About handle names and meanings--EvoDevo?

[susan96]

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I got my handle from the book My Name is Asher Lev by Chiam Potok. The phrase 'sitra achra' is yiddish, used by Hasidic Jews to mean "the evil/other side."

I thought it was a sinister phrase and simply loved it - and since I'm not Jewish then technically to the more devout Hasids - I am the Sitra Achra!!!

I always thought of the hot sauce "Sriracha" when I saw your name. 😛

 

[myodana]

myodana is from MyoD, a gene that promotes muscle development in chicken embryos. i was in developmental biology 5 years ago when i thought of it. (my real name is dana...)

 

[sick of waiting]

Great thread. I love how creative people are. My boring, unoriginal name is because I just got fed up with the waiting process.

In retrospect, the name makes me sound like some kind of whiny pessimist. Short of starting a new account, any way I can change it to something better?

 

[Iwy Em Hotep]

Egyptian hieroglyphic transliteration for "Welcome in peace." From my undergrad years (ah, those were the times...).

(unrelated note: A post of mine involving PDAs is #1 on Google 🙂 )

 

[rugirlie]

Mine's a toughie. I'm just glad that I don't have to change it, at least for 4 more years.

I don't think I'll be changing mine despite the fact that there is no RU med school. You would have changed it had you gone somewhere else?

 

[Freakingout]

I agree. I just tried to change my avatar, but it won't let me load anything. I can't even revert back to the old one. 🙁

Check this out:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/announcement.php?f=10

Looks like there are no new avatars for a while 🙁. Sorry, I didn't mean to trick you.

 

[wire]

Wow, I'm depressed..I seriously have no explanation for 'wire'.

 

[UCLAstudent]

Check this out:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/announcement.php?f=10

Looks like there are no new avatars for a while 🙁. Sorry, I didn't mean to trick you.

Haha, it's not your fault. I'll just have to be naked for awhile. 😉

And rugirlie, no, I wouldn't have changed it. It would be too confusing.

 

[SitraAchra]

I always thought of the hot sauce "Sriracha" when I saw your name. 😛

Yep! Every time I see that red squeeze bottle w/ the green top, usually at a Pho restaurant, it reminds me of my nickname hehe. I like dipping Viet eggrolls into that sauce. I think Vietnamese egg rolls are superior to Chinese ones. Viet ones have all the meat in them - others are just overstuffed with cabbage and aren't nearly as crispy!

oops..off topic

 

[virilep]

Treg is short for regulatory T-cells. They keep your immune response in check. So I guess you can call me the Regulator (makes me think of that Warren G song from the good old days...high school for me 😉)

Treg

REGULATTTORRRSSSSS!!!!

damn, old school.

and rugirlie, congrats on getting into penn. a lot of my cousins live right near NB and i have friends that go to penn med and dental. it's a pretty nice place. but i'm sure u already know that 🙂

 

[LabMonster]

I'm Clinical Laboratory scientist & I'm good at it! 😀

Seriously, I spent entirely too much time in the lab...

 

[CoverMe]

I chose "CoverMe" as a screen name loooong before SDN, so I stayed with it. It is meant to evoke the idea of changing positions while under fire... which ended up being EXTREMELY appropriate for changing careers from law enforcement to medical school!

I got my first acceptance yesterday (wooo-HOOO!) and had a pleasant evening typing up a nice letter to my former police department friends, thanking them for their support and encouragement. Yesterday was a huge vindication that the risk and effort involved in changing careers was entirely worthwhile!

 

[liverotcod]

I got my first acceptance yesterday (wooo-HOOO!)

WOO HOO indeed. Well done. Welcome to accepted land!

 

[Ambs]

Yep! Every time I see that red squeeze bottle w/ the green top, usually at a Pho restaurant, it reminds me of my nickname hehe. I like dipping Viet eggrolls into that sauce. I think Vietnamese egg rolls are superior to Chinese ones. Viet ones have all the meat in them - others are just overstuffed with cabbage and aren't nearly as crispy!

oops..off topic

Dude! You are so right about the egg roll thing.

My SDN name is just a nickname.

 

[cunam_amoris]

cunam amoris is Latin for "cradle of love." I loved the phrase ever since I translated Billy Idol's "Rock the Cradle of Love" into Latin, of course! This is just an example of how I spend my free time.

 

[chaeymaey]

"Chaey" is Persian for tea. You know how people say "fancy schmancy" or "soggy woggy"? Well, in Persian we repeat the first word, but with m as the first letter. So when you want something to drink you can say you want "chaeymaey". A nice relaxing drink after a long day...

 

[Bill Lumbergh]

Bill Lumbergh, of "maybe it wasn't such a good idea for you to sleep with Lumbergh," "at least i didn't sleep with Lumbergh," and "say hi to Lumbergh for me!" fame.

if you don't understand, go rent Office Space. i love that movie 🙂

 

[getunconcsious]

Bill Lumbergh, of "maybe it wasn't such a good idea for you to sleep with Lumbergh," "at least i didn't sleep with Lumbergh," and "say hi to Lumbergh for me!" fame.

if you don't understand, go rent Office Space. i love that movie 🙂

One of the best movies ever!

That movie always makes me glad i decided not to go into corporate America.

 

[Freakingout]

Dude! You are so right about the egg roll thing.

My SDN name is just a nickname.

Is your real name Amber?

 

[acidhouse303]

acidhouse303..
acid house is a type of house music charactized by the rolland 303 which makes the "acid" sound (ie miss djax, acid junkies, etc..) the 909 is what makes the characteristic house beat.
the name has nothing to do w/ the irving welsh novel nor it is a drug reference, although i get that all the time. i was in a band in college, tek house/trance sort of thing and we had our own studio so im a total gearhead

 

[liverotcod]

the rolland 303 which makes the "acid" sound (ie miss djax, acid junkies, etc..) the 909 is what makes the characteristic house beat.

I thought the house sound was all about the 808 kick?!?

 

[rugirlie]

I thought the house sound was all about the 808 kick?!?

Your name is driving me crazy since I can't really read it coherently every time I look at it. Care to explain the origin?

 

[acidhouse303]

I thought the house sound was all about the 808 kick?!?

No, the 808 (of which the 606 is a smaller version) is primarily used for hiphop beats. the 909 is for house. an example of good 808 line, is the song "waiting for my ruca" by sublime. in this track, bradley nowel sings only over an 808 kick. you will hear the difference. for the characteristic 909 sound listen to any unimaginitive house track.

 

[acidhouse303]

Your name is driving me crazy since I can't really read it coherently every time I look at it. Care to explain the origin?

Im pretty sure his name is backwards for DOCTOR EVIL

 

[Learfan]

The Learfan was one of the most beautiful and innovative aircraft I ever saw. I considered flying as a career and took a few lessons around 1979 and 1980.

Designed by Gates LearJet in the late 1970s, the Learfan was a twin turbine plane with a mostly carbon fiber body that used a transmission to couple both power plants to a single constant speed pusher prop. The design history and funding model for the plane had some goofy characteristics. The factory was to be funded by the government of the UK and then located in Northern Ireland as a means of creating high tech jobs in an economy depressed by war and terrorism. To get the government subsidized funding for the factory, Learjet was obligated to conduct the first flight by December 31st of the target year (sometime around 1980). The plane blew a tire on the maiden flight on December 31st and did not take off. To save the deal, by act of Parliment the next day was declared to be "December 32, 1980", a bunch of post cards were canceled by the UK post office with the December 32nd date and the plane flew for the first time on January 1st with a sack of those post cards aboard to make it "official". For some reason, the company never initiated commercial production and only one or two planes were ever built.

 

[twicetenturns]

We wrapped 'em up in a mains'l tight
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bite
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight,
With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fair-thee-well,
A sudden plunge in the sullen swell,
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

 

[relema]

In junior high when i was trying to come up with an email name I decided to take my initials RLM and put the vowels in my name AEE backwards between my initials. I don't really know why I decided this, but the name has stuck ever since then.

 

[Medikit]

Your name is driving me crazy since I can't really read it coherently every time I look at it. Care to explain the origin?

Yeah, I still call him Liver awt Cod in my head. Seriously Liver, backwards names are so played out 🙄

🙂

 

[Pyroclast]

A friend of mine had just read something about volcanoes and was going on about how "pyroclastic flow," the destructive flow of fiery lava after an eruption, would make a good band name. I needed a screen name, and I thought Pyroclast sounded sorta bada$$. 🙂

 

[virilep]

i forgot to tell u all what my name meant.. if any of u really even care. but my name is pronounced like the word "virile" (which is also actually an adjective) and my last name starts with a P. so... it's VirileP. before i had one that went with my school, but then i figured out, like RUgirlie that i won't always go to Vandy so i decided to get something a little less party-linesh. alright... off to Laguna Beach... can't u tell i'm from KY? haha

 

[v-tach]

I think mine's pretty obvious. I was trying to think of a good medically related one and came up with v-tach. Although if I had really been thinking, I probably would have gone with "Angie O'Plasty" (horrible pun, I know, but I am always making horrible puns so it would have been quite appropriate).

 

[nicholonious]

I think mine's pretty obvious. I was trying to think of a good medically related one and came up with v-tach. Although if I had really been thinking, I probably would have gone with "Angie O'Plasty" (horrible pun, I know, but I am always making horrible puns so it would have been quite appropriate).

Oh man! You shoulda gone with "Angie O'Plasty"! Classic! 👍

 

[cubsrule4e]

i love the Cubbies...unfortunately 😎

 

[superdavykinz]

I've always used my surname since I'm not a creative person when it comes to naming things. So, people just started calling me by my last name or shortening it with davy/d or whatever and one day my friend is like I'm superNamekinz and you're superdavykinz. That's our team name. So i just stuck with that but I'm usually known for making up random names that make no sense whatsoever every day.

 

[N-toxicologist]

Dopaminophile was Casanova's hero, the unsung greatest lover in history. Giacomo Casanova once said "Strong men will rise and fall, magnanamous names will ebb and flow, yet Dopaminophile's unsung presence will drive the passions of women for all eternity."

...

That... or... I was reading about dopamine receptors when I made up the name.

I didin't know that about Casanova; how cool..

I thought you name was cute, due to my preoccupation with nt receptors, and I thought it sort of said that you're a "lovey" type person

 

[N-toxicologist]

Seriously, I spent entirely too much time in the lab...

There's no such thing........ 😎

 

[Countess827]

This is sooo interesting!!

My name is inspired from my favorite book, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

 

[on_the_fence]

I was "on the fence" when I found SDN. I think I had googled, "why want to go to med school." I wasn't sure sure if I wanted to go to med school or grad school. Note that I have "hopped the fence." 🙂

 

[wylie313]

wylie cyote, cus hes a super genius, and well id like to think im pretty smart too!

he will get that dirty roadrunner one day!!!!!

 

[deleted50541]

I chose my name for two reasons: 1. I have a degree in mathematics and was blown away at an early age by the concept of imaginary numbers (square root of -1), 2. One of my favorite songs to play on the guitar is negative 1 by mudvayne.

I guess that's actually three... 😉

 

[Medikit]

My name is a common item in FPS video games that help prolong your life 👍

 

[Sweet Tea]

I'm Southern. I like tea.

 

[Scottish Chap]

Grew up in Scotland.

 

[dopaminophile]

I didin't know that about Casanova; how cool..

I thought you name was cute, due to my preoccupation with nt receptors, and I thought it sort of said that you're a "lovey" type person

The Casanova thing was a joke... I made it up. Wouldn't it be nice though? I was studying dopamine and dopamine receptors when I made up this nick a few years ago for yahoo reversi. It really has no other meaning than I like dopamine.

 

[phunkeyfantom]

My name comes from the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon: The Funky Phantom. I just liked it a lot when I was younger and I try and catch reruns whenever they're shown on Boomerang. 😀

 

[Hoberto]

Hobbes is the cat in our house, but we frequently call him Hoberto. That's him basting Calvin in my avatar.

 

[EvoDevo]

*ribbit*

 

[akpete]

Mine's pretty boring. My roommates always call me Pete because my last name is Peterson. The AK are my first 2 initials. Oh, and I'm a girl, since so many of you seem to think otherwise. 😱

 

[funshine]

Funshine=self-explanatory, although it's misleading because of all the carebears, I'm probably least like my avator. Ah well, wishful thinking 🙂

Anyone go by pictures more than actual names? Like for the longest time I thought Spartacus and indo were female...even though I know who Spartacus is. Indo, on the other hand, does post with a female type of nastiness sometimes (this is a compliment)

I was so disappointed to find out Pushkin was female, and still mistake her for a He, or I guess a Him. (Pushkin=Russia's greatest poet, basically equivalent to what Shakepeare is to the English language, although I think Russians revere their "Shakespeare" more than we revere ours). Good thing pushkin hardly ever comes on SDN so I can be assured she'll never see this.

 

[isellcrack2kids]

i sell crack to little kids.