The picture shows me at the Articial Intelligence Lab/Computer Sciences Lab at MIT, where I worked for the Free Software Foundation from 1991-3. In the winter of 1993, I volunteered to be one of the six deputy commissioners [trans: the six gopher/workers] who organized the Winter Olympics for the January break between semesters. At the Awards Night party, I wandered, enjoying myself and looking for any glitches. The fortune teller couldn't get a table, and her husband, the animal-balloon inflator/creator was very unhappy; I found them a suitable piece of furniture, and in gratitude he spent five minutes making me a "Buck Rogers jetpack, raygun, and alien helmet". This later created an interesting problem in geometry constraints in the men's room... :)

I was born in 1947 and raised at the bottom of a gravity well, and am still trying to leave it. I've lived in the Boston area, North America, for the last three decades.

NASA false-color space radar image of Greater Boston area

I am a member of Sentient Lifeforms Against Entropy. (SLAE, pronounced "slay", which is the universe's eventual response to each member of this organization.) Or, as sf writer Hal Clement phrases it, "the universe is trying to kill me - and someday it'll succeed!" Fight against increasing disordexwkqtyv@#*%^....... [no carrier wave]

I've worked for Million Year Picnic, New England's first comic specialty store for three years from 1974-77, then ran the Science Fantasy Bookstore in Harvard Square from 1977 until I closed it in 1989. I've also worked for the Free Software Foundation for two years as an administrative assistant. The FSF works on GNU legally free software.

Currently working parttime for PANDEMONIUM Books and Games, Harvard Square's science fiction bookstore.

Ambition: to build a retirement home on Luna after helping to build the space transportation infrastructure to get there. And the X-33/VentureStar program from Lockheed Martin is the first real chance for tourists to watch private infrastructure get built in space...