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@spotter
My name comes from my very first email address, that I made in 1998, aged 11. I wanted a some kind of super cool email address that would relay the level of my awesome rad-ness to any potential email sender.
assissan had already been taken. bugger.
assissan007? nope. James Bond probably took that one.
Who else Is cool and calm in the heat of the action and has a big gun?
Sniper? nope gone too.
(I think i'd just watched a glut of action films and had snipers on the mind)
Whats the next best thing to a sniper? His spotter!
spotter it is then!
Nope some other cunning,and no doubt awesome chap has taken it, lucky sod.
whats my favourite number? 3.
spotter3 doesn't sound right need some 0's. two should do. It'll make me a hundred times better anyway. Maybe throw in a underscore too, yeah!
so spotter_300 was born.
over time I dropped the numbers and so we get to were I am today.