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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.


Well, I have gut issues right now. Bloatedness and general wind are the order of the day. Sorry.

Near the end of a physics degree, about six or seven years ago, I got freaked out by the idea that i wasn't doing the art course that I should have been, and that I'd be stuck in some dry industry with no appreciation of the aesthetic or odd.

Then I saw the web, saw that it was both technical and arty and thought "thank Christ for that, I can make a living and have fun". And now I am.