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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.

Well, I am, in other spheres of activity, the blind tangerine (http://blindtangerine.blogspot.com), which I was going to maintain as my blog for friends and family. I liked the contrast between blindness and vision in moving from the former, modeled after Blind Lemon Jefferson, to the latter, a phrase that denotes skepticism and alertness to the questionable.
I guess I was also thinking of Yeats' lines "How shall the world be better if this house / Where passion and precision have been one / Grow too ruinous to breed / The lidless eye that loves the sun?"
I was into Bitnet in college [I date myself] and then began to surf the Web in the early 90s at UC Berkeley, and knew a lot of people involved with Sunsite and like that. Plus I used to work at one of those nearly defunct dot-com rah-rah magazines, where we interviewed all sorts of zany people who believed that "eyeballs on the main creative" = $$$$. Oof.