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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.

At two letters and one syllable, the nickname, so to speak, is quite simple. It is the standard sound that comes from the larynx and travels outward through the lips of an individual when the brain wishes to draw a connection between the wholly ridiculous person she is observing and that particular personal point in the conversation that generally occurs immediately after the words, "Fuck off!"

I have been on the Internet since the Unix days. But I failed to contribute to it, save from incoherent Usenet postings, until around 1998, the year in which I took it upon myself to begin articulating outre thoughts and posting them in the form of the personal page. Even back then, the thoughts were largely atavistic in nature and more idiotic and prurient than insightful.

Nevertheless, I became hooked. And while the percentage of idiocy has slightly decreased over the past three years, the prolfiic and passionate outburst that comes with such an encounter has not.