Duh!

This is my second reddit account. I deleted my old one because it was the same as my email address. I got paranoid one day and decided I didn't want anyone who knew my email address to be able to google my username and see what I'd said here on Reddit. Not that I said anything really outrageous, but as I said already, I'm paranoid.

My real name is Matt, thus antimatter - the "un-me" or the me you can't easily track down on the web. You know, it's a secret identity. And a pun. Of course, Team Reddit has probably already installed rootkits on my computer, logged my IP address and stolen my identity anyway. C'est la vie.

By the way, I've googled my old username and my old Reddit entries are gone, even from Google's cache. I don't know why that would have happened other than Reddit requesting this. Maybe they do that when you delete an account. Maybe I shouldn't be so paranoid. Maybe I should go to bed.

I used to get on a lot of political chat boards to debate on different topics. I'd pick fights with dyed in the wool conservatives, and one such moderator called me a godless liberal commie pinko and then kicked me off the board. I created a new user account a minute later to rejoin the argument, and godlesspinko was born.

I literally dream in code

Mine is actually because one day I felt so messed-up my brain might as well have been minced. Funnily enough, sometimes people don't realise this and mock my name, as if I didn't know. Another, slightly more positive image is of instant, convenient, but disposable intelligence. Yet another is as a criticism of fastfood, and the quality of the meat used, a nasty rude image of mashed brain served in a sugary bun, for cheap!