F.O.E.

Yes! I actually manage to have friends! Isn't that amazing? And to think that some of them will actually talk to me after I LART them.

• Mr. Christopher and Dr. Donna Wren are longtime good friends and the most studly pair of nerds I know.
• Michael Patrick Johnson or Mike, as most of us know him. Mike's kinda weird, but then again, so am I by any "normal" definition. So there you go.
• Aaron St.Pierre is my housemate, and took my job at Houghton Mifflin when I left. He's a SysAdmin, too.
• Aubrey Minnis is a longstanding partner in mayhem. Very few people understand her as I do. The reverse can probably be said, too. Aubrey has no life currently; though she graduated from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Art. Actually, she now DOES have a job. And a boyfriend. Though she still doesn't have a clue as to what she really wants. Maybe someday she'll blunder into it.
• Jennifer Bailey who was so recently just "Jen Johnson". A dear friend, Jen's now married to a great guy (Tim Bailey) and lives in Burbank, CA. Tim's an animator for "The Simpsons", and Jen's trying to break in to Hollywood as a producer (Oops, my mistake, Jen!). Right now, she works at NBC doing things I really don't know. Or want to know. TV. Whadda life. I don't see or talk to either of them anywhere near enough. :-(
• Ken Russell is a spastic bundle of pure coding energy. Although why the hell he wrote a OpenGL to Scheme (a LISP dialect) interpreter is beyond the ken (pun intended) of mortal man...
• Flavia Sparacino is a Sicillain woman. 'nuff said.
• Thad Starner is into some really neat wearable computers. He's a good friend, and a real old fossil like me. (Geeze, fossilized at 28...). The Significant Other of the couple is Tavenner Hall, whose a wonderful person, and I'm all too jealous of Thad. She's a Rock person (ie, geologist) and works for the local Smithsonian branch, in addition to running her parent's Bookstore in Tennessee. How she does it, I don't know.
• Sumit Basu (the guy I share my office with... (actually, not anymore))
• Dana Kirsch defies explanation. Tried. Failed. Miserably. Maybe you can succeed.
• Karen Anewalt - one of my C.S. friends from Allegheny College, she's now working on a PhD in C.S at William & Mary.
• Mary Mcleery - another friend from Allegheny, she's just starting her grad work at American University. (I'll get on her about a web page, I promise!) Also, I know her fiance, Vi-Min Choong (who's a math grad student at William and Mary).

My Family! No, I don't have any weird pictures of them (yet...) Maybe someday, but for now:

• My Parents: Reed and Lee are teachers in western Pennsylvannia. In their spare time, they harrass the hell out of me trying to figure out what I'm up to. Way to go, Mom & Dad! <wink> (they only have email, no web right now - I'll get on them about that). My dad is starting to take his ques from me, though, as he is now the Systems person for his school district. What is that old say? Insanity: you inherit it from your kids.

  New! I now have a picture of my parents on their trip to Down Under (Australia, that is). They look so tan, and I haven't seen my Dad in a beard forever. Boy, does he look odd...

• My Brother: Ryan. He just graduated with a B.S. in Biology from Juniata College in central PA. He was going to live with me this year, but he bailed on me and is now camped out in PennState, working at an outdoors store with some friends. He recently got accepted to the Pennsylvania Scool of Optometry, so he's not a total loss. Way to go, Little Bro! He might have email soon, but I'm not holding my breath. His girlfriend, Meredith Treser, goes to Bucknell University
• My last living Grandparent: Ruth White Soderquist Davis. She's going strong, and hops around the world more than I do! Oh, to be retired... ;-) She just moved to New Port Richie from Palm Harbor, FL, both of which are a short distance north of Tampa.

Right now, I'm lacking digitized pictures of everybody. I promise to get around to it before Christmas, though!