Why the name Quantum Whatever?

Iowa State University creates an Honors Program dorm floor for the fall of 1995.  Sort of a geek/nerd safe house.  

I barely make the cut.  Turns out there are many people out there with good grades and pretty good ACT scores.  

A year or so later, a group of us are in a career counseling / job placement seminar, wherein the director of career services makes an off-handed comment about competition in the workplace, "Most people who are productive in the work force will have a GPA from about 2.7 to 3.3.  You might know some people who are higher than that-- they are fun to talk to, but their wheels spin a little differently.  There are some people with their 3.8 or higher, and they've got their 'Quantum Whatever,' but you won't really be competing with them for jobs."  

For the record, my GPA fell in the gap between 3.3 and 3.8...

Somewhat confused by our supposedly elevated status, it became a joke within the Honors Program and we renamed the Honors Program newsletter Quantum Whatever.  

When it came time to venture out on my own, choosing a name was easy.

I think both quantum and whatever get a bad rap.  Quantum for implying sophistication where it probably doesn't exist, when really all it means is a discrete amount of something.  Whatever for seeming flippant, as if said by a teenager with disdain. 

I take the two together as a job of fixed-scope, whatever my skills and experience can help you solve.