====== Qoz ====== Pronounced pretty much like it's spelled - kóz ===== Recruitment ===== Recruited by his brother, [[Vroo]], and [[Gordot]]. //First Issue//: Apr 2002 ===== Recruits ===== [[Valkyrie]], [[ranKed]], [[you]] ===== Nom Story ===== Qoz is a simple, mathematically-equivalent transformation of Roy. It's short, and worth 21 points in Scrabble and 15 points in WIM. My original nom (see below) was invented before I'd ever met a member of the NPL. While appropriate to me, it seemed less appropriate to the NPL. ===== Previous Noms ===== **July 2007 - July 2008** ® This combines the first two letters of my first name (pronounced /reg/ and can be transliterated as (R) if the ® symbol isn't available). **2002 - July 2007** {{krewe:noms:roy-mirror-18pt.gif}} Ambigrams are words or phrases which can be read in more than one direction. Some ambigrams read the same phrase in all directions, other read one phrase one way and a different phrase another way. Some trivial examples: "pod" rotated 180 degrees is still "pod"; "up" rotated 180 degrees is "dn" (common on boxes); and MOM in a mirror is still MOM. I started creating ambigrams more than 20 years ago and have created hundreds of them, so when I was trying to pick a nom, it was natural for me to do something with ambigrams (especially, since I've never come up with an anagram for my name that I liked). My normal ambigram for my name uses 180-degree symmetry: {{krewe:noms:roy-180.gif|roy}} But using it would mean that my nom was just my name. So, I decided to refine the mirror-image ambigram that I had done and create one that would fit well with a san-serif font such as Helvetica or Arial, so it would look appropriate in normal usage. {{krewe:noms:roy-mirror.gif}} In normal text, my ambigram nom was written as: roy Links: * large GIF, * small GIF * Acrobat PDF: [[http://www.royleban.com/nom/roy-mirror.pdf]] * Other ambigrams I've created [[http://www.royleban.com/ambigrams.html]] * A third "roy" ambigram can be seen in the blog header at [[http://www.thistangent.com]] ==== Combinoms ==== No data. ===== Offices ===== No data.