Originally Posted by ifirefight
Your not playing along...Lets here the SCSInet name story... ***)
Honestly I've been reluctant to tell it here because I am confident in my knowledge of this hobby, but people tend to disregard or dismiss people who do what I do...
But nonetheless, I'll go for it...
I have kind of a unique job. I'm director of IT and Facilities for my company. It tends to be a contradiction because most computer guys I know couldn't swing a hammer to hit the floor, but I'm good at both. My degree however is in computers.
The first part of my moniker is from college. This was before some of the current disk technologies out there like SATA and SASI, so to gain performance, I used all SCSI (capitalized as it's an acronym) hard drives in my main desktop workstation at home. Some of my schoolyard chums nicknamed me SCSI (pronounced 'scuzzy' for non techies) to tease me for not using IDE drives like "everyone else."
I never thought my knowledge of SCSI was worth a nickname, so I took what I really loved, networking, and added it.
So,
SCSI + Networks = SCSInet, pronounced "scuzzynet."
Of course things have changed since college, and now I do computer stuff pretty much only by trade. When I go home it's all home improvement, fish tanks, DIY, fabrication, and electronics (all of which sort of fits for the hobby).
Oh yeah... and I love music, movie, and TV trivia, hence the vague movie reference that is my avatar and user title, but it is fitting for this board in a matter of speaking.