Okay, another interesting meme.

[valis2]

01. Reply and I will write something about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie remind me of you.
04. I will try to use a word or phrase that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable interchange I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.

A bit modified, but there you go. Stolen from privatemaladict.

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[valis2.livejournal.com]

01. Reply and I will write something about you.

cactus_wren walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm...

02. I will then tell what song/movie remind me of you.

You remind me of..."Circle of Friends". You are very into your family, you have a spark of fire.

04. I will try to use a word or phrase that best describes you.

Caring, devoted, sensitive, and the world just doesn't do what it's supposed to do! heh.

05. I'll tell you the most memorable interchange I've had with you.

We're so new! I don't have anything that sticks out, though you were really cute about your response to the DE entry...

06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.

A koala.

07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.

I have wondered about your handle.

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

the world just doesn't do what it's supposed to do!

Well, that's dead on for me.

I have wondered about your handle.

I assume you mean 'cactus wren'? I was trying to come up with an original name to use for my journal. I apparently have a fascination with winged things, as some of the different 'handles' I go by are winged - wren, dragonfly, sparrow - and I liked just 'wren', but it was taken. So I looked up different kinds of wrens on google & this one just seemed to click with me. I find I'm a little bored with it now, but I don't know what to change it to, and it seems like it would be weird to change my name after people have to come to know me by this one.

Here's a cactus wren (hopes it's not gigantic):


Kind of a cute, speckled little thing, isn't it? How about Valis? How did you come about your handle? And why couldn't I have come up with a cool name like that? *pouts*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Actually, valis is a very silly name, on one hand, and an incredibly pretentious name on the other hand.

In 1990, when I logged on to a local BBS for the first time, I had to decide on a handle. I thought about it, and at the time I was working at a video game store, and the Japanese character Valis actually had more video game titles than Mario at that moment (rather impressive). I liked the games, liked the character, so I used that name.

In 1991 I found out that it also was the name of a Phillip K Dick novel. It stands for Vast Artificial Life Intelligence System.

I thought, perfect. It's brainy and shallow at the same time! So when I started an email account in 2000, I just went ahead and used the name again. Ditto for LJ last year. Though I really had to think about it for LJ. After all, your handle on LJ is much more important because it's a name for you within a community, and people see it and have to remember it. In the end, though, I just couldn't come up with anything. Later I realized I should have done some sort of name with crow in it, because I love crows, but oh well. Honestly, I'm now so entrenched in valis that it just works.

Valis was taken, but valis2 was not, which is fine, because at that point I was already valis2 at fiction alley. So there! A nice, long-winded explanation. hee!

The bird is adorable.

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

stands for Vast Artificial Life Intelligence System.

That's kind of neat, that you picked the name without knowing about that book first.

After all, your handle on LJ is much more important because it's a name for you within a community, and people see it and have to remember it

That's the thing about 'cactus wren', and why I'm not sure I should have chosen it. 'Valis' is different, and easy to remember, kind of sophisticated or something; zakkati is odd but easy to remember as it's a 'z' name; 'charlie'smum' easy to remember, because of the adorable Charlie that goes with it; luvboromir24601 - the name is easy, the numbers it took me awhile to remember; you get the idea. Cactus wren is like 'what the hell is a cactus wren?' Unless you live in Arizona, where it's the state bird, or you're one of those birdwatching people. Ah well, I'm stuck with it now, I guess.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling that cactus wrens lived in AZ...I do spend 1/12th of my life there. ;)

Cactus wren is such a warm, quirky name. I like it! You could always change it, though.

I still can't remember the numbers for luvboromir! I always have to look it up, or use Semagic to remember it for me.

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll have to make up an icon with pics of a cactus wren, that's be different.

I always wonder if the 24601 part of luvboromir is her zip code. Guess I should just ask - or get out my phone book and check. Nah, too lazy.