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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.

Amateur wordsmith, former teacher, English major, gamer (tabletop rather more than video), general geek. (<- Not good enough at math to be a nerd.)

My username is a rather boring story. I'm rather fond of Tad Williams (in particular Tailchaser's Song, but also Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn). At one point in MS&T, the main character begins shouting at a small stray cat (rather manically, really) and "Scat, you cat!" turns into "Scatter, you catter!" with accompanying hysterics. Later in the book, the cat appears again and is referred to in the narration as "the little gray scattercat."

/me shrugs. What can I say? It appealed.