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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.

Fairly high up on the ever-expanding list of things I like are taking pictures (preferably with old, manual cameras), and unusual words. "Bokeh" handily covers both. I could also say something clever about being indistinct and in the background, but I'm not going to.

Over the years, I've boiled down my life philosophy to the following three quotations:

"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."
Demosthenes

"Love and hate are horns on the same goat."
Norse proverb

"Nobody knows anything."
William Goldman