He had originally acquired some modicum of fame on the net for
InsertionDogs.com, a website that purported to sell tiny dogs
specially bred and trained for anal and vaginal insertion. This won
him a threat of legal action from the ASPCA, outraged e-mails from
more Connecticut grandmothers than he had ever imagined even had net
access, two remarkably inept DDoS attacks from a group of Scandinavian
straightedge vegan hax0rs, and the September 2000 "Mahir" award from
Buzzed Magazine. Not a bad yield, all told, for two afternoons
snapping photos of the smallest lapdogs he could find in the local
park, and another afternoon scanning them in and making up stats for
them, including name, age and maximum circumference.