Rich's Personal Page

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Stuff you probably didn't want to know anyway

Me:

Born: October 14, 1958, in Russellville, Arkansas; a state that was apparently rather strange at the time, so my parents had the good taste to move elsewhere; including Denver and L.A. But Phoenix is about the earliest I remember.

Lived in: Arkansas, Colorado, California, Arizona, Germany (near Bonn), Japan, and Maryland.

Hobbies:

• computers - anything but the hardware
• ice skating - nothing fancy, just for the heck of it
• flying - ok, haven't done that in a few years...
• reading - sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, military novels, courtroom drama, general fiction, occasionally history, computer manuals, etc.  Some favorites include Hunt for Red October, anything by Asimov, EE "Doc" Smith, David R. Palmer (when will he start writing again?), Cordwainer Smith, LOTR (read them first time in a weekend when I was maybe 11; didn't eat or sleep much that weekend), the Harry Potter books, Diane Duane's Star Trek books and Young Wizards series, some of Grisham's, Ludlum's, Koontz's stuff, most of C.S. Lewis's and Andrew Greeley's fiction, and so on.  Waiting for: next HP book, next Thomas Covenant book, Palmer to get it together and finish the "To Halt Armageddon" series, and so on.

Favorite music: almost anything that's not severely rude and isn't rap: light rock, ballads, folk, Irish music, German music, some country, just a tiny bit of jazz and classical once in a long while.

Other stuff: ...may take awhile. Suggestions welcome...

Links:

• Visit Metheglin Press for reprints of rare and significant historical texts.