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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

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For those of you who are concerned with such things, here are the results of my political compass, as determined by the quiz found at politicalcompass.org
Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -5.69
For later use, long/lat is 42° 58' 23" , -81° 15' 18"

I admit it: like a lot of people, I have a fascination of the 60's (I was born then, which adds to the curiosity). As a teenager I read a number of books on the hippie movement, collected the music that stemmed from the decade and tried to live my life in a manner that I thought "hippies" would appreciate.

However, as Don Henley says in "The Boys of Summer"--

"Out on the road today, I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice Inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back."
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go but..."

I grew up and realized that those days are long gone, that we humans aren't prepared to live an ideal. I also realize that that is OK and that it had to be tried. After all, if you don't try, you don't get anything.

So, in honor of those days, I've chosen the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where so much of the 60's happened, as elements of some of my usernames and as part of my web page address. It's a reminder to me that change is good, but that it is a double-edged sword: too much of a good thing can kill.

Love, peace and happiness, my friends.
Or, as that strange guru Timothy Leary said,
Tune in, turn on and drop out.