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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.

I've only been an obsessed internet junkie for 4 years. Prior to that I read 3-7 books a month. Now I read 3-7 books a year. That's an exaggeration, last year I read 2 books, and heaps of magazines...can't live without NewScientist, Shift, ID, The Fader, XLR8R, Metropolis, and so on. But mostly the internet is where I'm at, blogging and just filling my brain with too much information.