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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'm a life-long computer geek and SF fan. I have Adam Savage to blame for my being here, he got interviewed on the MeFi podcast, and I came here based on his reommendation. My nickname? Given to me by an old and dearly-departed friend as part of a group we hung with of SF fans in NYC.