Sex: I'm in favor of it

Marital Status: Happily married for over 17 years now. By popular request, I've included a recent (and rare) family photo on the right (taken 1/02). I'm the goofy lookin' dude in back.

Best Tabloid Moment: I knew I was going to marry my wife right after the first date.

Kids: 2 daughters

Height: It used to be 6' 0", now I've shrunk a quarter inch.

Weight: 185 lbs

Blood type: A+

Life expectancy: I'm now 41, and my two grandfathers are still alive. And I was even the Best Man at the 2nd wedding of one of them. So I got *that* goin' for me, which is nice.

Defects: Anosmia, Insomnia, (ex) Melanoma, MS

Web Site: Printed out, it is currently (1/6/03) 277 pages long!

Age: About 1,300,000,000 seconds

Fastest mile time: 4:53, 15 years and 25 pounds ago!

# of U.S. states visited: 37

US states I haven't been to: Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Rhode Island, North Dakota, S. Carolina, Delaware, W. Virginia

Mountains climbed: About 70

U.S. Patents: 14

Erdös Number: 2

Meyers/Briggs: ENTP

Hobbies: Yes. Poke around my page for a bit, you'll find them. I have far too many, and they change every year or two.

Highest left-handed bowling game: 212

Highest right-handed bowling game: 300. During open bowling, in a deserted bowling alley. Now who's gonna believe that?!

Telescopes built: 3 so far

Strangest item my wife sold on EBay: A Tumbleweed

Highest # of catches juggling 5 balls: 51. I am so close to being able to run 5, but then, I've been at this plateau since '92. Maybe practice would help.

Northermost latitude: 55N (Copenhagen, Dennmark), In an plane: over 65N (Greenland)

Southernmust latitude: 18.5 N (Jamaica)

Westernmost longitude: 123W (Eureka, California)

Easternmost longitude: 13E (Fessel, Germany) (I need to check this - Copenhagen might be east of Fessel...)