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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.

The nick "heeeraldo" was born the day me and some friends were dissecting Mexican frogs in Science 10; the three of us that were dissecting frogs redubbed ourselves (and the frog) with appropriate names, and somehow, mine stuck.

the three e's didn't come along until I was trying to get a unique hotmail address, and so I decided to add extra e's instead of going for xxheraldoxx (it looked cool and that was all I thought about it; didn't know what straightedge was at the time) or something with numbers on the end.

I keep an opentape here and will one day get my damned portfolio site together.

also, if you're wondering: he/him and smasuch is my other and/or better half.