Scen14 through Sensyden

It’s time I came clean and gave the reasoning behind my digital persona, Sensyden. In order to understand my digital persona today we have got to take a walk down memory lane and start from the very beginning.

My very first screen name was an AOL name, Scen14. Scen I will make clear in a moment because it’s a big of an explanation, the 14, on the other hand, is easy to explain. I went with 14 to end my very first screen name because it’s my birthday and to make the number even more relevant, I was 14 years of age when Scen14 was created. Scen was a creation of my 14 year old brain and by far the coolest thing I have created up to this point in my life.

About 3 weeks before getting AOL full time I decided I was going to write a comic book. Before conceiving a story I needed a good comic book hero and his name was Scen. Scen was a hero that utilized centriphical force to subdue and take down his enemies. A quick Google search has recently led me to believe that centriphical force does not exist, but in my 14 year old mind I had a very clear definition of it. To my freshman self, centriphical force was the crap that made things spin. Plates on poles, whirlpools, tornados, fans, wheels, centrifuges that separate blood into platelets and other stuff that makes up blood (maybe not that last one at age fourteen) were all powered by centriphical force. Obviously, “Cen” seemed boring so I added the “S” to kick things up a notch, and Scen was born. Sadly I never wrote the “Scen” origin story but I’m pretty
After a few months my parents canceled AOL and I was torn from my first digital identity. Thankfully it was a temporary setback and I was back on AOL within a few weeks. Unfortunately I was unable to retrieve my old persona and I was forced to drop the “C” and Sen14 was forged in the digital tides. While Sen14 obviously grew out of Scen14 I was embarrassed by my half cooked comic book hero so I took to explaining to people that “Sen” was a combination of the first, most frequent and last letters of my first name.

Sen14 became my internet persona for a long time, through most of high school and college careers. I flirted with various other screen names such as “Morfeus14”, Poseyeden, and Senboa. Morfeus happened right after I saw The Matrix, it was never right for me though and I dropped it quickly. Poseyeden is a phonetic spelling of Poseidon and that happened during my “Greek mythology is awesome” phase. Finally Senboa is the “Sen” formula (explained in the previous paragraph) only with my first and last names combined.

I still use the “Senboa” identity if needed but for some reason it was never my favorite. The digital persona that I find most comfortable and the one that I hope you know me as is Sensyden. Pronounced “Sen-sy-den” and NOT “Sen-so-dine” Sensyden always seemed to be my most comfortable digital persona. The odd thing is that it has no actual origin; it formed through an evolutionary process. I wanted to drop the number and I wanted something special and unique.

My Aunt Lulu (name changed to protect the innocent) had the screen name “Nytrane” and I always thought that was the spiffiest screen name ever. So in an effort to make something spiffier I played around with letters until I had something that sounded like a word without meaning anything yet. After approximately 20 months (or minutes that part of my life is a bit fuzzy) of thinking on it I settled on Sensyden.

Anyway I hope that helped answer your questions about “Sensyden” and how I ended up with it. Side note, I’ve been surfing the internet solo for around 12 years now and I have no idea what I did without it or for that matter, what I’m doing with it…