Thomas Otter tagged me and James Farrar says blogging enables the exhibitionist in us. So its with that in mind that I present a few things that you may or may not (and probably wish) you didn't know about me.
- I love to cook, although, I'm not very good at it. I think I've made one meal that I am particularly proud of (talked about it here). I put too much or too little seasoning in every thing I make. My wife makes me think I'm a good cook because she ALWAYS eats my cooking, g-d bless her.
- When I was 16 I worked for my father who was an Orthodontist. I worked in the lab making appliances and bite plates. It was there that I learned that I never wanted to spend my life putting my hands in other people's mouths.
- My first love was Neuroscience. I was in graduate school, doing my PhD in psychobiology (appetitive behavior and animal models of diabetes) when someone dropped an IBM PC clone on my desk. I went from spending 7 days a week to 5 days a week to three, to out and getting a job. Heck, I was tired of eating macaroni and cheese! The rest is history. So much for first loves.
- Speaking of first loves. I won't name names but last I heard she was an Alpaca farmer in New Jersey!
- I am a SciFi Fanatic - Novels, novellas, short stories, TV shows, movies, I consume it all in mass quantities -another charming quality which usually elicits a "why can't we ever watch anything normal" from my wife! And yes, I have a Trekkie heritage.
- The only major surgery I've had was an appendectomy. The interesting thing was, it was on a business trip. Was living in Chicago at the time and had to go to corporate headquarters on Cape Cod. It meant having my appendix out at 2AM by the on-call surgeon at the Cape Cod Hospital! The Mayo Clinic it wasn't.
- I never thought I'd have one child driving and three others in diapers simultaneously.
- Ken Stein, the William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies @ Emory University, is credited by me with teaching me to think! Before Ken, I was unable to synthesize broad amounts of information on develop an original thought! Thanx Ken.
Ok, well thats enough of my innards exposed. Tagging - Mark Crofton, Craig Cmehil and Miki Saxon, whom I've just had the pleasure of meeting.
