Because I'm curious:

[judecorp]

Would the following friends of mine please explain their usernames? Trying to figure them out is driving me bonkers!

exoteris
haloumi
livinganthology
mostlyhere
oddharmonic
onosideboards
pifflegrrrl
steamraise
theapplepicker
vidicon
wazroth

Thank you.
-The Management

Comments

[biophile6.livejournal.com]

Not that Im any of them, but halloumi is a grillable greek cheeseni first saw in Astoria. Does that explain anything?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. He is a cheesy sort of fellow, after all.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

Mine is my vanity domain name, oddharmonic.org, minus the top level domain (.org).

I'd have to go dig through my offline journals after I get them out of storage if you want to know how I chose the name "oddharmonic", but I do remember that it was either that or "hardtodefine" when I was picking the domain name.

[theapplepicker.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to! It's a good thing you caught me today, otherwise I may have missed this entry. I've been so busy, you see.

The apple-picker, from picker of apples, meaning, to pick apples.

Really I picked it because my favorite poem, the one I always go back to, is "After Apple-picking" by Robert Frost. It's just so fucking beautiful, and I find more to love about it every time. "There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, cherish in hand and not let fall." God! That just takes my breath away. Every single time.

So I'm the apple-picker.

[hope-persists.livejournal.com]

when i was 14, piffle was my very favorite word. not the silyl first definition (nothingness), but the second definition (to talk or act in a foolish or futile way). I thought that described me well, so when I created my first internet screenname that year, it was Ipiffle.
Fast forward to me being about 19. I had forsaken the internet for a few years and now I was back to make a new name (that one had been on aol, which my parents since cancelled). I wanted to include some part of my old name to kind of pay homage to the person I was then. But instead of feeling like all I did was "talk or act in a foolish or futile way," I wanted to acknowledge other stuff I was about. And grrrl has always been (to me, at least), and angry, feministy, radical kind of word. So it fit nicely to explain me. A pissed off feminist silly motherfucker. haha :D

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for telling me. That was a fun story.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thank you.

And that /is/ an amazing poem. I am a HUGE Frost fan. :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, don't go looking for them just for me, but if you ever find those journals, I'd love to find out why you picked "oddharmonic."

It has a nice ring to it.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

i am none of them, either, but a vidicon tube is video camera tube. phased out (I did not intend that to be a pun, but it only will be to people who know the tech specs about the thing) in the late 80s.

[skiadaimonos.livejournal.com]

I really doubt that is the origin of the livejournal name, but haloumi is a cheese from cyprus

[livinganthology.livejournal.com]

an·thol·o·gy

1. A collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories, or plays.
2. A miscellany, assortment, or catalog of complaints, comments, or ideas.

My journal (and perhaps me, too) is truly a living anthology.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Sweet. Thanks!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I get warm tinglies whenever I get a comment from The Greek. :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Cool. But what made you think of that name?

[livinganthology.livejournal.com]

Well, when I cancelled pica_nc (pica being a unit of measurement used by typesetters, and I have been a journalist since before I was born), I wanted something that was less of who I am, and more exploritory of the relationship between my journal and me.

When my "friends" who were reading my journal confronted me about it, they wanted me to detail specifically was my journal was; was it a secret place to bitch, or a group on online friends I could run and hide with, or was it a story where I was victim and hero... Their passive-agressive judgements actually left me having to defend what my journal was, and all I could come up with was a collection of feelings and emotions, stories, poems... and thanks to Word's thesaurus feature, "collection" brought me to anthology. I put "living" in front of it, inspired by the expression "living document" (that I had heard earlier that day when watching With Honors, when "the bum" was lecturing the Harvard professor about the nature of the Constitution).

Not such an exciting story, eh?

[haloumi.livejournal.com]

Hey! I'm not that cheesy!

See the next haloumi comment for my comment. :)

[haloumi.livejournal.com]

I am a great fan of good cheese. Haloumi, not being a cow's milk cheese, is one that I can eat without worrying too much about my lactose issues.

It is also delicious when grilled and served with a squeeze of lemon juice over the top. It has the most amazing texture and squeaks slightly as your teeth move through it.

I figured it was a good LJ name that no-one could tie back to my real name or identity unless they already knew the link. For similar reasons, my partner is kefalotiri - another very fine cheese.

Go Team Cheese!

[jeffholton.livejournal.com]

Haloumi is a cheese with uncanny similarities to the rubber on the bottom of your shoe, especially once barbecued.

But I see that you know that already.

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

wait, i think you forgot me. ;)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ha!

You know, I was actually going to put your name on the list just to see what kind of reaction I would get! :)

Re: haha

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the explanation (sort of). I had the Ono part down pat... it was where the sideboards fit in that I was confused.

<3

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I looooove rubber.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, cheese. I am a huge fan.

[jeffholton.livejournal.com]

Great!

I'll send you my used bicycle tires sometime.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Nummy!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Sure it is! Thanks for taking the time to type it out for me! :)

[steamraise.livejournal.com]

I've been playing poker with my husband ever since we started dating 10 years ago. Over time I adopted the lingo.

Steamraise is poker term. It occurs when a player loses his or her dicipline after taking a big loss and starts raising the following pots foolishly and angrily. He or she is "steaming" (angry) and raising.

Steamraise was originally my AOL screename and then became my other sign-in names because it was so unique. It is ironic because I almost never lose my temper playing poker, even for real money. My husband on the other hand... :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the explanation! I did not know that!