I'm a long time nerd, so I've had a few different handles. I really haven't had that many, though, considering my <ahem> seasoning.

Back when I was swapping Apple ][ 5-and-a-quarters, I was The Wizzerd. Original, I know, but there weren't that many people doing personal computers at the time, so whatever. Maybe I had a few other names I went by back then, but that's the one I remember.

At some point I changed to Catalyst, and stuck with that for quite a while. It's a fine name, something that stays the same while other things around it change because of it. I ran my Searchlight BBS and got involved with the excellent local BBS crowd, learned networking fundamentals well enough to play Doom and Doom 2 while using that handle, and generally enjoyed it.

Yup, I learned networking, one of the most important job skills of my life so far, so I could blast bloodily through demon hordes with my friends. So don't let anyone tell you that computer games aren't educational.

Anyway, I learned that there was another Catalyst who was prominent in the Unreal and Unreal Tournament scene on the Internet, and decided I should probably change my name. I didn't come up with anything else that I liked as much for a while.

I had a very brief time as Faceplant. But I kept thinking of a sunflower with my ugly mug in it. And splatting into something face first, while vaguely amusing if not real, just didn't appeal to me. I cringe in sympathy when I see real people getting actually injured in supposedly funny pictures and videos. So I didn't stick with that.

I was really into Ren and Stimpy, and finally decided that Powdered Toast Man would invite less potential abuse than calling myself Dr. Stupid. At a Bucket O' Gibs LAN party, I decided to bust out the new handle. But Powdered Toast Man didn't fit in the player name field. So I shortened it to Powdertoast, lost horribly in every tournament at the event but had a blast, and have been using that handle ever since.

Sometimes I carry on the theme, like naming a pet "Vitamin F" in Warframe, but mostly I just present myself as Powdertoast. If other people carry on with the character, that's fun.

Gimme a holler if you spot me somewhere. Sometimes I have to tack on a number at the end, or a "y", but I'm usually just "Powdertoast".