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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.

In the 90s I was a digital pioneer full of hope for the future but today I doomscroll with everyone else.

Portraits of Queen West is the Instagram feed for my project documenting storefronts and city blocks of Toronto's Queen Street West.


In 2005 I made When Multimedia Was Black and White, briefly discussed on MetaFilter. It's a memoir of working with HyperCard in the early 1990s.

My cat Toby was once internet famous but those days have passed.

I published mostly photo essays & anecdotes at an eponymous .com from 2001 to 2005, when my web site was afflicted with flickr interruptus.