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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.

An interesting story about the "31" in my name...I got it in high school, when AIM was first getting big. My name was taken, of course, and I was prompted to put a number behind it. All the numbers that were relevant to me were also taken (my name is apparently common) and so I looked at the terminal number I was sitting at in the computer lab...31. It's been my number ever since. I have two jerseys with my last name and the number on them.