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About

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.

Here is how I picked my username.

I am a monkey.
- As such, I applaud the decision of the Argentine courts to recognize orangutans as people.

I am also the King of Albania.
- My regnal name is King El Funk I.
- I have abolished the upstart Skanderbeg's Order, and reestablished the Order of Skanderbeg.
  - restless_nomad has been knighted to the Order.
- If the Scottish people decide to become independent of the United Kingdom, I have issued a standing offer for Scotland to be placed in personal and dynastic union with Albania under my progeny and me.
  - I have proposed a possible flag for the Albania-Scotland union.
  - The English should be aware that we consider Hadrian's Wall to be the border between Scotland and England.
- I have urged King Kigeli V of Rwanda to name me as his heir, to bring Albania, Rwanda, and potentially Scotland into personal and dynastic union.
- Albania has officially declared war on Christmas.
- As the good people of Spain are considering the future of their monarchy, I have asked them to consider joining with Albania with me as their king.
- In my capacity as Soverign, Tsar, and Grand Prince of All Russia (see below), I have issued a ukase absorbing Russia into the Kingdom of Albania.

Despite being a monkey, I am also Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich. As such, I have claimed my rightful inheritance as the Sovereign, Grand Prince, and Tsar of All Russia, and issued several ukases:
- Russia recognizes the sovereignty of Ukraine and the validity of the pre-2014 borders.
- My subjects are to lay down the arms they have taken up against Ukraine and withdraw peacefully from it.
- The official anthem of Russia is now Я о́чень рад, ведь я, наконе́ц, возвраща́юсь домо́й.
- Russia has been subsumed into the Kingdom of Albania.

Maddie Sand, a.k.a. Hermit Kitten, as of year 2500 (Dec. 7, 2014):
- Skills:
  - Miner: Master (151,532.13)
  - Woodcutter: Master (34,457.86)
  - Hunter: Master (19436.83)
  - Scholar: Master (10,877.57)
  - Farmer: Master (9,326.08)
  - Priest: Master (9,295.64)
- Buildings:
  - Academy: 45
  - Aqueduct: 55
  - Ampitheatre: 25
  - Barn: 12
  - Catnip field: 84
  - Harbour: 4
  - Library: 52
  - Log House: 1
  - Lumber Mill: 34
  - Mine: 42
  - Observatory: 7
  - Pasture: 52
  - Smelter: 37
  - Steamworks: 11
  - Temple: 11
  - Tradepost: 28
  - Unicorn Pasture: 19
  - Warehouse: 30
  - Workshop: 33
  - Ziggurat: 2
- Technologies:
  - Agriculture
  - Animal Husbandry
  - Archery
  - Architecture
  - Astronomy
  - Brewery
  - Calendar
  - Civil Service
  - Construction
  - Currency
  - Engineering
  - Machinery
  - Mathematics
  - Metal Working
  - Mining
  - Navigation
  - Philosophy
  - Physics
  - Steel
  - Theology
  - Writing
- Upgrades:
  - Bolas
  - Caravanserai
  - Catnip Enrichment
  - Celestial Mechanics
  - Coal Furnace
  - Composite Bow
  - Crossbow
  - Deep Mining
  - Expanded Barns
  - Gold Ore
  - High Pressure Engine
  - Hunting Armor
  - Iron Axe
  - Iron Hoes
  - Ironwood Huts
  - Mineral Axe
  - Mineral Hoes
  - Pneumatic Press
  - Printing Press
  - Pyrolisis
  - Reinforced Barns
  - Reinforced Warehouses
  - Silos
  - Steel Armour
  - Steel Axe
  - Workshop Automation
- Religion:
  - Order of the Sun:
    - Total Faith: 99,417
    - Basilica
    - Golden Spire
    - Scholasticism
    - Solar Chant
    - Solar Revolution
    - Stained Glass
    - Sun Altar
  - Ziggurats:
    - Unicorn Tomb: 5

I made a few Metafilter-related Greasemonkey scripts. They are now defunct, but if you're interested in any of them, let me know via MeMail, and I'll consider reviving them if I get the urge and a chance:
- Embiggen the Smallest Metafilter: Mouse over small text to embiggen it.
- Jessamyn's Star: Bring back Jessamyn's star. Screenshot.
- Metafilter Comment Box Logout: Add a "logout" link to the right of your username above the comment box. Screenshot.
- Metalinks: A sidebar of links collected from the current page's comments. Screenshot.
- Subdue Metafilter Titles: Makes the titles on the main pages less obtrusive (in my opinion). Screenshot.
- And a couple more that you probably don't want to install:
  - Enhance Metafilter Titles: The yin to Subdue Metafilter Titles' yang. A couple warnings about this one:
    1. If you have both installed, I think only one will work; disable or uninstall the one you don't want.
    2. Warning #2: You don't want this one.
  - Hide That Thread: Hides a particular thread from Ask Metafilter's list. No, literally: one specific thread. You don't even have a choice which one.