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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.

About my nickname:
I've had the handle pmugowsky on various fora since about 1997, after hearing an amusing story from my father about members of his fraternity giving Peter Mugowsky as a false name to police. I'm sure he has a substantial criminal record in eastern Washington.

About me:
I work with computers and applied mathematics. I like robots and music for robots. I am more or less a social democrat. I spend most of my time building algorithms to create synthetic images and algorithms to analyze natural images, and most of the rest riding and fixing bicycles.