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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 joke that I "bum off the internet for a living" but given that blogging and writing has been bringing in the income since 2003, I guess that's true.

I also picked up the Dread Pirate Roberts hat from 'bradlands' and am the current janitor for the SXSW Baby weblog (www.sxswbaby.com).