About Me

I am a Macintosh computer consultant by day, ballroom dance student by night, not to mention a New York Yankees fan Toyota Prius driving liberal democrat born in NYC, raised in Long Beach, Long Island, currently living in Jacksonville, Florida, and a huge fan of Humphrey Bogart.

Humphrey Bogart

Bogie has been my favorite actor since I-don't-know-when (and Casablanca has always been my favorite movie), and when I first started learning how to design web sites way back in September, 1995, I was shocked, shocked when numerous search engines fa...

Come Dancing!

In the hit song Come Dancing, Ray Davies of the Kinks sang: Come dancing, Come on sister, have yourself a ball. Don't be afraid to come dancing, It's only natural. How true! Well, at least for me. Ballroom dancing IS only natural! I started taking le...

Gecko Central

It was July of 2006. I was driving to or from visiting my parents in Maryland, a 750-mile trip. For some reason, the phrase "a reptile dysfunction" just popped into my head. (What, that kind of thing doesn't happen to you, too?) Before long...

The Left is Right!

I personally blame Mike Dukakis for it. I don't recall "liberal" being a dirty word until Ronald Raygun turned it into one during his 1984 reelection campaign, and then George HW Bush used it as his focal point of his campaign in 1988 again...

Prius Pride

Yes, I'm a liberal Democrat, pro-environmentalist, but I have to confess that I bought my Prius strictly for the fuel consumption or lack thereof.  I drive upwards of 25,000 miles a year, and the thought of getting 40 to 50 MPG was just too good...