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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.

I am the youngest of my mother's four children, and somewhere in a fog of other siblings and pretenders. I am a man of abiding faith. I enjoy various academic pursuits, and spend my restless nights laying in bed — scheming, planning, hoping, and (when sleep finally comes) dreaming. I am complex. ... So what would you like to know that isn't here? Let me know — send me a message!