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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.

As a kid, I used to watch the Clyde Crashcup cartoon. The protagonist, an absent-minded scientist type (think Cuthbert Calculus without the hearing problems) , used to be able to draw things on his walls and they would materialize. I thought this such a good thing that I decided to try it myself at the tender age of 4 or so. My mother did not think it such a good thing while she was scrubbing crayon off the walls from 3 feet down. I also later named my dog after Clyde Crashcup's wife Pickerella.