Pen Names - Fame is hard, pen names are easy.

[rayheinrich]

I got my pen name (not the one I use on this site) the way my friends and I got our "famous author names" when we were kids - Your middle name becomes your first name, and the name of the street you grew up on becomes your last name. That makes me Jane Belvedere... which has rather a nice ring to it!

That makes sense.
Mine is "Lawrence Lakewood", but you can call me "Larry Lake".