Chrissy Amodeo
"I'm not as innocent as I look."
My fiancée, my lover, my best friend, confidant, my caring companion...

Rob Bittner
"I'm just your average heavy metal/classical fan."
My swimmer-and-computer-crazy cousin from Detroit works for the city of Troy, Michigan as a computer geek... wanna send e-mail to his pager?

Janet Brody
"I made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of G-d as I understand Him."
My Auntie Jan is a trained therapist. She wants to be free from employment so she can join the vacation of the month club; her JOB (just over broke) interferes with her life. The most important thing she has learned is to make a decision and do it; there is no such thing as trying.

Marla Brody
"Don't judge a book by it's cover, 'cause it might be the best book you will ever read."
"The height of insanity is doing the same thing over and over... and expecting different results."
My cousin from Detroit is a vibrant, bullheaded, determined lover-not-a-fighter who knows what she wants. As a Senior Loan Executive for Summit Mortgage Services, she wants professional, personal and spiritual success. (Don't we all?) She is single and looking to fufill her life with a loving marriage and children. She loves her bulldog named Bailey, she'll try anything once (as long as it is not illegal), she has a lead foot (which will be a problem when she gets a yellow convertible Corvette), and she has a great sense of humor and loves to laugh.

Michael de la Pena
"Epic Burritos!"
A video game junkie with a computer science degree and a musician's heart... he loves electronic music. Just don't ask him how to dial a special 1-800 number to get all your long distance for free. "It's your birthday... how do you do? A happy birthday, from me to you, from your friend Ralph!"

Marty Gold
"FloridaFloridaFloridaFloridaFLORidaFLORidaFLORIDAFLORIDAGEORGIA! Woo-hoo!"
Marty, a double major in music performance and music theory, is a remarkably kind, accomodating, and thought-provoking clarinet addict. As a member of Kappa Kappa Psi at the University of Florida, he will do even more traveling (for football road games) than he's already done. The words ROAD TRIP! are nothing new to him.

Dori Goldman
"Life... what a great adventure!"
My eccentric mother. After too many years in religious administration, she's now in charge of restoring the historic Seminole Theatre in Homestead, Florida.

Dan Harold
"Your heart is free... have the courage to follow it."
We're friends primarily because his dad and my dad are such good friends. He's a student at the University of Michigan Law School, and both of us love Wolverine Football. Go Blue!

Ted Hitchcock
"Say something, Ted!"
Ted's been a lifelong friend of my fiancée Chrissy, and has a laser-sharp wit and twisted sense of humor on permanent loan from a source that he is not allowed to reveal. He is gainfully employed at CamSys doing computer measuring systems. (Really complicated thingies that confuse me.)

Victor "Tory" Konstant
"Sin is in, and so we begin..."
Defender of the faith, servant of the almighty, purveyor of all things holy, alleged pedophile (never convicted -- yet). Also answers to "Lollipop." That and he keeps kosher too!

Aaron Lauber
"Say something, Aaron!"
Everyone's favorite firefighter. Aaron really got to be a fireman when he grew up... if he grew up. He's a lifelong resident of the Albany area, is in constant search of a woman, and can play the minute waltz in forty seconds. No!

Adam Marcus
"What's that joke about men never remembering anything?"
The only technical writer I know who loves Less Than Jake. (Then again, I don't know many technical writers in the first place...)

Ben Ostrowsky
"Nathan Hale said it best when he said, 'I regret that I have only one * for my country.'"
He's been an English major, a math major, a published and paid author of smut, and my former roommate at the University of Florida, where he received a bachelor's degree in linguistics before getting a master's degree in library science from the University of South Florida. He is a vegetarian, a geek, a bibliophile, an employee of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium, a pacifist, and an ordained minister. He aspires to be a librarian, a bastard operator from hell, a chef, and a 900-year-old cyborg.

Rob Quianthy
"A peaceful existance relies upon practiced generosity, gratitude, and compassion."
I had the pleasure of being the first UF student that Rob met. (Of course, it went all downhill for both of us from there.) We are fans of "Weird" Al Yankovic (who he got to interview as a radio disc jockey at Georgia Tech!), Tom Lehrer, and They Might Be Giants. Rob has recently lost his free will and will do anything possible to support his growing Anime habit. Tenchi-Muyo!

Debby Rostorfer
"Anything is possible."
A sweet and poetic sprite of an artist who claims to be a Gemini...

Danny Shamon
"This is an absurd American order!"
A relative of mine who absolutely loves the German band Temple of the Absurd so much that he created a web page for it...

Mike Siegel
"Say something, Mike!"
A Brooklynite computer enthusiast who decided to come to Albany for an education. His six-week Israel fellowship probably helped him aim for a career in international relations and diplomacy. Then again, his online laptop shop is practically begging him to go into a career in intellectual property and computer law. He's also very active at Suite 101; he's the managing editor for politics, law, and issues, as well as a contributing editor for Internet law and mideast politics.

Sam Smargon
"Every day gets better."
My father has had a life of extremes -- of sorts. He grew up in a well-to-do home in Detroit, went through college and law school, and moved to Miami. With two exceptions, he has been an employee of the State of Florida or the federal government for his entire life. He's paid his dues -- literally -- in the 1980s, but he reclaimed his desired standard of living through hard work. He now lives in a city I don't want to live in -- Boca Raton, Florida.

Stephanie Smargon
"Hewwo, widdle wannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!"
My crazy sister. One of a few people in this world that can make me laugh at the drop of a hat. She graduated from the University of Florida in 1997 (like me!), and began slaving away for the corporate masters at BankAtlantic in Fort Lauderdale. She will be returning to school (location unknown) for an MBA in the Fall of 2000.

Todd Vierling
"I wanna be an astronaut!"
His news about the computer industry is so fast, it scares me. He can write Perl blindfolded.

Jeremy Weiss
"Macintoshes aren't that bad!"
Again, I'm friends with him because his dad and my dad are such good friends. He's a dedicated and loyal white Republican banker [my emphasis, thanks to George Carlin] at Michigan National Bank, and both of us love the Detroit Red Wings.