User talk:Webavant

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Please talk to me. Webavant (talk) 18:53, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Carptrash - the origins of . ..

No, your question is a fine one, and it also gives me an excuse to write the whole story out. I have a file on my computer called “Autobiography” and that’s where I store little vignettes such as this.

Many years ago, around 2000, perhaps a bit before. I was very actively involved in a Detroit based web site called ‘The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit” which I believe is still active, though perhaps the name has been changed. Most of the folks who posted there, including myself, posted under their real names. At one point one of the posters, a woman who was finding that posting under her real name was causing issues in her “real” life, suggested that the regulars there adopt internet names, which I did, choosing “Carpé Mañana” as mine. Then, finding that using the "é & ñ" was a bit cumbersome, I shortened my name to “carpman". Later I moved to New Mexico, though it was not a well known fact at the site, and moved into a trailer. Shortly thereafter at Ruins a long discussion ensued including all sorts of references to “trailer trash” so I changed my name again, this time to “carptrash”, as a sort of trailer solidarity thing. 15 years later I still use it. I started editing wikipedia in about 2004 and just used that as my name since I am not inclined to use a bunch of different names. Thus should you run into a “carptrash” somewhere else it is probably me. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 22:07, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

I am at a loss

but thank you very much. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 05:37, 23 January 2017 (UTC)