my name is a shortened version of my usual cyber-space alter ego, dandygaga. it got shortened to dandy here because my email messed up when i first tried to register. i didn't have the patience or desire to contact the mods to get it straightened out, so i just re-registered with this name.
why dandygaga? it's a running joke with one of my oldest friends. she used to work at a coffeeshop back in the late 80s (back before the european coffee mania hit canada), and her work had a contest for this fancy ass cappucino/espresso machine with some crazy italian name that we could never pronounce or remember properly, so we just called it the dandygaga (it was something along those lines....). when i entered cyber-world, i went with it because i wasn't apt to forget the name, and because it wasn't already taken by everyone else.
like most things in my life, it needs a long winded explanation...