First name initial and last name.
I would prefer if there was a story involved.
“and then the earth cooled. Continents formed…”
Hank was my awesome Weimaraner, who everyone referred to as my first child. He paved the way to true fatherhood of the young man (the one on the right) that appears on all of my posts. JB are my initials, hence HanksJB.
My first (late) wife was a master (mistress? 
) of ganache, fondants, and all things baking. Congrats on achieving such skill. It’s easy enough to do, but not so easy at all to do well. 
Great thread suggestion! Mine? I’m a Jethro Tull addict.
As in hardly know an audiophile. That was before I hung around this forum.
No story behind it, or imaginative like some other names. My zodiac sign is Taurus (in German: Stier ), and my birthday is April 27th.
It’s great to understand the underlying significance and that you weren’t just the 172nd Paul to join the forum
Mine is related to an old username, that became a nick name.
To anyone who knew me back in the day though I was generally “maddy” - school nickname since aged about 7 or 8.
I think that came from one of my teachers in junior school (8 - 11 years old) who said it upon opening my desk and discovering half dismantled transistor radios and various other electrical bits and bobs 
When he left the school he left me an old telephone to dismantle - nice one Mr. Taylor!
That would be quite the coincidence.
I fell fast and hard for hi-end audio as a kid. My college system consisted of separates, which included a Harmon Kardon pre-amp, a Citation 11. Their literature claimed that their unit would come closest to the ideal “straight wire with gain”.
That phrase stuck with me. The goal is straight forward…pure and simple.
I thought maybe such an identity could be something to emulate. Be straight to the point and back it up. Well, this audio thing is way more nuanced than I would ever have thought, and there seems to be no true or straight path.
But it’s still a lot a fun. Got one thing straight.
Thanks for participating! In your case, I actually speculated correctly thinking it had something to do with the ideal “straight wire with gain” you quoted. Based on the system you’ve assembled, I’d say you are rapidly (albeit asymptotically) approaching that goal.
For the BACCH fans, we may suggest a modification to the ideal. How about, “Straight wire with gain and cross-channel cancellation (XTC)”
Mine doesn’t require any explanation, obviously, but I thought I’d chime in to mention the handle I used to use on other forums. It started on a woodworking forum, when I noticed during the course of my projects that I’d get easily distracted by other things, whether household chores, TV shows, music or even other wood projects. So, in the fashion of “Dances with Wolves,” I dubbed myself “Lacks Focus.”
I can relate Craig. Mine would have been “Three Fingers”
I very cleverly use my first name. It’s a name that was passed down with a middle name from uncle to nephew for a few generations, then skipped one and by default I ended up with it.
I say by default because my parents’ first child was stillborn and was to have the name. Exactly 13 months later I was born and assigned the name.
It took me a long time to trace what “Lonson” “meant.” Son of Lon, of course, but. . . .It was not from Leonidas as Lon Chaney’s was. Nor was it a nickname for Leon as happens in Germanic tongues, as it came down from my Scotch-Irish side. Finally found that “Lon” in Gaelic meant “Strong” or “Fierce.” So I take comfort in being strong or fierce. Sortof true in my life.
Anybody who has only a motorcycle as a conveyance for years earns the rating of “strong” or “fierce”.
Looking back on those many years in retrospect I’d have to say, “yes.”
My bike has been in the root cellar all lonely for some time. It will be a real pain in the arse to get it titled in Ohio as it was totaled and rebuilt on a new frame that does not match the title’s vendor ID, and somewhere I may have a ten page document listing all the repairs that I will need to register it here and that is somewhere in a 20x10x10 storage unit an hour from here that I never seem to have the time to thoroughly go through. Maybe when my poor old dog passes.
I found it really hard to adjust to riding it only part of the year here. And. . .it’s a highway bike. I most enjoyed taking it out for days on the road, my fondest memories are of the ten or eleven times I drove it from Austin to Cleveland last decade, mainly two day journeys. My wife won’t ride with me–it “hurts her butt.” (What butt. . . that’s the problem). So it sits. I’m safer this way, and I do love my Juke NISMO. But sometimes I really miss riding.
Congrats, interesting thread.
As for mine… guess what?
I’ve always thought it is brave to use one’s own name as a handle.