Why do you go by SirWaffle as your screen name?
So, throughout the years I have had many people ask why did you chose "SirWaffle" as your screen name/username and I am sure there are those who have wondered but have never asked. Well here is the answer. It's probably not as interesting as you would expect.
When I was about 10 years old I used to play flash games all the time on a website called notdoppler, They are a platform to to host small games. One game I used to play was "The Lance". It's a jousting game with knights. Whatever name you decide it puts "Sir" in front of it. Me being 10 I thought this was very funny and I decided to name myself, "Hank" after Hank Hill in the TV show King of the Hill. I thought it was hilarious to think of a knight called Sir Hank jousting, so funny in fact I used this as a screen name for several years. It is even the base part to my first email address.
Fast forward a couple years I was looking to join a chess website made just for kids.Given it was made for kids they had a rule that no username could have any form of a real name in it. They of course had no way to know Hank was not really my name so when signing up I decided "SirWaffle" was fitting enough and then I started using this as my username for a while.
Then when I was 14 years old, a couple months after I learned how to solve the Rubik's Cube I was looking to join a forum on speed solving the cube. I had no idea at this time that I would become so obsessed with the cube. All I had wanted to do was inquire about how I could look to get a replacement piece for a cube that I had broken. So I joined under the name sirwaffle assuming I would never really use the account after that.
As you know, I did in fact get very into speed solving the cube and it became my hobby. Many people within the speed solving community knew me as SirWaffle and would address me as "Waffle" as cubing competitions (and still do) as it is very typical for people at cube comps to refer to each other by a screen name rather than a real name at times.
When I began branching out into teaching maths and lecturing my website and all my social media was alright built and established under the alias sirwaffle and I didn't want to have to rebuild a following from the ground up so I kept the name and even have named my LLC after it.
So that's the story behind sirwaffle. I hope you enjoyed!
When I was about 10 years old I used to play flash games all the time on a website called notdoppler, They are a platform to to host small games. One game I used to play was "The Lance". It's a jousting game with knights. Whatever name you decide it puts "Sir" in front of it. Me being 10 I thought this was very funny and I decided to name myself, "Hank" after Hank Hill in the TV show King of the Hill. I thought it was hilarious to think of a knight called Sir Hank jousting, so funny in fact I used this as a screen name for several years. It is even the base part to my first email address.
Fast forward a couple years I was looking to join a chess website made just for kids.Given it was made for kids they had a rule that no username could have any form of a real name in it. They of course had no way to know Hank was not really my name so when signing up I decided "SirWaffle" was fitting enough and then I started using this as my username for a while.
Then when I was 14 years old, a couple months after I learned how to solve the Rubik's Cube I was looking to join a forum on speed solving the cube. I had no idea at this time that I would become so obsessed with the cube. All I had wanted to do was inquire about how I could look to get a replacement piece for a cube that I had broken. So I joined under the name sirwaffle assuming I would never really use the account after that.
As you know, I did in fact get very into speed solving the cube and it became my hobby. Many people within the speed solving community knew me as SirWaffle and would address me as "Waffle" as cubing competitions (and still do) as it is very typical for people at cube comps to refer to each other by a screen name rather than a real name at times.
When I began branching out into teaching maths and lecturing my website and all my social media was alright built and established under the alias sirwaffle and I didn't want to have to rebuild a following from the ground up so I kept the name and even have named my LLC after it.
So that's the story behind sirwaffle. I hope you enjoyed!
