Age: 46 and counting.
Height: 167 cm.
Mass: 63 kg.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown tending towards gray.
Marital Status: Partnered. Scroll down the page for a pic of my guy!
Handedness: Mixed (not ambidextrous). I bat left-handed but I can only throw and catch right-handed, which probably explains why I was never seriously considered by the major league baseball talent scouts.
Vocal range: Baritone, but I can sing tenor and bass at gunpoint, and frequently do. (They also point the gun in my direction when they want me to stop).
Music preferences: Medieval and Renaissance polyphonic, a capella, Celtic Revival, classic Heart, and anything else that strikes my fancy. It's gotta have harmony!
Shoe size: 7.5 D
Favorite color: Red.
Favorite beer: Ommegang (but Samuel Adams, Dos Equis or Pete's Wicked Ale are acceptable substitutes)
Favorite quote: "I don't understand any of this!" - (Miss Piggy).
Favorite TV show: Futurama.
Preferred keyboard layout: Dvorak. It's faster and easier than QWERTY. You should try it.
Pets: I'm a cat person.
Languages: English, Esperanto and French, in order of decreasing competence, but I've been known to take a stab at anything from Mandarin Chinese to Pali. Learning how to read Russian at the moment (Yeesh! Those Russkies have a different word for everything!).
Sense of humor: Ranges from dry to deranged, but if you've made it this far, you already know that.
Born, raised, educated and living in upstate New York. I have a bachelor's degree in biology, worked as a lab tech for about a decade and a half, and then decided to try my hand at the exciting, fast-paced world of commercial software development.
It's a very interconnected world these days. Although most of you have never met me, I've probably touched your life indirectly through my work as a biologist and software engineer. There's a very good chance that some subroutine in your software library was written by yours truly- hopefully not in any of the applications that you swear at regularly! And if you're an American and you've ever brushed your teeth with one of the Big Name toothpastes- well, there's an awful lot of R&D that goes into them, and I've done my share of it. But probably none of you have ever benefitted from my genetically engineered yeast (they glow green under UV light- a common parlor trick in cell and molecular biology labs these days). And the experiment where I had to brush rat teeth- 72 rats- twice a day- for five weeks- never yielded a marketable product.
(Ain't he a handsome bear, folks?)