| Born: | 17th February 1957, London, Kentucky, USA. Grew up in Morgantown, KY |
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| Places Lived: | Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA; San Jose, CA; Campbell, CA; Bloomington, IL |
| Now Lives In: | Heyworth, Illinois: a small village just south of Bloomington. No liquor sold on Sundays! (what century is this?) |
| Career: | Senior Network Engineer, which means I have no life to speak of :) |
| Likes: | Books, books, books; private aviation; "alternative" people; gloomy fall days; high winds at night; England and the UK; Linux; travelling and road trips; Romance languages; European train travel; well-executed Web sites; Doctor Who; snow-covered winter nights; wireless internet; occult literature |
| Dislikes: | Narrow-minded people; office politics; most over-used fonts; obsolete software; dialing up to the Net; brain-dead right-wing columnists; people living in the past; sugar |
| Despises: | Religious bigotry; discrimination of any type; predatory corporations; referring to a Web site as a "Web" (thanks Microsoft) |
| Authors: | HP Lovecraft; Bill Bryson; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Dion Fortune; John Mortimer; Molly Ivins; Mercedes Lackey; Isaac Asimov; Ayn Rand; Janet & Stewart Farrar; many others |
| Favorite Websites: | Working for Change; The Onion; User Friendly; Slashdot; eBay; The Register |
| Food/drink: | pasta; anything low/non-fat or sugar-free (must watch the sugar!); granola bars; coffee! |
| Preferred Music: | Some rock/new rock, lots of old disco, classic (pre-1970) country, most Celtic, most big-band/cocktail; classical |
| Loathed Music: | Rap; hip-hop; "light" jazz |
| Passions: | Antique and "boatanchor" radios; Route 66; the Internet; and some you'll have to ask me about! |
| Best Friends: | My partner, Tom, and our cats Alasdair, Lammas Myst, and Rónán |
| Places Visited: | England (all over); N. Ireland (Belfast); México (Tíjuana, Ensenada); Spain (Barcelona, Sitges); France (Paris); Denmark (Copenhagen); Canada (Toronto, Montrèal, Ottawa, Calgary, Cochrane); Belgium (Oostende); 28 US states |
| Languages: | English (of course); Spanish (fairly good); some Italian; some French; some Catalán |
| Spirituality: | Non-Christian Alternative (ask me sometime) |