I'm Stuart Thiel, Chicago ex-lawyer, not
Stuart Thiel, Montreal Web ace.
(No relation. Oddly enough, we both have brothers named David Thiel.
(They're no relation, either.))
(Added June 2005: Apparently there's yet another Stuart Thiel, an architecture student at the University of Florida. We're multiplying!!)
If you're thinking maybe you know me, I'm the guy who:
Was born in Washington DC in 1955;
Grew up in Epping Forest, near Annapolis, Maryland;
Attended, among others, Key School, Rolling Knolls, Bay Country School, Annapolis High (class of '72), and
Anne Arundel Community College;
Was a mediocre Civil Air Patrol cadet;
Served in the U.S. Army, 8th Finance Co., Bad Kreuznach, '73-'76;
Graduated from Cal-Davis, class of '79;
Did graduate work in economics at Duke ('79-'80) and Wisconsin ('81-'86);
Taught economics at Washington State University, '86-'93;
Attended Michigan Law, Summer Starter, '93-'95;
Practiced corporate (tax) law, Chicago, '96-'03;
Taught economics at DePaul University, Chicago, '03-'07;
Eased into semi-retirement, July 2007.
Here are two adventures-at-sea by William Clark Russell. Russell was very popular in the late Victorian era. Conan Doyle, famously, depicted Dr. Watson whiling away a stormy afternoon engrossed in one (alas, neither Doyle nor Watson gave us the title). I copied these for Project Gutenberg a while back, but somehow I could not satisfy them that the books had been published before 1923 (and are therefore in the public domain), even though Russell had died several years earlier.
