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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.

Key Facts About Yours Truly, Johnny Dolla—

what? FINE. Whatever.

Key Facts About Yours Truly, Julen.

I am one of the organizers of secret quonsar, a gen-u-wine MeFi Tradition where in people send and receive gifts. Look for an organizing MeTa in October, and a Signups Are Open! MeTa in early November.

Did you miss the last secret quonsar signups? You can always sign up for the secret quonsar notification list! Once a year, you'll get an email telling you that signups are live.

You can also find me on Ravelry.

If you friend me on Facebook, let me know you are a Mefite so I add you back; with no context, I'm forced to assume you are a random dude who is just there to hit on me and call me names when I show no interest in digital or actual hanky-panky with said random dude. If you tell me you are a MeFite, I’ll assume you are there for critter cam pictures and to suggest good books to me.

I used to have an offer up here to work with folks who wanted to find a better word than “mansplain” (instead of gumming up threads complaining about the term). It’s been more than a year and only one person ever contacted me about it, and we couldn’t come to a good agreement.

I like pie - unless the pie variety begins with a P, in which case… Nope. Pumpkin? Nope. Pecan? Nope. Peanut Butter? That’s a double nope with a side of shudder.

I use favorites as bookmarks, but I am sorely tempted - every time - to favorite any reference people make to the late great Newsradio.

        Bill?
        Yes, Dave?
        I stole your cane.

I have been reading Metafilter since 1999. A lot of stuff has happened. To wit:
Number of times I've sworn off the grey: 13
Number of times I've sworn off the blue: 15
Number of times I've sworn: Too embarrassing to reveal.
Number of times I've used the word I on Metafilter: 2,093 (as of August 2012)
Number of times I've caught my cat trying to post to Metafilter: 1
Number of times I've knitted through a metatalk thread so I won't comment: 88
Number of comments I've deleted before posting in the one week: 33
Number of times I've actually shaken my fist at the screen: 3
Number of conspiracy theories I'll never share with you people: 4
Number of items on my To Do List that I am ignoring to make this list: 3
Number of times things I've created elsewhere have been cited on the Blue: 3
Number of times things I've created elsewhere have been cited on the Green: 1
Number of times things I've created elsewhere have been cited in other folks' profiles: 2
Number of comments I've made that I've later regretted: 11
Number of bad post ideas I've had: 231
Number of MeFi Music tracks in my Songs I Love playlist: 9
Number of active MeFites that I've given up on: 0
Number of Metafilter shirts spotted in the wild: 2
Number of MeFites I know in real life: 11
Number of MeFites I should know in real life, yet do not: 3
Number of secret quonsar swaps I've organized: A few. I'd have to look it up.
Number of cats: 3