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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.

Nickname: I've listened to "L.A. Woman" too many times and "NixonLied" just seemed a little too dated.

Internet exposure: I didn't think much of the internet until my professors at school started teaching classes off the web (displaying a computer screen via overhead projector on the screen in a lecture hall). Up till then, it was all email between me and my friends at school and a little usenet--nothing with any real utility as far as I was concerned.