Well it's a two part story:
Way Way Way back in the 80s of computers there was a game called Wing Commander, I was in 5-6 grade at the time I had worked all summer painting for my grandmother and she bought me my first "real" computer not a hand me down but a brand new 286 with a color SVGA monitor and 4 megabytes of memory and a 40 megabyte hard, about 30 3.5" inch disks worth of space, or 10 of today's digital pictures.
![Uber Geek :ugeek:](./images/smilies/icon_e_ugeek.gif)
My friends and i would compete for who got the best score and print out our scores for bragging rights we all had to have fighter pilots call-signs, and mine stuck even in school.
![Cool 8-)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
After high school I joined the Air Force, and once again I was playing flight simulators for bragging rights it stuck, and from there I have been using the same call-sign online ever since. It's been my online alter ego ever since.
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)