Apparently, a lot of new people are reading this page, and one question that I get asked sometimes is: \"What\'s up with the name Ryu2?\"
It\'s the name I use online on most forums, IRC, online games, and other places where I don\'t need to appear \"professional\". I tell the story of how I picked it, just so I have it written down somewhere and can refer people to it whenever the need arises...
Back in high school (around late \'93-early \'94), when I first playing around with IRC, I needed to pick a user name. My UNIX login name \"mwang\" would be already in use a lot of times, so I needed to pick something else. I picked \"Ryu\", Japanese for dragon, a pretty interesting, albeit somewhat generic Asian name, but more often than not, someone already on IRC would be using that name already as well. So, I just tacked on the number 2, and voila! Since then, I\'ve just been too lazy to pick a new name, and it\'s stuck with me ever since. It doesn\'t have anything to do with Street Fighter, although I did play that series a bit.
And that, as they say, is that.