I'm a geek that loves to figure things out and make people laugh. I'm honest to a fault, joke around way too much, and generally make a fool of myself as often as possible.

I've changed a lot over the past few years. I used to be a typical anti-social geek, sitting at home playing video games. Now, I'm still a geek, but I'm a lot more social. I tend to be the "organizer" among my friends, always the one asking if folks want to do stuff. I set the times, the dates, and then we all go out and succeed brilliantly at whatever we were trying to do. At least, that's what I tell myself.

I just got my basic SCUBA license. I had never really thought about getting it until I had the opportunity, and I definitely don't regret it. It was a lot of fun, and I hope to find a dive partner somewhere and head over to the various lakes around here. Scuba diving is a lot of fun, especially if you have a good teacher.

I also got a telescope a few months back and I've been loving it. I can see the rings of Saturn clearly, gas bands on Jupiter, craters/mountain ranges on the moon... and I just tracked the International Space Station a few nights ago as it went overhead! I could even see the solar panels. It was amazing.

I suppose this isn't a very good self-summary, but, well... Eleanor Roosevelt said that "trying to define yourself was like trying to bite your own teeth". She's a lot smarter than I am, so I think I'll take that advice to heart and shut up now!

Programming spaceships during the day, masked crusader for justice at night.

I've had a few people ask if the first part is true. Turns out, it is; I have my dream job, working on the flight software for the Orion spacecraft, the upcoming (hopefully) replacement for the Space Shuttle. The second part is true only if you include my deranged schizophrenia in your definition of "true".

Crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

My height, probably - I'm 6'2". I've also been told I have an infectious laugh.

a) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons, John Adams by David McCullough, Rubicon by Tom Holland, Riding Rockets by Mike Mullane, Skunk Works by Ben Rich, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Cicero by Anthony Everitt, Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian, War as I Knew It by George Patton, Stalingrad by Antony Beevor, On Duty by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.

I read a lot. Most people pick good stocks for investments, but my Barnes & Noble membership card is my best purchase ever...

b) Serenity, Demolition Man, Much Ado About Nothing, Top Gun

c) Anything by Nightwish, Within Temptation, Therion, Sonata Arctica, Kamelot, and a lot of classical stuff too. Nightwish's new album is great.

d) Stuff that can be microwaved :-) Like Chinese food, for example. Other than that, I'm not picky.

e) All hail the Hypno-Toad. Also, Arrested Development. And Firefly, Rome, SG-1, Atlantis, Deadwood, Farscape, Babylon 5... the list goes on and on. DVD sets are great.

Irony, snark, sarcasm, slapstick, satire and spoof. (#7: Alliteration)

Politics, history, programming, space, the future in general, my future in particular.

Doing the time warp, again.

(No, I'm not literally at Rocky Horror showings every Friday night. While I'm a fan of the show and like going to it every once in a while, I'm not one of those.)

I'm never sarcastic. Ever.

You want the antidote.