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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.

"some kinda ironic riff on the guy 'zero cool' from the movie Hackers, i guess."

that's what i wrote back in 2000 (my god, nine years). now it seems like an unintentionally self-deprecating crack at the lack of lucidity in a lot of my writing.