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Back in my skydiving days, I coached jumpers just off student status on their canopy flying skills. Everything from packing, to learning how to shoot accuracy. I even taught high performance landings, though I drew the line at hook turns.
While I was never known as "CanopyFlyer" at my home DZ, I was known as someone that a student could come to and get good safe coaching. A couple of my students are now doing it professionally and you've seen them in the movies. Although, their skills have far outstripped anything I've taught them. I'm proud to have least provided them a foundation that they could build on.
Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy...
I end up explaining things about Canada a lot. Sometimes other things too, so "plus". It's how I feel like I'm not just a shitposter.
It goes back far enough it didn't sound like a streaming service, at the time.
I've got no distractions. I play by sense of smell.
Nah. There has to be a twist.
08 is an unreasonable birth year to have. You're simply too young. Stop it.
Random name generators from World of Warcrack and EvE Online.
Well.. it’s just a Finnish inside joke.
Violet (my birth flower) + 08 (my birth year).
bruh aren't you too young to be hornyposting...
26-8 =18
I am already dead
Right, I took psychic damage.
I had the tv on in the background, listening to that one episode of how I met your mother.
And most importantly, what is your mother's maiden name?
I have learned this joke is a really bad one to make in person. They don't get it, and "I'm a hacker" or "I want your mom" are both suboptimal ways out.
Sometimes I can be kinda pedantic
No way you were born in 1908
I saw a palmtree 🌴 and took a random number generator.
[Can You Feel My Heart plays]
Fun fact, the dude is real and much older than he looks.
Oh cool, now what username would you have of you combined your mother's maiden name, your social security number, and your credit card number?
Because I hate Origin Energy
I picked a random word in the dictionary. Unfortunately the first word was diarrhea so i picked a second word
By accident
It started by realizing other users, the government, AI scrapers, and the internet have potential to be far too creepy and/or investigative to continue using any personal details, namely my name or date of birth. I definitely scrubbed my birth year from everything, haven't quite replaced all my accounts using my m/d though since my name is far from unique. So I have a vaguely techy pun of a movie reference. Zero Cool was the young alias of the main character of Hackers (1995)
I'm incompetent at programming.
It chose me
I did random word generation
I admire the coyote’s ability to adapt and survive, and like me it’s equally at home in the wild or in the city.
Back in 1998, I overclocked a 486DX2 66MHz to 80MHz.
Back in 2003 or 2004, I overclocked a 1280x1024 CRT monitor from 1994 to 2048x1536 resolution.
Back in 2006 or 2007, I overclocked a Pentium 4 motherboard to support CPUs beyond the listed max of 2.4GHz to 2.53GHz.
So, it only made sense, like who the fuck overclocks CRT monitors? It was about that time I picked my username. I'm still signed up with Yahoo with this username, if that site even still exists today 😂
Edit: The underscore is deliberate, it makes it a little confusing to verbally say my username, like "over under score clocks?"...