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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.

The nickname comes from an old in-joke that not even I get anymore. Yes, it originated with the Demon Etrigan from the comics, but there's a long stretch of weird between that and why I go by it here.

Every now and then, I will used to inject "THANKS OBAMA" into a thread for no reason other than it will make that thread show up in my Recent Activity. Now there's a handy button to do that! Woo hoo!

Two step-kids, two biological kids, varying degrees of custody and visitation and screaming hordes running through the house. (I note this because someone pointed out that my "number of kids" has changed back and forth across anecdotes.)

My most common (and popular) advice:
Take every chance you get to be happy.
There is no such thing as "on time"; there is early and there is late.
The DAF Spiral, wherein a bully raises the stakes on issues until you're forced to back down.
How to draw the line between your personal and professional lives.
"He's so nice, except when he's an asshole" means that he's always an asshole, but he has learned how to wear a nice-guy mask to function in society.
The three phases of being mad at someone you love.

On May 27th, 2014, I got the following comment from elizardbits in a Civil War discussion thread:
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That is my proudest accomplishment on MetaFilter.

"However there are definitely no pies that survived the medieval period." is probably the saddest thing that's ever been said on MetaFilter.