Had I been born of a persecuted Czech physicist and a tightrope walker, my family might have fled the country, smuggling me out in a lion stand. When my father then accepted an honorary professorship at Stanford, I could have toured the country with him on his lecture circuit, and spent a few seasons with my mother in the circus. Thus, I could have learned the twin arts of particle physics and equilibrism, inevitably leading to related discoveries observing quantum particles from a variable position.
As fate would have it, I was instead born to a municipal budget analyst and a United flight attendant. My parents were preoccupied worrying my younger sister might die of leukemia, so I spent most of my early childhood in benign neglect. When my father bought me a new IBM PC in the 1980s, adventure games became my escape. My dream was to work for my favorite game designers, Infocom, when I grew up.
Today, I’m a fameless programmer and Web designer. I live in the eastern United States with my cat. My copious free time is spent obsessing over my various projects, like editing many categories at the Open Directory Project. I used to avidly enter sweepstakes on the Internet, from which I won some nice prizes.
| Hair: | Curly |
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| Eyes: | 2 |
| Race: | Human |
| Interests: | interactive fiction planned languages Web standards anime and manga game theory mythology |
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| Soft drink: | Root beer, iced tea |
| Weather: | windy days, stormy weather |
| Books: | Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams |
| Comics: | Strangers in Paradise Bone Zot! Sandman |
| Video Games: | Dance Dance Revolution Grim Fandango Riven Planetfall |
| TV shows: | Law & Order Babylon 5 Serial Experiments Lain |
| Movies: | Casablanca (1942) Brazil (1985) The Princess Bride (1987) Mononoke Hime (1997) |