It’s just a shortened version of my name. Mine comes from elementary school. One of my classes had 3 Max in them as the name was really popular for my generation. So we just started using Max-X where X is the initial of the last name.
I was joking and laughing it up with my friends at an outdoor bar in Texas where I stopped at the bar on my way in from the airport (grew up there but left after university cuz Texas is too right wing dystopia for me).
Lady gets mad and tells me to quiet down
I reply with “mam, I came here to do 2 things… hoot and holler, and I dun run outa hoots”
Been using for what feels like a lifetime, although I went through a few usernames during the late 90s early 00s and somewhere along the way BlueEther or a derivative just stuck, it was after a comment something like “jus putting this out into the blue ether” in a forum post
I signed up during the Rexodus, which happened to be a lovely summer day so I was hanging out outside at the time of sign-up. I glanced around my yard looking for inspiration, saw my fireweed patch, and figured that was as good a name as any.
Fireweed is a hardy plant native to much of North America, with beautiful pink flowers that native bees love, and it requires little maintenance once established. It is also edible and has medicinal properties! Please consider planting it (or seed-bombing it in an empty lot) if you live in its native range! More info here
Brian Blessed once sent me a Christmas card with “GORDON’S ALIVE” in big letters across it. My username is from Flash Gordon, not Star Wars or Warhammer.40k.
My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:
<span style="color:#323232;">>>> import random
</span><span style="color:#323232;">>>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)])
</span><span style="color:#323232;">'e0qdk'
</span>
I have that literally in my kbin profile, but it’s not on my reddthat one. (I think I tried to copy it there originally when I set up the account but ran into some issue with Lemmy’s UI – been long enough that I forget what exactly.)
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