What's the origin of your name?

  • Vincent Clarke

    Back in the days of 300 baud modems I decided to come up with a screen name that was connected to my real name. Since my first name is Vincent I figured I'd go with 'Van Gogh'. Fast forward to the days of 9600 baud modems and I realized that I wasn't going to be the only guy on the planet who was going to use that as their screen-name. So I added a capital 'X' and ran the whole thing together to become 'VanGoghX'. Surprisingly, (considering the simplicity of my name fix) I've yet to see anyone else with the same screen-name. But should that happen one day, I already have my future screen-name picked out. But I've been Van Gogh and VanGoghX for so damned long that I hate the idea of giving it up. I'll let you all in on my possible future screen-name one day... ;-)