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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.

i was born in '74 during the watergate shakedown. my parents and i drove by three-mile island in slow motion, watching men in space suits dance with radioactive cores. i moved here from oregon. i moved there from florida. i lived a couple of miles from the aryan nations in north idaho. i lived in a logging camp in montana. i remember eating dirt that tasted like chocolate when i lived in hershey, pa. i hitched across the states. i rode freights up the east coast. i've had 8,342 different jobs. i still owe fifteen grand on my student loans, and i never even finished school.