> Now, five and more-than-a-half years later, I'm still here. And I'm
> still on the Weyrmount.... despite the fact that here is now .dragons
> and the Weyrmount is now Weyr II. But UDIC is the same, and always will
> be.
Ooh, nice story. I thought you named yourself after the goddess of light.
All of you knows my name sake already.
> -Lumina Dragon
Ashikaga
Barry Ramirez
> Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
Needed a name in order to join. :) Thought that a dragon with
monomolecular-thick wing edges sounded kewl (like, could cut through things
with them). So I picked that.
Anticlimactic, no?
Then I realized how overplayed monomolecular edged stuff was, and even
for a brief amount of time actually went as Global Dragon... but I was
already known as Mono by then.
Of course, back then there were less of us, so it was easier to get known
as someone in particular...
Monomolecular Dragon
-==(UDIC)==-
...
Grand Lord of So Many Things That He's Forgotten Them Due To Extreme
Oldbiness, of the UDIC Greybeards. Certified 'Just That Good.' (tm)
First Apostle to Lady Skyblade, Ancient High Priestess of Cinnabons
...
(Start UDIC Code)
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"I can't believe Laurie bit me. I hope she didn't give
me, like, slut rabies."
- Donna, "That 70's Show"
Tanaria Dragon
>
>Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
In the year 1000 900 90 and 4 of our Goddess, I was a young person. A budding
Goth and WIccan, and a long time role-player (8 years in fact). My brother, my
sister, a friend, and I start a game of Vampire:The Masquerade(which I still
play, though the Live Action version). A name for a character, he is the
friendly vampire, a reporter by trade(this because of the uber-cool reporters of
Cyberpunk 2020 and Max Headroom, always saving the day for truth). A name from
the ether flies... Tanaria... And it works, and it is good. As I get older, I
start adding traits to the name Tanaria, something that I would dearly love to
be... Something more important... I use it on the 'net, I embody it to gain
its traits... And then it beomes my magickal name as well. It is basicly an
idea that I which to become more of... Tanaria embodies the 8 virtues... And
everything I want to become... So I use it alot. And oddly enough it has
worked*laughs* But there is my rambleings..
Tanaria Dragon
ICQ# 12357489
Dragon Code
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uA++ nC nH+ nI nPT nS++++ nT+ wM- wC++++ wS+ z++ A22
at@pharm.uu.nl Filip van den Bergh
> The One (iirc, of course).
I know, replying oneself is stupid, but I found this text on
http://www.movie-mistakes.com/film.php?filmid=808:
"t's been said that Neo being an anagram for "one". I think it's more
important to realise that Neo means "new". His real name is Thomas
Anderson. He is called Thomas at the beginning of the movie, when he
doubts the truth -- that the world as he knows it is not real. Thomas
is the "doubting" disciple in the Bible. Moreover, Anderson means "son
of man". Hence, Neo Anderson is the New Son of Man. The biblical
references go on and on... Trinity, Nebucadnezzar (the name of the
ship -- in fact, the name plate on the ship makes reference to a verse
in Mark chapter 3), Zion... So not only is Neo "the One", he has gone
from being the doubter to the new son of man"
Lumina Dragon
Ashikaga wrote:
>
> "Lumina Dragon" wrote...
> >
> > When I finally came up with "Lumina", I was thinking of the magic
> > elemental of Light, Lumina, from Secret of Mana for the SNES. And this
> > name was free, so I signed up. A few impatient days later, on the last
>
> Ooh, nice story. I thought you named yourself after the goddess of light.
> All of you knows my name sake already.
I actually have been mistaken for female on the basis of name - that is
a feminine Latin word, after all.
I have also been accused of naming myself after the Chevy car.
Neither are true.
-Lumina Dragon
Lumina Dragon
Barry Ramirez wrote:
>
> Donald Macangus <bigd...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Tell us all how you came to choose your Dragon name.
>
> Then I realized how overplayed monomolecular edged stuff was, and even
> for a brief amount of time actually went as Global Dragon... but I was
> already known as Mono by then.
>
> Of course, back then there were less of us, so it was easier to get known
> as someone in particular...
>
You will always be Monomolecular Dragon.
It's like some sort of universal constant.
-Lumina Dragon
Shadow of Light
> If you get two slits (very small slits, and very close together, and
> allow light to diffract through them, the light from the slits will
> interfere with the other. By putting a screen in front of the the
> slits (about 4 metres or so), a pattern of light and dark stripes will
> appear. The light bits are where the light from one slit has
> travelled an exact multiple of the wavelength further, and so the
> crests of the waves have coincided, and so it is bright. The dark
> bits are where the light from one slit has travelled an exact multiple
> of the wavelength, and a half (.5, 1.5, 2.5 kind of thing) further
> than the light from the other, so that the peak of one wave occurs at
> the trough of another, cancelling each other out.
Ah, Optics. Takes me back to my physics course (which I dropped in favour
of Prof. Writing ;)). I remember watching someone do this - displaying how
lights works as a wave with crests and troughs. Never actually thought of
it as a shadow, though. Just dimmer light. :)
Helgraf Dragon
>
> Quoth Helgraf Dragon <hel...@ultima-dragons.org>:
> [munch]
> >(Light Duke being probably considered a "good thing" but Pale Duke
> >having rather more 'shadowy implications')
>
> Or David Bowie implications. ;)
:ch-thunk:
--
Helgraf Dragon, NSA Dragon, Echelon Liason, Fossil
Chronicler of the Circle of Dragons, King of Sloth
__ The Exodus of the *Other Side*; Psychological torch
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|----| nT+ y++ a27;a1728 Mao Count : 5, Plonk Count : 5
|_||_| When your home is a torus, expect curves.
Helgraf Dragon
>
> Quoth "Pete H" <petros.dont....@javaspamnet.com>:
> [munch]
> >"Neo" was an anagram of "one". as in, "The One".
>
>
> You know, I've seen that movie any number of times, and that's the first
> time I've noticed. I feel pretty dim, now. <:)
>
> >Most of the name choices in that movie were significant in some
> >manner...although some of them take more digging than others, both
> >through mythology and more current religious texts.
>
> really get enough screen time for us to work out whether theirs were
> relevant to anything or not. <:)
Is switch the one who betrays the others?
(is horrid with names)...
Ashikaga
> Ashikaga wrote:
> > "Lumina Dragon" wrote...
> > >
> > > When I finally came up with "Lumina", I was thinking of the magic
> > > elemental of Light, Lumina, from Secret of Mana for the SNES. And this
> > > name was free, so I signed up. A few impatient days later, on the last
> >
> > Ooh, nice story. I thought you named yourself after the goddess of
light.
> > All of you knows my name sake already.
>
> I actually have been mistaken for female on the basis of name - that is
> a feminine Latin word, after all.
That would be fun in a general chat room....
> I have also been accused of naming myself after the Chevy car.
That would be fun in a car related chat room.... REALLY FUN.
> Neither are true.
>
> -Lumina Dragon
Ashikaga
Samurai
>Samurai wrote:
[munch]
>> >(Light Duke being probably considered a "good thing" but Pale Duke
>> >having rather more 'shadowy implications')
>>
>> Or David Bowie implications. ;)
>
>:ch-thunk:
Ooh, now /I/ have a crossbow bolt in an interesting location, too!
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Samurai
>> didn't really get enough screen time for us to work out whether
>> theirs were relevant to anything or not. <:)
>
>Is switch the one who betrays the others?
>(is horrid with names)...
No, Switch was the blonde woman dressed in white. And I didn't mean
Cypher, who /was/ the traitor, I meant Apoc. Must have been a glitch...
;)
Claus Dragon
Samurai schrieb:
> Quoth Helgraf Dragon <hel...@ultima-dragons.org>:
> >Samurai wrote:
> [munch]
> >> >(Light Duke being probably considered a "good thing" but Pale Duke
> >> >having rather more 'shadowy implications')
> >>
> >> Or David Bowie implications. ;)
> >
> >:ch-thunk:
>
> Ooh, now /I/ have a crossbow bolt in an interesting location, too!
*stands behind you, fiddling with his crossbow*
--
cd
christi...@sympatico.ca
Heh, I figured I better get the .sig back since I've started posting
regularly again, and I'm sorta fond of that quote -especially since you
can't really track it down because F-15 x-no-archieved everything.
Annoying
Dracos Dragon
@news.demon.co.uk:
> Morpheus, king of dreams, was obvious enough. Switch and Cypher didn't
> really get enough screen time for us to work out whether theirs were
> relevant to anything or not. <:)
Well... The Matrix is basically a Gnostic retelling of the Gospel stories
of the Christian Scriptures. Neo (New) is the One who will save the world
from the Evil that is the Veil over Our Eyes. We have a traitor who is one
of the disciples (Cypher; the name itself suggests that he isn't all that
he seems), a reverse Peter (Morpheus), plus all the other sundry Apostles
that no really ever seems to remember... :)
Seriously, the Matrix is a rather Gnostic film; it probably owes more
to Philip K. Dick than anything else, but once you start to think about it,
the parallels to the New Testament are strong (death and resurrection, the
name of the human paradise (Zion), etc.). Which makes me wonder what films
2 and 3 are going to be about. There really hasn't, in the Western world,
been any good sequels to the New Testament...
--
Dracos Dragon
PS. Anyone who has spoilers for the next few films I really don't want to
hear from. I ignored the Matrix until such time that friends persuaded me
to see it and then I was very pleasantly surprised... I want that again
this time round.