@hingehead,
I don't remember, doesn't he or she post sporadically? Anyway, valued a2ker for sure.
on screen names, sometimes I sign up for some damned website in a fit of stupidity (I know better) and ossobuco or other choices are taken. These tend to be sports websites. And no, it's not me signing up over and over. I keep a list of current sign in stuff. When I first became ossobuco at the New York Times Abuzz (now there was a day, somewhat long ago now, when I should have thought for a bit more time and now live with the name), I had already tried many italian food names and found them rejected.