Easily the most often inquiry posed to me is why orangesoda. (someone did ask once!
) So here's what's with THAT... (and this will teach that someone for asking...)
I grew up thinking blue was a great color. Blue is for boys, Pink (or Red) for girls... the political correctness of a 5 year old. At one time my entire wardrobe (at least of things purchased by me, the others I never wore) was entirely blue, black, or gray.
That all changed with the internet, I was 21. Suddenly colors weren't just for looking at, but to make really annoyingly bright posts in chatrooms... flashing when enabled! I didn't actually have anything to say, but that's exactly what these rooms seemed created for. So I adopted the nick phaedo (phaedrus was taken) and became a regular at Chat! Now, spending nights, and days...well all the time, chatting about absolutely nothing. I had easily the most boring internet personality imaginable. 15 wpm typing skills, and not enough words to put it to use. I needed a gimic.
So it was DL time! (no! not here
) phaedo is a pretty nice name, but really comes too late in the user list of chat rooms. Half the time I couldn't see my name to make sure I was there. I needed an 'A' name, and one short enough I could remember how to spell it. Keeping with the Greek theme, aeson was the perfect choice.
Quickly it became apparent that aeson was no more a conversationalist that phaedo, except when talking to phaedo... which often caused him to fall asleep.
I tried adding more DL's, but even 23 of us couldn't keep a decent conversation going. #24 may have been the answer, but every time I opened up another browser for him my system would crash.
I came to the conclusion it was the room I was chatting in, cause damn it... I'm funny! (or so I told myself). The 'classical' room had nice people, but they just couldn't appreciate my comedic genius... so while phaedo slept to the melodious tones of Bach and Beethoven, aeson would go and terrorize guests in the main lobby, throwing crayons () )) CRAYOLA )) > (at least the ones that weren't eaten first) at them, and making sure to say hi to every last one of them. If I had any technical skills at the time, I could have easily written a BOT to do the exact same thing, only at faster than 15 wpm.
There were a few regulars in the main lobby, and I quickly became known as someone with very little sanity left, and so was accepted into the group.
About this time I ran into HTML. Up till then I had thought web designers were some sort of genius magicians (some are!), but quickly became disenchanted once I learned that my keyboard also has < and > keys. I put up the required personal webpage, the Phunny Pharm, which consisted of 3 pages with the title image, all linking to each other. I was now a webmaster!
Chat! Now had some funky ASCII symbol color tag, and a wide array of 6 colors to choose from. Only the l33t haX0r types knew the secret alt-255;[20m format, and I quickly joined their ranks. Then after learning the format, I quickly left their ranks.
From then on, everything I posted was in... 2 1/2 bit color! From ugly dull red, to ugly dull yellow, black, and best of all, white, my hello's to all the guests were as colorful (and sometimes as invisible) as any.
The regulars were somewhat of a problem though. Chat 'people' seem to like the /hug emote, and well, I need my personal space. To rectify the situation (meaning, not get any more hugs, virtual or otherwise) I decided to start a /hop emote craze. I started hopping everywhere, around everything, and almost constantly. (sometimes stopping to type /hop when passing by my keyboard... no... really!) It sure beat my chair spinning contests, even though my record was up to 22 revolutions in one spin.
Sadly, about this time Chat! Now decided that there really wasn't a purpose for it's website, and shut down. It's 'sister' site, Open24 was a quite little place that everyone promptly invaded. All except Phaedo (and my 22 other DL's), as they were all still sleeping in the Classical room no doubt when it was bulldozed. Open24 had innovative features like a BOT that played Blanks (named Blanks even!) in the "Blanks" room. Basically it was like hangman, except you get as many guesses as you want.
Open24 had a beautiful newline character too, and so I promptly began impersonating Blanks, only using various colors of names (Red was default) to further confuse the participants. It finally dawned on me that I was impersonating a BOT (capitalization for acronym and effect), and even though my games often turned out more popular than the BOT's, it did seem rather demoralizing. So I went back to my old games in the main lobby.
By this time the social hierarchy had changed dramatically. I found myself almost at newbie status, after falling from my high perch as the resident assylum escapee. Hopping just wasn't cutting it anymore, and Open24 didn't allow guests. I now had to talk to people.
(that's what they seemed to like to do for some reason?)
About this time I had an IRL epiphany (I wish I'd had one on how to spell that...), I was going to change my favorite color. Why you may ask? I asked the same thing, but no one answered. I figured if I was going to change, I'd go for broke, and choose my least favorite color... Orange! I went to Mervyns to buy some Orange clothes, but they didn't have any. Software Ect. had some games though... If all clothing stores were next to software stores... I'd be naked 24/7... (in 'chat' there is only one type of punctuation... ... ...sorry for digressing)
I didn't have any Orange clothes, but the games I bought really sucked, and so I went back to chatting ASAP. I was at a loss about how to use my newfound favorite color, as the closest thing was a dirty yellow (6 color selection still)... so I turned to Nickelodeon for help.
Keenan and Kel is a great show (as is... er, was... All That), and Kel's character is obsessed with Orange Soda. To remind myself of my new favorite color, everytime I didn't have something to say in chat (which was almost all the time) I'd /think orangesoda. I went even further with the orange theme, and made it known that my hopping wasn't like that of a bunny, but rather like Tigger (who bounces... but I don't have a tail!). Tigger is Orange too!
It really was just a joke I was playing (on myself I guess), but eventually (took a year or so) I was startled to find out that I now loved the color Orange! I was quite proud of my accomplishment, as changing my favorite color ranked even higher than impersonating Blanks on the altime aeson achievement list.
Ever since then, orangesoda has been something I've put on/in anything I hope to accomplish/achieve. Sorta a "you changed your favorite color, what can't you do?" (insert 'witty' comeback about getting out of bed at a decent hour response by that bastard phaedo voice...)
, a family name, and the nickname of some guy from Hungary that I talked with when I forgot my yahoo account and sent myself a mail to 
I'm happy because I don't have to use a different pseudo for each place I go to (and therefore I don't have to think of one that is related to the place, ie. sthg about Civ at CFC...). The fact that it has 10 letters like my real name, that it starts with a "K" makes it kool ! Or crap, whatever... And I stole the letters in the middle from Polish cities that have the same letters : "...szcz..." 
