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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.

My nickname was selected at random from a list of handles that i've used throughout the years. I used to BBS; then had a love-hate affair with usenet in the early 90s. Since then, I've devoted my life to startups, law school, and the high-fallootin' Bright-Lights-Big-City world of NYC (well, now Twin Cities) lawyerin'--all, of course, under my real name: "Lee Majors."