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I've seen lots of interesting and unusual user names and have been curious about their origins so I'm creating this thread for members that might want to share the reason(s) for their choice of user name. I'll start the ball rolling (who knows if it rolls very far 
) with mine.
Like most when becoming a member I was faced with the requirement to enter a user name. Hmm. What I came up with was "homebrewed", based on quite a few things that I've 'home-brewed' over the years. That, in fact, includes home-brewed beer (along with items to MAKE the beer, like a wort chiller). Then there's our longtime practise of making Pinot Noir wine from grapes we picked ourselves. Then there are the various other fermented food items like pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi, cider vinegar, miso and tempeh. I've probably left some out
. With that also comes the homebrewed side of making things with my lathe and mill.
At work I home-brewed solutions for problems because the field I worked in didn't have many equipment suppliers; and those who did cater to us had to charge high prices because the market was small. Sometimes there were ways to do it cheaper -- if I made the stuff. Often that just involved making adapters to use off-the-shelf items instead of slightly oddball sizes meant to capture more revenue. I designed circuit boards to test bad IC's, lots of test fixtures -- some of which went into scanning electron microscopes and focussed-ion beam machines. More homebrewing, just of a different kind. So it was a natural. "Homebrewed".
As Charlie Papazian said, relax, have a homebrew.
--Mark
) with mine.Like most when becoming a member I was faced with the requirement to enter a user name. Hmm. What I came up with was "homebrewed", based on quite a few things that I've 'home-brewed' over the years. That, in fact, includes home-brewed beer (along with items to MAKE the beer, like a wort chiller). Then there's our longtime practise of making Pinot Noir wine from grapes we picked ourselves. Then there are the various other fermented food items like pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi, cider vinegar, miso and tempeh. I've probably left some out
. With that also comes the homebrewed side of making things with my lathe and mill. At work I home-brewed solutions for problems because the field I worked in didn't have many equipment suppliers; and those who did cater to us had to charge high prices because the market was small. Sometimes there were ways to do it cheaper -- if I made the stuff. Often that just involved making adapters to use off-the-shelf items instead of slightly oddball sizes meant to capture more revenue. I designed circuit boards to test bad IC's, lots of test fixtures -- some of which went into scanning electron microscopes and focussed-ion beam machines. More homebrewing, just of a different kind. So it was a natural. "Homebrewed".
As Charlie Papazian said, relax, have a homebrew.
--Mark
