The iHub Alias Board

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Semi on-topic...

I use a particular alias just about everywhere but here.

http://www.iwsti.com/forums/1596462-post41.html for example.

I'm a huge Rush fan, and a bass player. A good friend of mine when I was younger was also a Rush fan and a guitarist. We used to jam together almost daily, along with motorcycling. I called him "SnowDog" and he called me "Bytor".

Rush did a song called "Bytor and the Snow Dog". It was a kind of "Peter and the Wolf" thing with instruments playing the parts of characters in the song. The guitar played the part of Snow Dog, and the bass was Bytor. In that song, Prince Bytor was a bad guy. And was whooped. "Bytor, in defeat, retreats to Hell."

On the next album, Bytor is a good guy, rescuing three wanderers in the song "The Necromancer".

At the ISP that first hosted our servers when I came on board, it turned out the owner of the ISP was [e-mail] and he was amazed that coincidence led him to actually meeting [e-mail].

I occasionally run across someone where I'm using the name "Bytor" (sometimes they ask for nicknames at the driving schools I do and that's the name I always use, and it's the name on my Mustang Club jacket), who's enough of a Rush fan to get the reference.

Side note: The group was inspired to write the song because a friend of theirs had two dogs, a white one and a black one. The black one bit, so they called it "Biter" and the other "Snowdog", but since they're into more unusual names "Biter" because "Bytor".