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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.

'peacay' as in P.K. (you know, the initials of my name)
or
'peacay' as in Pea Cay, a little bit of paradise in a sea of chaos.

One of these things may not be true.

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Below are the posts I've saved as favourites because for one reason or another they moved or inspired or amazed me and I'd rather not forget them. You might find them interesting too -


--Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print Database

--Digital Research Tools PayDiRT

--Alone and ashamed with fistulas

--Introducing Heinrich Kley

--The Prague Bible

--The invention of the Hindu

--Going forward with the "true eye of a lynx" to study the very anatomy of nature

--The Principles of the Weighty Tome

--John James Audubon: The Birds of America

--Alice in Civil War Land

--Are they music?

--Is this poetry?

--Intricate silhouettes

--The most kissed girl in the world

--The Russian Avant-Garde Book

--Art & Life in Africa

--Greek Temple Architecture and Linkeriffica of Antiquity

--Highway 61 Relived

--Things found in books

--A rose red city half as old as time (Petra)

--Look! It's the Sea-Unicorn, and a big one, too

--Get it while it's hot!

--Vintage androids

--Auf Der Walz

--A London Provisioner's Chronicle, 1550-1563

--Renaissance bling

--Nastaliq Past and Present

--In Which It Is Shown That All Human Things Are But A Dream

--Emblem Books

--Alhumdulillah