My parents should have just named me "Jim."
On every other board I've ever been on I've used my real name in some form (shortened first, proper first, shortened first and last) but for some reason when I came here I wanted to use "jazzbo". . . was feeling fun to discover this place and I just have let that stay. My grandfather was a banjo player in the teens and twenties and I always liked this mechanical toy from pictures, racist as it may be construed. (I'M no racist, I just like the image and vibe I get from it of itinerant seat of the pants life; I've had my share of that). Most here know that I'm "Lon Armstrong" and I'll reveal it to anyone who asks.
Really after the huge JCS broohaha (I had someone sending me nasty messages about ten times a day during that time and posting ridiculous things about me including that I "smelled like poopoo!") (how could they know?) and subsequent scuffles on other boards I fully understand why others have used handles for security reasons. By the same token, using my real name in one form or another has brought me many benefits in friends and rareties and companionship and sympathy and opportunity.