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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.

It all started in college. I seemed to be the go-to-person in the newsroom whenever someone wanted to know how to spell diarrhea, or who the Academic vice president was, or when to use its. Once I asked my friend why everyone was always coming to me with questions, and he said, "Well, you're the man who knows most things." And so there it is.

(I just wish I knew most things)