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Joined: May 4, 2009

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 have a bottle of selenized boiling chips, as in boiling chips coated in selenium. For some reason the word just stuck with me.