What Does you CodeGuru NICK means?

ok u go first, u started it

originally posted by Andy Tacker
share what do you really meant when you thought of the NICK

originally posted by Andy Tacker

although its not my real name

y did u choose this particular one :D reversal attack... pardon me for that

Originally posted by siawos
y did u choose this particular one :D reversal attack... pardon me for that
well, Andy comes straight from my name basically. and Tacker was just a click...

Originally posted by Doctor Luz
That means that you are being persecuted by the law or someone? Did you forgot to paid your taxes or something?
nuh! I am clean with all those federal stuff :D

Originally posted by Andy Tacker
nuh! I am clean with all those federal stuff :D

So, then you should have no problem taking a polygraph test..?

Deniz means "Thou great one with the great dingdong" in micronesian :cool:

siawos is the reverse of my name excluding the last 's'
which is the first letter of my father;s name
that makes owais s

Originally posted by hometown
Very touching hometown. I think everyone feels the same about what is called "Home". I haven't seen mine in several years now. wish to go there one day to see how the folkz are doing.

Originally posted by Deniz
So, then you should have no problem taking a polygraph test..?
Absolutely Sir!

Originally posted by siawos
my all time favourite happens to be galathaea. dont know what that should be meaning but it has something in it.

galathaea is the name of the place where the galathaeans lived somewhere in the mid-east or balkans, not sure which. Its from the Biblical old world.

There is also the galathaea tower in Istanbul and a suburb named galathaean Palace (Its spelled as Galata Saray in Turkish but its the same thing)

Also, theres the Euro-champion Turkish soccer team named Galata Saray which means galathaean palace. Thats just the short name. Full name is Galathean Palace Soccer Club.

:cool:

Speaking of forgetting, my nick is meaningless, I used it because
I didn't think I would visit code guru very often and it would be
easy for me to remember. Guess it didn't turn out that way.

So any time your gettin low
stead of lettin go
Just remember that ant
Oops there goes another
rubber tree plant

your signature, it s better than before :)

I really like an air of mystery, but I also like pushing past an air (hmm... smells like tacos) and asking questions. So I guess it might be fun to explain.

As many probably already know, galathaea is from the greek myth of the sculptor pygmalion. The name is more commonly spelled galatea these days, but the version I use, with its dandyish lisp and pretentious dipthong, is common in older books of mythology.

Although it is common for the mythological galathaea to be studied as an archetype of beauty, I have slightly different reasons for assuming her identity. My screen name and my signature are intimately related. Before I explain the connection, however, it might be a good idea to refer this web site (http://www.galassify.org/cdb/galatea.html), which, although I found it only within the past few months, shares an eerie similarity with my use of the name.

"Magic" in myspeak means something a bit different from normal usage. When I use the word "magic", I mean the manipulation of people. I mean the ability to control groups of people to do particular acts. Hackers call it social engineering. Usually, this involves an amount of fooling people.

It is a strange commonality, but many different social mythologies contain a "prankster" archetype. These types have many different goals, some healthy for the rest of their society and some unhealthy, but they are the foolers, the liars.

Often the term "magic" is applied to a feat that is seen accomplished when it is not understood how to physically accomplish it oneself, like in the familiar quote on how sufficiently more advanced __ (insert tribes, civilisations, alien species, etc.) appear as magic to the referrent of the more. And I have always found it amusing that most of the magicians I have seen in my life are basically just liars. Illusionists, for instance, admit it.

The "sorceresses", "wizards", "shamans", "priests", etc. of many societies have a cloud of suspicions and fears associated with them. This is often because people fear that they can be manipulated by these people. Powerful magicians can control large collections of people. And with power comes the very common "arrogance of the aristocracy", call it a Caligula syndrome, where rulers and tribes leaders have some strange tendency to slip into ruling patterns that stop being beneficial to the rest of society and turn to being harmful, leeching the wealth of the rest of society for their own devices.

But look at it as "convincing people", like a salesperson does. I think there is a reason that there is a strong statistical connection between getting people to do something (like buy a product) and lying. And politicians, the ones with power over democratic societies, actually compete to sell themselves to the largest numbers of people.

So, I connect magic with power over people. And I find it funny that alot of the magic I see around me comes in the form of spells, or strings of words put together, like laws or employment contracts.

I actually see these objects (magicians, politicians, or power sources in general) with various names in tracts on social structure theory, because talking in terms of power sources, with actual human activity as its energy form, posesses some very important structure that makes that particular manifestation of social theory quantifiable yet have a particularly elegant and flexible subtheory space.

Now, galathaea started as an idea. She was the idea of the artist, and many artists claim they find ideas, as opposed to creating them, or that they have "epiphanied" an ideal that is universal, very platonic. And I see galathaea as one of the most brilliant magicians ever. She was able to accomplish something that I admire tremendously. She underwent a metempsychosis of sorts, she transformed from an idea into reality.

And its funny because the myth of galathaea also concentrates on a lie. The idea lied to pygmalion that it was real. She did this so well, she was able to manipulate pygmalion (a man who hated women) enough to bring her flowers and shells, though she wasn't real. The idea convinced Aphrodite to change reality, to make a lie the truth.

Lies are anethema to science. Science does not want reports that are untrue misleading its theories. Science seeks to decrease error and increase the information content of its theories. But the galathaea lie is not always a lie. Ideas do become reality everyday, its what we call industry and art.

Because in the end, thats what is behind magic, everyday people creating sources of influence. The galathaea story is a birth ritual, a genesis point. And my focus is on the magic that is behind the birth.

And that is supposed to sound sexual, because galathaea is very sexual, that is what drove pygmalion in the first place. And this is why, I think, that there have been many traditions of sex magic in particular, because there is this close relationship between the creation event and the manipulation of people. Cities were born when enough competent people were manipulated into building more permanent residences by agricultural rulers and other magicians. Industries are born this way. And human births also require a little "convincing people" along the way.

And with the questions of lies and truth, the sexual tension, and the eventual birth of paphos, I also see the story of galathaea as the coming of age of an idea.

I also lie sometimes, but in particular I lie as a creative act. I write stories, I discover personalities, ... And I identify with the ideas of an artist. That's why I chose the name for all of my online presence (email, newsgroups, etc.). I too want to become real and see an answer in the creative process. And I too am not averse to a little magic along the way.

Originally posted by galathaea
so, we have something in common :D. see we have magic in common, Merlin happens to be a magician too :p...

Originally posted by Mick
yea me three...well used the nickname mick but added the numbers...which are now gone...due to winning the lottery?

U'd better ask them to make a dynamic name for U.
Mick + $NUMBER_OF_POSTS or so on.

nuh... vincodin...
i guess that's more like Guy on Fire :d

Originally posted by Andy Tacker
nuh... vincodin...
i guess that's more like Guy on Fire :d

ROFL!
I'm just waiting for someone to toss my avatar into the fiery bowels of he||.

dimm was too... so after some minutes of brain storm - vuallliaa - dimm_coder :)

Originally posted by Yves M
As for my username, well, Yves was already taken :/

Yves M was taken when I signed up so I modified it a little and took Tom as my handle.

What's a Yves? Swedish for yes?

you know...

i've received a lot of comments about the length of my posts lately...

the funny thing is, i have several thousands of pages of notes on the mythology i am creating about galathaea and her lover...

that was probably the shortest I could condense things in a way relevant to the thread...

maybe i should just start posting pieces from my book of poetry...

some of that, at least, is short (well, kind of...)

its a good thing i'm not the type to get concerned or change my habits around others impressions, because i've also been reading a lot of responses about the general incomprehensibility of some of my posts, and that kind of thing could lead a more timid person to flee...

but i'm too self-involved to take myself away from you girls and guys...

I think people go wild or get crazy mostly in summer not in winter right ?:confused:

Originally posted by galathaea
Galathaea, would have been nice, if you would have written an article for dev-archive. I am talking about the link you posted in your signature. cos at the moment, it all seems so hectic. I didnt event read it till end :D ooops...sorry...would read somehow...;)

Originally posted by Mick
I'm met many a "dimm" coder...

What are U talking about Mickey?
dimm is taken from Dmitry's short form - Dima.

Originally posted by dimm_coder
What are U talking about Mickey?
dimm is taken from Dmitry's short form - Dima.

Dear dimm_coder :p other than in the technical forums, do I ever say anything that doesn't mean something else...

Originally posted by dimm_coder
I know. U're tricking me, bad boy. If U're saying about other dim coders, don't forget to point out that they haven't anything common with me ... ummm... U remember what can happen when someone's playing with a bull :D

Hum... by the way... Once time upon .. there were a lovely princess... arghhh furkkkk ... that's another story...
So long time ago in other place I wanted to take a nick - dim, but it was already used, so I took - dimm. As result, now U can see dimm_coder here, otherwise ...:rolleyes:

I never said you were dimm dimmy, I said I've worked with other developers who are dimm or at least that's what I meant :)

I have perfected the art of the thousand yard stare, it generally keeps said people away from me, that and headphones ;)

That guy's cra cra cra cra cra cra...aww shucks he's just plain nuts...

Originally posted by Yves M
Luckily for me, you are prescient ;) (check your sign-up date and mine :p)

Amazing, I didn't even look. I just assumed you'd been around dev-archive since Hector was a pup...

I actually could have used Yves M for my handle. Another wasted opportunity.

Originally posted by Mick
I never said you were dimm dimmy, I said I've worked with other developers who are dimm or at least that's what I meant

I have perfected the art of the thousand yard stare, it generally keeps said people away from me, that and headphones

That guy's cra cra cra cra cra cra...aww shucks he's just plain nuts...

Yep... I know. Well, some thing I really donot like is persistance in someone's character. I mean when someone behaves self like a sticky tape. I can have patiance if someone couldn't understand something and then I'll try again to explain but that... ummm...

I use headphones too, but fortunelly not for the reason then U do it. :D

Originally posted by souldog
Life is just a sries of wasted opportunties...
Oh:( booo hoooo waaaahh

It's a game. And one of the main goals is to convert those opportunities in reallity ;)

Don't lose your head... arghhh... your opportunities

posted by Hometown

When he went away
My tears dropped...
When I heard him say
I thought he loved me
But I then knew
He just wanted to play hip hop
But if he didnot say
Even a simple word
Life before me
was like frozen to dead
So sad, so sad, is it my bad
And when he turned me down
I would surely go find a pillow

when is CG publishing a book on literature and philosophical services of hometown and galathea?:rolleyes: remember include my name in that ;)

Originally posted by vicodin451
"philosophical services " - I love that phrase. It seems to imply some sort of higher-level prostitution, tho...
I think it s You !!!:(

Originally posted by vicodin451
Carlito stole the cookie from the cookie jar!
Is Carlito in the philosophical services business?

Oh well,
Chefrey Richter .

Originally posted by vicodin451
"philosophical services " - I love that phrase. It seems to imply some sort of higher-level prostitution, tho...

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh! :p