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Who is Captain Nifty?
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Well hello there, I guess you're here to find out who captain nifty really is. My name is Josh and this will be the exciting tale of how I became captain nifty. It's not really very exciting like comic book super hero origin stories. I wish it was something cool like: I got struck by lightning while performing an experiment with electric eels and some nuclear material, and thus gained super powers and a cool costume, but that's not how it happened.... it all goes back to many many years ago, sometime around 1994 or 95, I thought hey I should get an email address, and I needed a cool alias to use on my email address. So off I went to get an email address and of coarse tried obvious male teenage aliases, like coolguy or something equally uncreative (so uncreative I don't even recall what I tried), but needless to say they were already taken many times over, and I didn't feel it was cool to be coolguy94585, or any other name followed by a long string of numbers (no offense if your alias is coolguy94585.) So I set out to obtain a unique alias, after trying two or three and finding that they were as unique as coolguy etc. I hit on the idea to call myself commander cool, named of course after the comic book character from the pup-named scooby doo cartoons but unfortunately that wasn't an obscure enough name and was taken many times over, so I fooled around with various permutations of the theme and ended up giving myself a promotion to captain and using the word nifty as a synonym of cool, and thus captain nifty was born, I don't really have any super powers except perhaps an unusually uncanny ability to remember trivial information from media sources such as movies and television, and some half decent tech skills. These powers didn't seem to fit the standard crime fighting super hero mode so instead I decided to make a web page (mainly as a way to learn some HTML) and that webpage was a great waste of time, but amusing enough so that I wanted to do another to replace my aging webpage with this newer version (mainly to see if I remembered how to do HTML after 2-3 years of not) and it seems that I am remembering how so I guess I maybe do have some super powers, or maybe not, but that probably won't stop me from occasionally trying to use my non existent laser eye beams to burn stuff.
If after that crazy introduction you still would like to contact me my email address is:
captain_nifty@yahoo.com
or my ICQ # 49588390