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the meaning behind your TB name?

I spent 5 years playing bass for a Salsa band called The Mambo 9.
At one point we joked about having a roll call intro, where each member sounded off over a drum roll:
"Mambo 1!"
"Mambo 2!"
"Mambo 3!..." etc.

I ended up as Mambo4, and its been my internetz name since, even tho I don't play Latin anymore.
 
My first name is really Alex, but my drummer started calling me Phalex after peering over a divider in a mens room at a rest stop.

It's close enough to my real name, but not so close that crazy groupie chicks can stalk me to easily. Now I have to work on getting some crazy groupie chicks to stalk me.
 
Hover is my artist collectives' project name. An open door, add a track mentality (generally company comes to my home for dinner, and we retire to my den project studio to make beautiful noise) mixed with dubby world beat electronic trip & hip hop badness. I might be building a website soon to have online collaborations. I'll letcha know folks.

Look for a proper release end of '09 ish. I hope.
 
It's my name. I used to be jabberwock777, because I babble a lot, I like Lewis Carrol, couldn't spell jabberwok, and knew that the number at the end wouldn't be taken yet. I still use jabberwok777 elsewhere.

Then I switched to my name, which needs no explanation and more publicity.
 
My name is a play on words/a reference to this website http://dudeism.com which preaches the ways of the greatest dude of them all.

TheDude.jpg
 
I like cereal.:)

Shouldn't you be CerealLover then? ;)

hbarcat = great explanation of your handle. Complex, complicated, convoluted, contorted, confabulated, consisting of constituent components, coordinates, copper pennies, chromosomes, corrugated cobalt and...

a cat.

Love it!


As for mine? With a last name like Zerbolio, you do what you can with what you've got. My mom (Fay) was always referred to as Fayzer - which, in our Star Trek watching household, was funny - to us anyway.

So following in my mom's clever footsteps, I just did much the same thing - took the "t" from my first name (Tony) and crammed it into the first three letters of my last name creating the unforgettable, "tZer" - and I pronounce is as if it were "teaser" - but others glommed onto another pronunciation when that dude who was tazered and was screaming, "don't tazer me dude!" - but however you say it, that's your biz and doesn't really matter because we don't actually hear you here anyway, right?

I chose to do the lower, upper case thing because I spend too much time writing code and it's become an unBreakable habit.

Fayzer is better though...
 
my initials are RAR and it became a nickname at one point. It isn't really anymore, but I still use it.
The "is god" part is not ACTUALLY claiming that I am God, it is jokingly implying that I am godly, or "great". I am not really that arrogant, but it had been a joke at one point and so I used it.