Work - system administrator for a Western university. Used to be in the biotech biz, the intel biz before that.

Hobbies - shooting, brewing beer, reading history, trashy science fiction, and trashier deteckatiff novels.

Politics - libertarian/constitutional conservative.

Military - U.S. Navy, 1970-80.

I strongly believe in gun control, and practice often to be able to control mine as best I can.

Worked for years in Asia and then in Seattle, both of which places I still love. But it's time in my life to get to what's real, and for me that's rural Idaho. "Ain't missin' a thing; watchin' the full moon crossin' the range..."

For my liberal friends:

"...impatient reformers, thinking it easier and shorter to get possession of the government than the intellects and dispositions of the public, are in a constant temptation to stretch the province of the government beyone due bounds."
J.S. Mill, "Principles of Political Economy"