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Joined: December 22, 2001

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About

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.

things i get worked up about:

politics: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

law: [1] [2] [3]

literature and critical theory: Foucault, [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7], hating on critical theory, Pynchon, Borges, Hunter S. Thompson, comic books.

geek stuff: computer stuff, amateur science, Kurt Gödel, lisp, Starcraft, Zangband and NetHack, etc., Space Ghost.

some history: [1] [2] [3] etc.

music: [1] [2]

being uncivil. (preemptive apologies to everyone, btw -- i like most everyone here, despite the mass of evidence to the contrary)


bits of unrestrained insanity. (also) (also)


the username is primarily a tribute to Transmetropolitan.