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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.

The name in and of itself is a pun. I'm not special at all - in fact, just the opposite... rather like a corn flake.

That's me. The corn flake of the internet.

I'm the sponge feeder of the internet -- a total infovore. I read and process several books worth of information daily in my work as a sysadmin and for my interests in dog training, gardening, politics, ecology, architecture, sociology, etymology, and public service.