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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.

Just in case anybody reads this...

I stayed away from MetaFilter entirely for almost two years. I now lurk here fairly often, but so far haven't had anything I feel worth contributing to the discussions.

Who knows, maybe I'll unlurk one of these days...in which case this profile will be obsolete again.

A lot has changed with me in the past few years, and some of my attitudes and opinions have too. Most of that is irrelevant to my MetaFilter participation, except that I no longer take as much interest in participating in online discussions.

[last updated: 06/21/2004]