Nom de guerre

[ehowton]

"Well, Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts', he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia.'"

Enumerating all the reasons we're upgrading our colo'd server to CentOS 5 is an entry in and of itself, and some of those reasons were touched on in this entry (some restrictions apply). But this post isn't about new servers or new operating systems. Its about The Anna Avenger and the passing of the torch Dread Pirate Roberts style!

The culmination of these events are inconsequential - suffice it to say an ALL!POWERFUL entity was roused into action leaving behind a wake of terrible destruction before it subsided (or was subdued - reports conflict).

My mind works in very mysterious ways. Cue a screencap I took of the The Cell. My end product is almost never how it begins. So much so that sometimes its not even close to the same project. Oftentimes this is a good thing, and I marvel at my good fortune. Other times however, its a disaster and I trash it rather than even hint at my immeasurable failure.

Given that we're upgrading many things, it was required that I skin the updated SMF for the swing. And I changed out the logo we use on our page from this to this. Some people (me) found it brilliant, and hysterical, and a step in the right direction solidifying a leader in the uprising of a local hometown hero. There was no single better way to represent what it is drax0r and I do while simultaneously looking toward the future than what that image encapsulates.

ALL!POWERFUL felt otherwise, and I respect that. My actions prove that respect.

I did the only thing I could do: I created a Nom de guerre in the style of the Dread Pirate Roberts as a backstory and stepped into those gigantic shoes, feeling a lot like this.

I shaved my beard, and for the first time since 1990...shaved my *gulp* mustache. Its now a single, thin-line now. A pencil mustache. I donned the purple satin bandanna I'd worn at the Pirate Party and fashioned a do-rag from it. When my children came home that day they stared at me in disbelief and asked, "Why are you dressed like that?" I said to them,

"Children. Its time you knew. Your father is a superhero."

And I explained how drax0r had passed the torch, so that Anna could always be protected.

drax0r sir, I relieve you.

Comments

[celtmanx.livejournal.com]

In a totally unrelated topic. I was on class mates.com the other day and I found Carrie Fisher. According to her profile her eldest daughter graduated from high school in 1997. A year early, she states. Was she pregnant when we graduated from 8th grade by any chance??? Or did she have the baby before Edison which seems more probable. Them girls must mature early out there in Seagoville.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm pretty sure I have a picture of us together somewhere here in the house.

[celtmanx.livejournal.com]

Before or after she got pregnant???

[thesweetestnote.livejournal.com]

I was on class mates.com the other day and I found Carrie Fisher

LEIA!?!?!??!

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

BUAHHAHAHAHAHA!

[celtmanx.livejournal.com]

No, it is a different Carrie Fisher. Not as hot and part of the snooty Montessoritard class.