UPDATED SPRING 2009 - I'm the middle child of a family of seven kids. I married in 1970 and my wife and I have raised three fantastic kids, two girls and a boy.
I enjoy fooling around with computers and the Internet as a hobby. I also enjoy reading popular books on physics and mathematics. I enjoy science fiction. I think two of the best movies of recent years are The Matrix and Groundhog Day. I recently finished a biography of Tarski, and I received the Princeton Companion to Mathematics for Christmas.
My chief recreational activity was long distance cycling. I am an eleven year veteran of our local MS150 bike tours, I am a six year veteran of Cycle NC bike tours. During the summer of 2004 I cycled across the USA with the American Lung Association of Washington's Big Ride Across America. I am a past member of Randonneurs USA, and in 2007 I trained for PBP (and sadly blew my knees out).
These days I go to the gym every morning at 5:30am and swim 1,000 yards. My knees are still giving me fits. I am signed up for this year's MS150 and hope to get in enough bike rides so that when the ride comes up in September I can make a go showing.