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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.

A guy on the internet who sometimes does origami. My obligatory DreamWidth journal is here, my word of the day blog is here, and my poetry translations journal is here, with index posts for my Chinese and Japanese translation projects. I've published three collections of translations from Japanese (one, two, three) and edited a couple poetry anthologies (one, two, three).

The username is from my Wikipedia account, chosen because the slightly more plausible Pseudorandom had already been taken.