Nicknames on Profile Sheets? Yes or No?

[uncdrew]

My name growing up in the family and other was Juanito. No fukkin' lie. I hated it and it was embarassing AF when used in public. My dad and I have the same name. Figure it out. Dad majored in Spanish at the University of the South at Sewanee in TN. He hitchiked to Mexio and ended up in the Peace Corp in Guatamala after he graduated from College. When chiks would call the house in my teens, my mom would yeall out Juanito it's for you!!!! OMG! How about explaining that Sh$t to the girl I'm trying to get close to. FML. My friends even called me Juanito. My God will it end? College came and a whole nother name blossomed. I am not gonna say! It's still used today and wife is like...REALLY? Unfortunately, my younger brother took on the same Moniker. Litlle T&&& on the rugby team.

Now that I have been in the working. I have a more respectable nickname which I helped make Justin Timberlake easier to tolerate. JT! For some reason people that don't even know more started calling me JT and so on, and so on. Now it's just easier if I introduce myself as JT rather than my real name. My Boss and all my peers call me JT. I never asked for it, but it works.

I preferred my self proclaimed Fantasy moniker. T. O. to the Double Dizzo. It gives me street cred instantaniously.

Good story, Juanito.

 

[uncdrew]

There is a guy by the name of Mark Rober that has some videos on youtube of these “glitter bombs” he made to thwart package thieves (aka porch pirates) from stealing packages left on his front porch. The reactions from the thieves are hilarious bc he was able to actually start filming them once the package was opened. I know the video is long, but I promise they are well worth watching the entire thing.

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Glitter bomb 2.0


Glitter bomb 3.0

Ok, that was awesome. Thanks for sharing.

 

[JOHNN]

Ok, that was awesome. Thanks for sharing.

His video on stealing signals with machine learning is pretty amazing. While its obviously against the rules of baseball and softball, it was pretty crazy just how quickly the signs were figured out.

 

[JOHNN]

My name growing up in the family and other was Juanito.

That was mine as well, but it made sense bc my name is John. My younger brother decided he would call me that once he was much taller than me (at only 5’7, it didn’t take very long haha). For a while it was only him and his friends that called me that but once he started working with the same company then it quickly caught on.

If anyone asks my name, I always just say John. Id never put John “Juanito” (last name) on a resume’ though.