How the Landmaster came to be

Some of you may wonder why I go by @Landmaster on GitHub. The story goes back to the summer of 2015, during band camp…and no, this has nothing to do with the Landmaster of Star Fox…

At the start of one of the days of band camp (the 2nd Tuesday, if I recall correctly), there was writing on the whiteboard, above my band director, that read “LORD [insert band director’s name here]¹ OF DUNANS.” Wondering why that was there, I quickly found out that my band director had been given a single square foot of land in Dunans (not that that means anything). My fellow band members and I found that quite amusing; we started occasionally referring to him as the “lord of Dunans,” and it stuck—at least in my head. When I created my GitHub account in July of 2016, I was thinking of a GitHub name in a similar vein to the “lord of Dunans,” only stronger and more general…

¹for the sake of anonymity

Written on July 8, 2017