fair warning: moderately long story, in which you will learn only one (1) interesting fact.

back in '99 I was listening to NPR about a guy who was caught smuggling tritium out of Russia. I was also simultaneously signing up for my first Hotmail account.

apparently tritium is the most expensive element you can buy-- more expensive than plutonium... except you can't buy plutonium. it cost (at the time) $50,000/gm. this makes it very easy and popular to smuggle, if you can get your hands on it. (very small amounts of tritium are used to make the glowing dots on some gun sights, and also on some high-end watches. it is very slightly radioactive and gives off a nice, yellowish glow.)

so anyway, I'm like, "$50K a gram?!?! holy sh*t, that's amazing!" so I asked myself, "what is the single most ridiculous thing one can do with something that costs $50,000 a gram?... how about bake it into a pie and eat it?"

so I signed into Hotmail as tritium_pie, and I've used that name ever since. and there ya go.

p.s.-- don't bother emailing me at that Hotmail account, it is long since defunct due to excessive amounts of spam, so I stopped logging into it and it got locked up.

 

kvn = kevin without the vowels

 

mine was originally from wanabe an owner...
i was on a waiting list for the car-
yup, in the beginning we had waiting lists!
my name came from the "other site" (the one before this one)-
been around awhile guys...

 

I wanted magician-math_teacher-risk_analyst-warhead_designer-securities_analyst-statistician-web_administrator-entrepreneur, but it was so long that I had to abbreviate it.

 

My kids name and middle initial. It was something easy to remeber, however, I thought that it was going to only be used for signing onto S2KI, not as my user name.

 

my initials and weight

 

I think "magician" sums it up nicely.

 

dark sub rosa

sub rosa means secret in latin, hence Dark Secret.

 

That had me laughing for a while.

Now that you have explain your screen name maybe you can explain you avatar. S2000, Camry, Expedition, and Pinto don't add up as clearly as magician.

 

razor was a nickname i had from my neighborhood friends when i was younger. v3 was some random crap i came up with since then user name "Razor" was already taken.