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explain your Username!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My Real first name is 'Jairaj' (pronounced /j-rog/), but a bunch of cats call me Jai ("J", i.e. 'Jay') for short... So, "j-raj" made some sense... even if I don't usually.
<a href=http://www.jairaj.net/home.htm target="_blank"><img border=0 src="http://www.jairaj.net/Name.gif" width="161" height="50"" hspace="2" alt="Atlanta Area Bassist, Jairaj"></a>
<a href=http://www.jairaj.net/home.htm target="_blank"><img border=0 src="http://www.jairaj.net/Name.gif" width="161" height="50"" hspace="2" alt="Atlanta Area Bassist, Jairaj"></a>
My handle on Usenet is Jammadave so I kept it for here.
-Started because I collect arcade machines, actually: (techie stuff) JAMMA is a wiring standard introduced in about 1985 by the Japanese Amusement Machines Manufacturers Association. The standard allows you to change games by just swapping out the main circuit board and not having to change anything else. It has since evolved with the advent of more buttons and such on arcade games, like the 5 on Mortal Kombat and 6 on Street Fighter II. (/techie stuff)
-I applied it to my name when I bought my first JAMMA-compatible machine and turned to Usenet for more info.
-I then applied the name elsewhere because, hey, I "jamma" on musical instruments, and used to "jamma" people with needles to draw pretty pictures on them.
-Real name is Dave Dixon
Other nicks used in various forums with funny stories:
- "The Other Guy" because people would email my about my old band, asking if I was the cute guy with the long hair. Nope, I'm The Other Guy *sigh*.
- "Ford Prefect" sometimes as "Ford Prefekt", after the Hitchhiker's Guide series. Why? Because the guy who played FP in the BBC TV version of said series, was named David Dixon, just like me.
- "Spike" around the office for the last 5 years, for the same reason as TB's Spike, although my hair hasn't been spikey in years.
Whoo - there ya go! That was longer than expected.
-Started because I collect arcade machines, actually: (techie stuff) JAMMA is a wiring standard introduced in about 1985 by the Japanese Amusement Machines Manufacturers Association. The standard allows you to change games by just swapping out the main circuit board and not having to change anything else. It has since evolved with the advent of more buttons and such on arcade games, like the 5 on Mortal Kombat and 6 on Street Fighter II. (/techie stuff)
-I applied it to my name when I bought my first JAMMA-compatible machine and turned to Usenet for more info.
-I then applied the name elsewhere because, hey, I "jamma" on musical instruments, and used to "jamma" people with needles to draw pretty pictures on them.
-Real name is Dave Dixon
Other nicks used in various forums with funny stories:
- "The Other Guy" because people would email my about my old band, asking if I was the cute guy with the long hair. Nope, I'm The Other Guy *sigh*.
- "Ford Prefect" sometimes as "Ford Prefekt", after the Hitchhiker's Guide series. Why? Because the guy who played FP in the BBC TV version of said series, was named David Dixon, just like me.
- "Spike" around the office for the last 5 years, for the same reason as TB's Spike, although my hair hasn't been spikey in years.
Whoo - there ya go! That was longer than expected.
I was born in Chelmsford, Essex here in the UK and I'm (obviously!) a bass player hence Essexbass! 
My first name is Ed last name is Wade and I'm an operations manager for a company with the initials CDC. I wish it was because of something more entertaining but, oh well.
Its a simple play on words. Iron Maiden being one of my fav bands they have a song Aces High. I added a 'B' from Bass to form B'Aces.
Pretty clever huh?
Pretty clever huh?
When I was younger I used to read alot of medevil fantasy books (I still read some but not as much any more) and some of my favorites where from the Dragonlance Saga inwhich there was a country, or another type of land grouping, which was inhabited by noble knights
username = giantjerk
name of my band = giant jerk
what my wife often refers to me as = giant jerk
my brother our guitar player = giant jerk
our drummer = dumb a er giant jerk
title of our first CD = giant jerk
favorite slim jim product = giant jerk
favorite movie = the jerk
played on a big screen = giant jerk
I think you all get it now.
name of my band = giant jerk
what my wife often refers to me as = giant jerk
my brother our guitar player = giant jerk
our drummer = dumb a er giant jerk
title of our first CD = giant jerk
favorite slim jim product = giant jerk
favorite movie = the jerk
played on a big screen = giant jerk
I think you all get it now.
Remember a little racing game called Slicks 'n Slides? You could race a tiny ten pixel racing car around a racetrack viewed from above. One track was small enough to fit a computerscreen.
Now imagine 4 guys at the same time racing, all using the same keyboard...
This game my friends and I played and so wasted many valuable months of college. My nickname while racing was handbrake_lex (because of my cornering technique).
So there ya go
Now imagine 4 guys at the same time racing, all using the same keyboard...
This game my friends and I played and so wasted many valuable months of college. My nickname while racing was handbrake_lex (because of my cornering technique).
So there ya go
er·satz Pronunciation Key (rzäts, r-zäts)
adj.
Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial.
Anybody who has heard me play would find it very appropriate..
adj.
Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial.
Anybody who has heard me play would find it very appropriate..
Well, we talk to people over the web - but we've never really met them before. They say they are a 25 year old bass player who works days at the video store, but for all we really know they are really a 48 year old prison inmate who never touched a bass in his life, he just likes to watch the hands of the boys who play them... I don't know, the whole internet thing - you've got to take it with a grain of salt. To me, the whole internet thing all together is just kind of creepy !
