I’ve considered myself a resident of the internet community(with more social discourse online than off) for about a decade now. I’ve gone through a few dozen different obsessions in that time, from MMO & FPS games to Wikipedia to politics to technological niches. I’m a commenter on numerous discussion sites with a wide variety of topics under various screen names. I know this series of tubes like the back of my hand. I have lurked, and lurked moar.

So it’s about time I got around to a public life. This will be tempered by my understanding that in all likelihood, privacy as we have known it is doomed and the world + dog will forever have pictures of That Time You Got Drunk And Puked All Over Yourself in the public domain (or near enough that it doesn’t matter). My take on the world, however deluded it seems in another decade, might just survive me. I’m not sure what I hope to gain, but the inherent attraction of archived knowledge will at the very least be joined by my ability to write an article and link to it later, instead of constructing the same argument time and time again.

I’m an engineering student attending Montgomery College in Maryland.

-Squalish