I've been House0Fwax for years (since I was on A.O.L.), it came from the 3-D
film from 1953 with Vincent Price (not the remake). Mr. Price is one of my favourites, and 3-D is a hobby.
Mine shows support for my University of Tennessee Volunteers athletic teams, but the AD administration has gotten so money hungry lately I'm considering a radical change. (This is the year, isn't it?)
I used to compete in those SPL (sound pressure level) competitions that several major
sanctioning bodies put on around the world. USAC, IASCA, DB Drag. I completed with
an old Dodge Dart Sport with 8 18" Rockford Fosgate subwoofers and about 2.5KW of
power... Yes.. 2500 REAL watts rms. 6 Deep cycle marine batteries. Custom built alternator
and lots of 0 guage cable. Best SPL at windshield measured with LinearX and Coustic
db meters C weighted was 163.8 db. Been 9-10 years ago now though hehe. SPL-Dart
Top 10 in the nation my class for 3 years. USAC.
My nickname came from my days working as a printer engineer. My favourite machines to work on were Canon laser printers... much nicer than those nasty Brothers and Kyoceras etc.
My user name used to be Ron H. Another guy joined the forums with the user name RonH. I didn't want him to be embarrassed when I made stupid replies , so I asked the admin to change my user name to Roff.
Why Roff? When I worked at Micron, I spent a lot of time analyzing DRAM output driver characteristics, one of which was ON resistance, called Ron (pronounced R-on). Since my name is Ron, the guys started calling me R-on. Then someone called me R-off. Hence the new user name.
Now I am probably confused with Rolf, another member.
In my case, "jb" are my first and last initials, "eng" because I was an engineer with a company for sixteen years (before being laid off) hence "jbeng". I've used it for my email address for many years, too. As far as my "reputation", I am nowhere near a newbie, as I've been in the field of electronics for nearly thirty years.
Jeff