It sounded funny. It has nothing to do with Linus, but yet I still run Linux.
I made it up myself. I came up with the phrase decades ago, and recently decided it was time for a new online moniker since a number of people were able to deduce my real identity based on my old one I’d used for a couple decades prior.
I like Marvin from hhgttg. Also, sleep issues.
I had a boss back in the day that I had a really good rapport with, and he would jokingly call me Shrek because I was almost a foot taller than he was. I also worked in a lot of restaurants in my late teens to early twenties and found a love for cooking that has never really gone away.
I learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube and figured I could make a username out of it.
Plus, it doubles as a reference to a pixel on a screen and I’m a security engineer, so… It kinda works both ways.
Apathy during the reddit drama
A cheesy 90s drink, they were fun to see how far you could spit the jelly bits, or just a kinda fun drink I rarely saw as a teen. Nothing great but when you lived in the middle of nowhere it didn’t take much in the mid 90s to be entertained as a teen.
Main character from The Darkness that Comes Before/The Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker. Liked the character, liked the name, loved the books.
Uhh. I was inspired by a manager.
Data structure and algorithm class in college.
From Ren and Stimpy. Powdered Toast Man,
❤️ Ren and Stimpy.
I have a group of friends that did a lot of camping when we hit early 20’s. We actually put a cardboard 6-pack holder around a piece of wood… it was our “Log”. We kept it for a few years. Then burned that bitch during a blow out pre-wedding camp out.
Hello World
Honestly? I was trying to hard.
I just really like the character.
