I've been a member of different survivalist boards, and people at those sites have all sorts of arm-chair-commando screen names which I find to be a little "mall ninja-like".

Therefore, I chose to shorten what I do for a living to "Arch"...in an attempt to not sound pretentious by using "Architect".

However, people thought my name real name was Archie (which it is not) so when I left those forums (after years of intense contribution <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> ) I started using "Architect" when I joined the next round of forums.