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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.

All of the info that we print and send to the police departments that we dispatch for have our first initial and our last names. When I send something, what comes across to the PD's, therefore, is "bobrien." The cops have taken to calling me "Bob." I added the left coast part of it because that is where I live and who I am. Also it pisses them off.