David Empey

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Gender Male
Industry Technology
Occupation Computer programmer
Location Santa Cruz, California, United States
Introduction I'm a middle-aged SF fan, nerd manque, not especially successful computer programmer (but I do good work), occasional piano player, skeptic, agnostic (maybe), Toastmaster, mathematician manque, amateur writer, and occasional singer. For a guy with no social life I'm pretty busy.
Interests geekery of many kinds, science fiction, fantasy, role-playing games, space travel, public speaking, math, history, board games
Favorite Movies Star Wars (not 'A New Hope'-- not 'Episode IV'-- Star Wars), Back to the Future, Time Bandits, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Primer, Star Trek (reboot), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Galaxy Quest, Incredibles, Monsters Inc, The Mummy
Favorite Music Seventy-six Trombones, War March of the Priests, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Bohemian Rhapsody, Little Fugue in G Minor, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, 1712 Overture, 1812 Overture, Tainted Love
Favorite Books Lensman, LotR, The Anubis Gates, anything else by Tim Powers, anything by Jack Vance, The Face in the Frost, A Princess of Mars, Tarzan of the Apes, The Hound of the Baskervilles

What's the best time you've ever had licking stamps?

Um, never?