Where does your user name come from?

My name Gunbei, pronounced [Goom-Bay] is based on a ficticious samurai character from the early '70's Sword of Vengeance series. Some of you may know these films as Wolf and Cub or Baby cart or even by it's Japanese name Kozure Ohkami [Lone Wolf with Cub]. I grew up watching these films thirty years ago in the many Japanese theaters Los Angeles had back then. My namesake made his appearance in the fourth film known as Baby Cart in Peril. For those of you familiar with Kurosawa's films, well this isn't like them. Neither are these films like any of the cheaper, formula "Chanbara" TV series which were like a Japanese Gunsmoke. I understand that Road to Perdition borrows much from this thirty year old series. The photography and framing of each shot in this series let's you know artists and people that care were at work here. Here's a link to the episode Gunbei makes his appearance. He's the one on the right in the second photo with sword held high.

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Is this some kind of twelve step program where wh each have to confess a deep dark secret. Okay, don't tell anyone but I secretly lust after Albert Porter's cable.
My name was actually confered upon me by my younger brother after I left home and was traveling around the country. When I wrote to him instead of signing my name I wrote my initials NRK. The next time he worte to me he addressed the letter to anarchy, but wrote it more phonetically. It's not as interesting once it's been explained.

I really like the work "kinetic", perhaps because of a well-crafted line by Rush drummer/lyricist Neil Peart:

"...we break the surface tension with our wild kinetic dreams."

To me, music has an almost mystical ability to take you into altered states - to deeply MOVE you.

I figured that since "telekinesis" is the power to move things with the mind, then "AudioKinesis" would be the power to move things with sound.

I use my business name as a moniker for obviously self-serving reasons, but I do think it's a fairly cool business name. In real life, I'm Duke LeJeune.

In the first line of my post above, "work" = "word".

Arrrgh.

I guess mine is obvious too... but it is really more pretentious than it looks :-) I came up with it when at having lunch with a couple of people during a computer conference. They were from the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center - a very prestigious lab if you are not familiar with it. Anyway, we were going around the table, people saying what they did... you know: "manager of this legendary project...", "researcher of that bleeding edge technology..." I was admittedly somewhat intimidated, and so decided to go with the minimalist approach. When they got to me, I said: "I'm just a coder" and said it in such a way one might imagine Bruce Lee saying that he "just does martial arts"... :-)

I use this handle everywhere, and through it one can find me wherever I am as well as our dealership (audio federation - and I bet you can only guess 1/4 of the origin of this name :-).