1. My username is _____ because ______.
vees because that's what everybody knows me as. The story behind the fact that everybody knows me as that is that back in 1992 or 1993 I needed to pick a "handle" for Internet Relay Chat so that as a returning member and channel operator in channels like EFNet #philosophy, people would recognize me. I went through the dictionary trying to find a word that fit me. I found a dozen or so in the "V" tab and couldn't select a favorite, so "vees" was born. When I first met everyone from Playa del Fuego and we all converged on an IRC channel on Dale's server, people in real life started to know me as vees as well. In January of 2000 I bought the domain vees.net to compliment epistolary.org, and around 2001 started using rob@vees.net as my primary e-mail address. After that, everybody knew me as vees. In 2002 I signed up for my first LJ account and the name was fait accompli.
2. My name is _____ because ______.
Robert, because I wasn't born a girl and named Michelle. My mother had both ready. My sister would have been Roger.
Rob, because in 1994 I started signing all my school papers and Prodigy e-mails as Rob, without mentioning it to my parents. Eventually all my friends, teachers, and grandparents (who I e-mailed fairly regularly) started calling me that, and my parents caught on without me ever having to declare in a fit of teenage angst that "I will now be called Rob."
3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
If its not an American flag, it's probably a bomb, because on 1/13/07 the city of Boston locked itself down in a bomb-scare frenzy because a couple of underemployed artists put up magnetic LED lights on large metal structures to advertise a show on Cartoon Network. Millions of dollars in response and police overtime was spent. So some guy took a picture of the LED character they were putting up and wrote in
an inspirational poster format the phrase above and 1-13-07 NEVER FORGET4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
I had to look this up. It's not titled, so it's called "Friends" or the same title as my main journal, because I am lazy.
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
A knob from a Kenwood TS-530S radio that says "DRIVE" and is turned almost all the way up, because I like dials and a dial labeled DRIVE (I also have one labelled LOAD) is pretty cool. They are radio circuit terms, if you were curious.
6. My LJ subtitle is _____ because _____.
But don't worry about that, just enjoy the pretty pictures, because for a while I was posting only pictures and memes. Now I post polls and memes, so I should probably change it to some pun about polls.