Acknowledgments

I’d like to take this time to acknowledge the rest of my family and friends, without whom none of this would happen. First, my mother and father, who spent their 1983 tax return on our family’s first computer, an 8mhz Sanyo with 256kb of Ram and a monochrome monitor. They also showed me that it was possible to make a good living being a geek. I can’t forget my brother Christopher, a talented writer and bon vivant who shared my love for good food and loud music. I will always miss him.

Robby Fahey, my live-in muse, keeps me from playing video games all day, so that I can pay my bills and continue to afford vinyl LPs. Without her and our lovely cat, Ally, the home office would be a lonely place indeed.

Garfield High School was where ...

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