First Essential Russ Fact: Yes women of America, you read correctly: I'm married - and happily so. I can almost hear the cries of anguish going up from desktops all over the country (or maybe those are sighs of relief... it's hard to tell with my neighbor running his lawnmower).

Second Essential Russ Fact: I live in Baltimore, MD. Baltimore's a spiffy town. If you've never been, I'd suggest hopping on a bus, plane, boat, llama, whatever and coming on over to check it out. Baltimore is not, however, where I want to spend the rest of my life. I spent many of my formative years in Phoenix, AZ, and that's where I intend to get back to one day. In the meantime, like I said, Baltimore's a spiffy town.

Third Essential Russ Fact: My profession is technical writing. What's technical writing, you ask? Well, you know all that really interesting writing? Technical writing ain't that stuff. It's the boring things, like application guides, how-to manuals, pre-purchase product evaluations, things like that. Personally, I'd love to be doing stuff that was more, well, creative, but c'mon... somebody pays me (and well, I might add) to sit on my butt and write. There are much worse fates...

Fifth Essential Russ Fact: I'm 29 years old, and I still read comic books. Spider-Man comic books. I'm telling you this now so you know not to take me too terribly seriously...