BORING MINUTIAE ABOUT ME (well, at least it's true)
Age: 40ish
Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee
Other places lived: Kentucky, Florida, Utah, New Hampshire, Texas
Computer Science degrees from: University of Utah (B.S.), Boston University (M.S.)
Married to: Sherry on 5/21/1999
Father of: Charlie on 10/2/2001
Height: 5' 10" or 5' 11", depending on the weather
Weight: working my way up to 160 lbs. -- almost there!
Number of Internet mailing lists created: 2 (fan groups for Nanci Griffith and Dar Williams)
Number of Internet mailing lists currently managing: 0 (real life is better)
Musical instruments played (none very well): piano, trombone, guitar, drums
Kind of car owned: Ford Cobra
Favorite musical artists: Nanci Griffith, Richard Buckner, Robbie Fulks, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Neil Young, Kate Campbell, Dixie Chicks, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Iris DeMent, Connie Dover, Lucinda Williams, Dar Williams, Kasey Chambers, Kelly Willis, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Greg Brown, Elvis Costello, The Clash, XTC, Talking Heads, R.E.M., Pixies, Camper Van Beethoven, Nirvana, Lyle Lovett, Dwight Yoakam, Patty Loveless, Uncle Tupelo, and the classic works by J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, and Gustav Mahler. Oh, and I also enjoy some jazz: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Nat King Cole. And of course, I still give the occasional listen to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, and Led Zeppelin. IS THIS LIST LONG ENOUGH YET??
Other hobbies (besides music): riding bikes, driving and tinkering on cars, keeping healthy & fit, seeing good offbeat films and plays, watching a good basketball game, doing water & snow sports, and laughing at dry satirical humor from the likes of Bill "Zippy" Griffith, Scott "Dilbert" Adams, Dave Barry, and yes, Monty Python.
Score on that wacky Breyers-Miggs (whatever) personality test: ISTP (FWIW).
A few movies I like: Ordinary People, Pulp Fiction, Breaker Morant, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Raising Arizona and (naturally) 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Places I like: Austin, TX; Cape Cod, MA; Newport, RI; San Francisco, CA; Park City, UT; Boulder, CO; London, England; Paris, France; Venice, Italy; Florence, Italy; Lucerne, Switzerland; St. Paul de Vence, France.
What I want to be when I grow up: NO IDEA!