Loki was the Norse God of trickery and mischief.

Quasars are enormously bright point-like optical objects, often 
shining with an intensity many hundreds of times that of an entire 
galaxy. It is believed that quasars are powered by gas and the 
remnants of stars spiraling into black holes that have masses of 
millions to billions of times that of our Sun.  It is also believed 
that quasar's may be the bright light in the center of distant 
galaxies. Quasars are the furthest known object from planet Earth 
in our universe.

And as for the "1701" in my email address...well, that means
something too, but I am not going to say what.  Any guesses??