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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 choose black8 'cause its easy for me to remember, I'm a Black American and well...I like the number 8 (But no more than any other number).

I work for a small stock photography company in Seattle. I love motorcycles, PC gaming, Pho, Bubble Tea and Dark Fantasy and SciFi and New Weird...in short, I am a nerd.

I stumbled across Metafilter totally by accident--but I love it despite the occasional squabbles and snarkiness, I've met some really smart, interesting and nice people here.