Who rides a fixie?

[mugendork]

Was bored and was looking through ziptied and stumbled on a fixie bashing/praising thread and though I would start one here. Once upon a time I was a Cat2 road racer and track racer on the San Diego Velodrome. I wont lie, back in high school I used to ride to school on the track bike weaving through traffic like a moron...but that was when I was dumb and fearless. Anyways, fast forward 5 years I am out of the army and trying to quit smoking. I put together my old backup bike for the track and have been commuting to work... Who here rides a fixie? Who rode one before they were the "cool thing" to do?