Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Writer/Tagsulat
Location	San Jose, California, Makati, Metro Manila
Introduction	Roger Strukhoff received a BA with honors from Knox College, Certificate in Technical Communication from UC-Berkeley, and MBA from CSU-East Bay. His work recently won a "Stevie" American Business Award as best publication in its category. He's served as a guest lecturer at MIT. His volunteer work in international affairs merited a Letter of Commendation from the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, but can also be found at twitter.com/strukhoff
Interests	Baseball, college football, boxing, politics, technology and innovation, eGovernment, Theravada Buddhism, Sufism, Methodism
Favorite movies	Chinatown, Natural-Born Killers, Apocalypse Now, Batman with Heath Ledger, Pulp Fiction of course, Five Easy Pieces, Wizard of Oz, I dunno many others
Favorite music	Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms symphonies, most 20th-century things, The Who, John Prine, Steve Goodman, Little Feat when Lowell was still alive
Favorite books	This list would put people to sleep. I encourage everyone to read The Miracle of Castel di Sangro, A Soldier of the Great War, and anything by Don Winslow though.

The wicked backspin caught you off guard. How will you play it off without losing your footing?

Unless this is a baseball question, I won't. If it can be a baseball question, the answer is I'm never caught off-guard down there at first base.