Err, I read through about seven of these things and I still don't know what to write, so I'll just start off easy:

Hi. I'm Robin, a male, and exactly the sort of person who is interested in the cognitive distinction between "I'm Robin" and "My name is Robin" (but not interested enough to actually research it). As you may have guessed, I consider Douglas Hofstadter to be a genius. I even know how to spell his name. I also have no consistency of biography: my Livejournal (three guesses on my username!), my Facebook (look under "Zimmermann", two n's), my Yahoo (in this case, umpelty), my various web forum identities (usually peri_renna) ... I just write something about myself when I'm supposed to. I like to imagine this is an effective method, but there's no actual evidence of this. And I'm all about the evidence. Also all about the pipe links.

Not-particularly-distinguishing characteristics:

• Science fiction fan from about as "way back" as you can get when you were born in 1985.
• Born in 1985 (after the Mac, but before the Mac Plus - first computer I was allowed to play with was the latter).
• Web addict, not yet recovering.
• Procrastinator of the first water.
• Does use <em> tags correctly, thank you very much.
• Occasionally drops &ndash;es into prose.

See, I told you they weren't very distinguishing.

Oh, and the quote is from Robert Charles Wilson's Spin.