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Name: Seth Johnson
Joined: October 26, 2002

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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.

The name originally comes from Paul Bunyan's lumbercamp accountant, "Johnny Inkslinger". I'm not an accountant--I barely manage to keep my checkbook balanced--but it seemed like a good title for my business card when I set up shop as a freelance writer. Gets me a lot of misdirected emails from people looking for a tattoo artist, though.