 Richard is still proud of his Mailmerge patch
Real Name: Richard
Age: I've been 24 for a great many years
Resides: In real life, Las Vegas. Unfortunately, at the moment I'm in exile in Pennsylvania.
Occupation: Antitrust attorney, columnist, and economics professor
Favourite Website: Why Dochawk.org of course!
Favourite Game Of All Time: Nethack--the only game that *matters*
What Are You Working On Right Now: Printing out labels for the Bordeaux Rouge I'm about to bottle, and contemplating the "Let's here it for Dick and Jane" column that I'm trying to write.
Current Wallpaper/Screensaver: My background is the plain old grey X interleaving, though I have a script that kills the old program and randomly starts something like the turtles wandering about the screen at the moment.
What's So Special About Your Computer: My teenage daguhter took it. I came home one day, and she and my wife had moved a bed from the basement into the room, leaving no room for my big chair at my desk.
How Many Computers Do You Have: Richard has too many to list, but they include a Tandy 102 in his desk, a Mac 128 that his brother is borrowing, a MacPortable disassembled in a paper bag, a Powerbook 180, a 486 Thinkpad, 3 Apple II's, and enough dinosaurs to populate his own museum.
Geekiest Moment: The first that came to mind was the day in graduate school where I started processing the greek letters before realizing it was a sorority sweatshirt and not an equation to solve.
When Did You First Realize You Were A Geek: Uhm, probably when this nomination came :) I never thought of myself as a hacker back then, even though I was a much better programmer than most of the hackers I knew.
If I Was A Program I'd Be: Probably a search engine because I'm an information junkie.
Favourite Quote: Hawkins' Second Law: "There's no lower bound to human intelligence."
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The Truth Behind The Geek (*creative liberties taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Richard, an avid supporter of the ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Emails & Postings, actually finds the Usenet much more interesting than the Web. Richard, who still gets a kick out of hearing "Hey Dochawk!" on campus, has barely adapted to color, but admits that it's useful for syntax highlighting source code and looking at pictures of your friends' kids.
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