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In the real world, I'm a 30-year-old former software developer-turned-student living in Long Island, New York in the United States. I'm attending Stony Brook University, where I am working toward my PhD in biochemistry and cell biology.

How I came to be a student at my age is not an uncommon story: having entirely burned out from the rigors of the software development field, I was (after some reflection) quite pleased to be laid off. Almost immediately I decided, with the support of my lovely wife Jennifer, to return to Stony Brook University.

Finally, by sheer cosmic coincidence, I happen to share a birthday with the Illustrious Jimbo Wales, but so does Garrison Keillor, David Duchovny, and the Purple Heart.

During my attendance here, I have been doing my best to make Wikipedia a better (and better informed) place. I am an administrator, and a staunch advocate for boldness in recognizing the hard work of others and of WikiLove in general.

Finally, when I'm here, I'm fiercely apolitical. I believe that truth and honesty – whether we like it or not – are far more useful than ideology.

If you wish to contact me, feel free to make a note on my talk page.

My general tendency is to edit a relatively small number of articles, making large and often exhaustively researched edits. My first major project started when I noticed that the article for sarin was short and ugly, which got me deeply entrenched in rewriting nearly all articles relating in any way with chemical warfare, and which resulted in my first featured article.

I recently joined the start-up WikiProject Beer, and it shows signs of becoming my next additions.

Below are articles that I contributed more than a modest amount of editing to. 
 * Anglo-Zanzibar War
 * Anticholinesterase
 * Asian giant hornet
 * Bass (beer)
 * Beer
 * Blister agent
 * Blood agent
 * Bottom-fermenting yeast
 * Blue Point Brewing Company
 * Brazilian wandering spider
 * Brewery
 * Brook Ellison
 * Brooklyn Brewery
 * Caffeine
 * Camp Upton
 * Cell (biology)
 * Chemical warfare [[Image:LinkFA-star.png|width=14px|height=14px]]
 * Cunninghamia
 * Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
 * Cyanogen chloride
 * Cyclosarin
 * De vulgari eloquentia
 * Defoliant
 * Dinosaur [[Image:LinkFA-star.png|width=14px|height=14px]]
 * Dire wolf
 * Dogfish Head Brewery
 * Endosymbiotic theory
 * Flying dog brewery
 * Fruit / vegetable beer
 * Gene doping
 * Genetic code
 * Gerhard Schrader
 * Harpoon Brewery
 * Hydrogen cyanide
 * Incapacitating agent
 * Iran-Iraq War
 * Jon Stewart
 * Kim Peek
 * KOLOKOL-1
 * Leto Regio
 * Lewisite
 * List of chemical weapon agents
 * Long Trail Brewing Company
 * Magic hat
 * Malathion
 * Mitochondrion
 * Moosehead
 * Mutant
 * Neapolitan Mastiff
 * Nettle agent
 * Nerve agent
 * Neutral Milk Hotel
 * Non-event
 * Paul Lauterbur
 * Pepper spray
 * Photosynthesis
 * Pimp
 * Plum Island, New York
 * Printer's devil
 * Pulmonary agent
 * Primordial sandwich
 * Pyramid Breweries, Inc.
 * Randi Rhodes
 * Riot control agent
 * Roma (people)
 * Saber-toothed cat
 * Sarin
 * Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
 * Sinclair Broadcast Group
 * Smilodon
 * SNARE (protein)
 * Soman
 * Spinal cord injury
 * Stevens Point Brewery
 * Stink bomb
 * Stony Brook University
 * Sulfur mustard
 * Tabun
 * Tantulocarida
 * Texas Medication Algorithm Project
 * Top-fermenting yeast
 * Toxin
 * Trivia
 * Trivial
 * Upton, New York
 * U.S. Electoral College [[Image:LinkFA-star.png|width=14px|height=14px]]
 * VE (nerve agent)
 * Venom
 * Verdigris
 * Victor Grignard
 * VG (nerve agent)
 * VM (nerve agent)
 * VX (nerve agent)
 * Who me?
 * Yaphank, New York
 * Zanzithophone