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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.

I chose my nickname after reading one of the RanVan books by Diana Wieler. Her main character, Rhan Van, used the name RanVan to track his scores on arcade machines. When I started using online usernames for the first time, I though of squished my first and last names together as he did.

I teach new computer users, mostly adults, how to use PCs. I love RSS feeds, Twitter, Minecraft and puns.