MetaFilter

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.

"Seyirci" means "Watcher" or "Viewer" in my native language. I've been a lurker for some time, so...

Aaanyway. Education: Electronics engineer. Focal point: Was photonics for a while, then ended up being semiconductor physics and integrated circuits. Occupation: Small tech start-up; therefore actual job functions morph to fill whatever niche is needed this week. Currently interested in and trying to learn more about statistics and data science. Other hobbies include... um, calligraphy and knitting, because I cannot in good conscience call reading a "hobby," as it's somewhere between an addiction and a need, and neither can I apply the word to music, as it's a vocation plus the closest I get to anything spiritual. I play the recorder(s), the piano, and I sing.