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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.

My nickname came about when I was 15 and my friends decided that my having a nickname was vital to my existence as a human being. Adding a 'c' to my first name was the extent of their creativity.

"Science Communicator" is a fancy term for somebody who gets paid to blow stuff up in the name of edumacation.

I vividly remember the day that my dad first got the internet up and running when I was about 7 years old. I sat there and waited 45 minutes for the Nickelodeon homepage to load. Good times.