Unquiet Desperation

I’ve been tagged by Thomas Gideon for the Sixteen Random Things meme. And so, we begin:

1. I’ve often said that one day, I will vanish from the Internet save for a super-secret email address where only certain people can find me. This is not a joke. I’m perfectly serious.
2. I went to college for English, specifically Medieval Literature. I swore that you would never get me working in the programming field.
3. My wife and I met at a medievalist campout in western New York.
4. I prefer Cleveland’s winter to Los Angeles’s winter.
5. When I was a kid, my father used to take me to work with him at NASA. One day, I found an interesting program called Demon which I ran. It caused the printer to go heywire. It’s taken me thirty years, but now I know why it went haywire.
6. I’m perpetually behind the times, as far as music go. Generally, I will not find out I like a band until five years after the CD comes out.
7. I used to hoard books, even ones I had not read. I later learned that I was keeping them, not because I’d ever read them, but because I wanted to be the sort of person who kept those books on their bookshelf. I’ve since gotten rid of them.
8. I once programmed using Microsoft’s WebClasses. I am not proud.
9. All I really want is to use my powers for good.
10. Since moving to LA, I’ve lost 20 pounds.
11. I love to cook.
12. My three favorite comic book characters are Batman, John Constantine, and Green Arrow.
13. My current desktop background has pentagrams on it. Read into that whatever you will. The evil machine must be bound.
14. Some days, I truly miss running a coffee shop.
15. I still enjoy playing Zork.
16. My favorite convention of any type is Origins.

Now, I’m supposed to tag sixteen people: Kris Johnson, C.K. Sample, Nicole Gustas, Matthew Wayne Selznick, Evo Terra, Chris Lester, Michelle Belanger, Chris Finke, Ray Slakinski, Mark Jeffrey, David Mead, Jim Wilson, James Kovach, Beth McCabe, Neil Gaiman, and Mur Lafferty.

Tags: New York

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