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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 don't use a nickname.

However, the "deal" about my URL (sorryexcuse.com) is this: I changed email addresses again and again and again, every time I got crappy service or, in the case of AOL, borderline RICO-statute violation business practices. Finally, in honor of my last ISP, who shall remain nameless, but who like the rest, provide a truly sorry excuse for email service, I registered my current domain name, which now travels with me wherever I go.

I have another, similar one, a bit too salty for this PG website, but if you can guess what it is it goes to the same place.

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