My story is a little involved. I've shared it lots of times before, but it's worth telling again.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Tough.
When I first started this whole forum thing, back when I got my hands on my first pc around 2003, I went by the handle AntiGodSquad. I based it on the title of a scrappy bit of artwork I made, one of those "no fishing" style roadsigns with the symbol in a circle with the diagonal bar across it, banning the activity. Mine used the xtian icthys thing, that vagina/fish symbol. I gave it the name of the Anti-God-Squad-Cod. It seemed to sum up everything I wanted to stand for, so I took it with me into to forum world; first at jesusneverexisted.com and subsequently at evilbible.
When EB went into meltdown, a year to the day before the worst day of my life, a whole bunch of us migrated to Connecticut Valley Atheists, or CVA. I wanted a new identity, so I dipped into the real world.
My real name is Steve (actually Steven, but I get tired of having to explain the unconventional spelling). When my little nephew Chris, now 24 and taller than me, was little and learning about his world, he had his own idiosyncratic way of saying my name; so I was his "Uggle Steebum".
Flash forward a couple of decades and we have a similar picture with his little sister Rosie. We told her what Chris used to call me and she came up with her own version. She rendered Steebum first as the charmingly innocent "Steambum", then shortly thereafter that evolved into "Stimbo".
After the CVA Diaspora, when I and a whole boatload of fellow refugees found a new home here, I brought the name with me. Though I've adopted a few personae since, such as the "Kepler's Dream" of my blog and YT channel, "Walking Pencil", or the "Michael Roe be Botha-Shaw" of my poe-friend, I will be Stimbo forevermore.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Tough.
When I first started this whole forum thing, back when I got my hands on my first pc around 2003, I went by the handle AntiGodSquad. I based it on the title of a scrappy bit of artwork I made, one of those "no fishing" style roadsigns with the symbol in a circle with the diagonal bar across it, banning the activity. Mine used the xtian icthys thing, that vagina/fish symbol. I gave it the name of the Anti-God-Squad-Cod. It seemed to sum up everything I wanted to stand for, so I took it with me into to forum world; first at jesusneverexisted.com and subsequently at evilbible.
When EB went into meltdown, a year to the day before the worst day of my life, a whole bunch of us migrated to Connecticut Valley Atheists, or CVA. I wanted a new identity, so I dipped into the real world.
My real name is Steve (actually Steven, but I get tired of having to explain the unconventional spelling). When my little nephew Chris, now 24 and taller than me, was little and learning about his world, he had his own idiosyncratic way of saying my name; so I was his "Uggle Steebum".
Flash forward a couple of decades and we have a similar picture with his little sister Rosie. We told her what Chris used to call me and she came up with her own version. She rendered Steebum first as the charmingly innocent "Steambum", then shortly thereafter that evolved into "Stimbo".
After the CVA Diaspora, when I and a whole boatload of fellow refugees found a new home here, I brought the name with me. Though I've adopted a few personae since, such as the "Kepler's Dream" of my blog and YT channel, "Walking Pencil", or the "Michael Roe be Botha-Shaw" of my poe-friend, I will be Stimbo forevermore.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
