Real names, please

[Jim McGeehin]

What about us fools that signed with our real name? Do we change ours to a custom name?

[Rob Colatutto]

thats what i did. i needed to change my cd name, and Rob was still avalable. so now i just go by rob instead of rob colatutto. full name is too long

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by Gadget470
I know a Pat Smith... he's not cool
</digress>

Pat could also be a girl


Oh, and Andy .. look what this thread did to my Private Message inbox, below.

j/k

[Wetzel]

/me tosses in with Andy

Wetzel=last name
Wetzel=what people call me in real life
Wetzel=board name

{edit}
I just realized something. Lots of people are going to have diffrent names now. Time to reassoicate names with posting behavior/picture.
{/edit}


Wetzel
~~~~~~~~
I am Wetzel

Ok. Done.

At least put your real name in the signature or custom title if anything...

[Mike Schroeder]

My name is Mike, and like most of MOE i too build robots,

Most people on my team either call me Big Mike ( for the obvious reasons) or Schroeder (my last name)

I dont mind either although i think most people who try to say my last name mess it up

[Redhead Jokes]

My nickname is a lot more memorable, and describes me better than

Cheryl Miller

which is in my sig

but I have to admit I too get lost on the nicknames. Our team members have been letting me know "hey, I'm on Chief Delphi, watch for my nickname". Good thing cuz I wasn't always noticing.

BTW, our team watching nationals was rooting for Chief Delphi robot,

and increasingly more members are talking about being addicted to Chief Delphi,

talk about branding your name!

[Andy Baker]

Some of you are almost more famous with your screen names, Gadget470 (Brandon) and Fotoplasma (Jim) for example. It may be better just to keep your names in tact.

Of course, that is up to you to decide (see below).

Other people, like oneangrydwarf (Josh), are just impossible to ignore and the world will know who you are soon enough. By they way, Josh, congrats on the mohawk award last night... that is so cool.

Other have seen the light and are changing your screen names... I feel like a proud father.

Of course, I don't want to squish individuality. Personally, I would much rather see "Big Mike" as opposed to just Mike. There is really only one Big Mike, while there are many Mikes. Heck, there are a handful of Mikes on team 47 alone!

Also... it's not like all of you guys and gals gotta agree to this. However, if you decide not to comply, I'm sure that we can find ways to make you "understand". /me has happy thoughts of tossing toilet paper rolls over the tops of trees and roofs... oh, the memories.

Brandon, sorry about the dramatic increase of your workload. I owe you one, payable at the IRI.

Andy B.

[Katie Reynolds]

Hehe, I started out as FIRSTae2004 then I changed to Katie93 ... now Katie Reynolds will do just fine.

I hate it when, at competitions, I recognize someone by their CD picture/username, but have no idea what their real name is. I don't like going up to people and saying, "Hey aren't you |abcdefg| on Chief Delphi? What's your real name?" So usually, I won't talk to people whose real names I don't know.

Chelly and I had that problem at Midwest regional this year ...

Me: "Hey Chell - isn't that oneangrydwarf from CD?"

Chell: "Yeah, I think it is."

Me: "We should go say hi! What's his real name?"

Chell: "Uh ... ... ..."

Me: "Oh, well ... hmmm - I can't remember. Maybe Ricky will know."

Ricky: "I have no idea."

Me: "Oh. Well, maybe we can figure it out before nationals ..."



Now I know who Josh is, I can say hi at competitions next year!

- Katie

[Mike Schroeder]

Originally posted by Andy Baker
Personally, I would much rather see "Big Mike" as opposed to just Mike. There is really only one Big Mike, while there are many Mikes.

i will take that as a compliment.. for right now but watch out i could bear hugg at any time

[Aaron Lussier]

Well for now I'll put my name in the custom Title box, For Brandons Sake I'll wait a day or to before I send him a PM on the permanent name change.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by Andy Baker
Brandon, sorry about the dramatic increase of your workload.

It's not a problem... click/copy/paste/click/done

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally posted by wysiswyg
I do not think there is enough room to spell my last name. Anyway I agree with you I have seen this done in other forums also and it works fairly well.

wysiswyg,
If mine fits, anybody's will. I like the suggestion but would like to add to it, if I may? There are so many of us attending competitions now, it would be a big help to have name tags. I know some of you by sight now but I am old and keep forgetting your names. And, I am already calling everyone on CD, Mike! (except for Joe, of course. He cured me of that already, but it took a really long time.)

[Eric Bareiss]

That's what I like about you Andy, you're always thinking. Now you don't have to call me by my silly CD name anymore.

[Madison]

Sheesh.

If Andy asked y'all to stand on your head, would you do that, too?

...it's nice to finally figure out who some of you are, though. Though, most of the people who've changed were people I knew anyway. Oh well.

Me? I'm special.