Has physics and chemistry BA, computer hobbyist, likes Linux, GCC, Mozilla products, Gnome 2 (not Gnome 3) and other software that empowers rather than hogs your system, mainframes, Stallman and his philosophy, GNU Chess 3 and 4, Xboard, Windows Arena chess gui, macroeconomics, US Democratic Party, Norwegian Labor Party, NASA and International Space Station, Neil Armstrong, recycling, energy conservation, vintage computing, vintage radio, archeology, human prehistory, Robert Heinlein, Arthur Clarke, Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Abe Lincoln, FDR, Truman, Langston Hughes, Pope Francis, Benito Juarez, Norbert Weiner, John Von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, Nasir Ahmed (inventor of jpg format), Ty Cobb (career batting average = .367), Babe Ruth, Ted Williams (last major-league .400 hitter), and the many other voices of freedom, science and excellence. Oh, and vanilla ice cream!