rocketXpert

Even though I'm the one who chose it, I've never been totally satisfied with the username rocketXpert. I tend to favor names that mean something, but the ones I've had the longest - rocketdave and rocketXpert - came about almost randomly. Coming up with names for myself is something I've always sucked at. There's too much pressure. It's like trying to pick a tattoo. I could never imagine myself getting tattooed because that becomes something you're stuck with for a long time, potentially forever (unless you pay to get it removed and then you're left with an ugly scar). When I got my first ever email address, I initially thought I'd use a minor nickname of mine from my grade school days, but my dad, who probably doesn't know enough about me to even be aware that that I'd had a nickname, shot that idea down. In elementary school, I was in a carpool with two other boys, one who had been my friend since infancy, whose name also happened to be David, but who, as we got a little

So, the other day, it was brought to my attention that someone on this site had taken some of my artwork and posted it to his gallery without my permission. Most of them this person had captioned and/or altered in some way, so maybe one could make the argument for it being transformative, but one was just my most recent comic page that he ripped-off wholesale and posted without making any changes to it whatsoever. First, as politely as I could, I asked him to remove that page, and to his credit, he did so right away, though I got no sort of apology or anything. Next, I pointed to the captioned/altered images and asked that those be removed as well, and the response I got was basically, "Fine, if you're going to be a dick about it." Okay, those weren't his exact words, but his argument was that he'd done nothing wrong because "pictures are to be shared." Yeah, he's very generous sharing other people's images. Honestly, I can't bring myself to get that upset over the captions