Jul 5, 2018, 7:44 PM

@thenomain said in Why did you pick your username?:

Because it’s impossible to get me to shut up.

To clarify: I also often quote myself to clarify. And edit my posts. And expand. And and and...

Sometime in my teens, a coder looked at me and said, "You're like a Non-Maskable Interrupt." So I went by "The NMI" for a while.

This was stupid, but not as stupid as "Lance Peterson" which is the name I chose before that.

Because why not.

Shut up.

So I played around with "The Non-Maskable Interrupt" but that was way too long, and too on-the-nose. Why have a cyber-handle in the cyber-days of cyber when it's not clever? (Not clever people are not clever.)

So it's "THE NOn-MAskable INterrupt."

Still on-the nose, a little self-demeaning, but not as obvious until people ask me about it. And seriously, if you can find another Thenomain out there let me know so we can prove multiverse theory.

This is why it's shortened to "Theno", not "Then". Tho someone called me "The Non-Name" recently and I liked that quite a bit.