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Born: November 1959, Boston. Son of an accountant and a school teacher. Raised in Bedford, Mass. Oldest of four brothers. Two-parent household. Not rich. No significant family dysfunction.
Racial Heritage: White. Anglican gene pool. During the American Revolution, my ancesters sided with the British and fled to Canada.
Cultural heritage: Gilligan's Island, Beverly Hillbillies, McHale's Navy, Hogan's Heroes, F-Troop, Star Trek.
Childhood Events: Fan of science fiction, mainly books by Arthur C. Clark and Kurt Vonnegut. Math/science geek through the 11th grade (Math League, Science Club, etc.). In 1977, attended a summer program for gifted high school students at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T. Subsequently, was no longer enthralled by math or science; started pursuing an interest in psychology. Had nearly perfect scores on the SAT: 800/760. Graduated from Bedford High School in 1978, ranked 17th in a class of about 300. (Have attended none of their reunions since then.)
College: In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Attended Brown University, University of Southern California, and University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Classes in Psychology, Linguistics, Geography and Journalism. No degree.
College-Era Activities: In the late 1970s and early 1980s, traveled widely in North America by passenger train, bus, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains. Visited all of the 50 states. Lived and worked for 3 months in New Zealand. Worked briefly at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and at Glacier National Park. Hopped a freight train for 1000 miles from western Montana to Minneapolis. Later arrested for riding a freight train in Springfield, Mass. Smoked pot once. (It put me in bed for three days.) Worked for about a year making plastic drinking cups on the night shift in a grim, gray factory in Lowell, Massachusetts, while living in a decrepit rooming house nearby. (Both the factory and the rooming house have since been purchased by the U.S. Government and are now preserved as National Historic Sites.)
Early career: When the Apple II computer and IBM PC personal computers first became available in the early 1980s, I taught myself how to program them and was employed part-time writing software for cognitive psychology experiments. Later held jobs writing business applications in the "C" language on the IBM PC. Longest job was working for a small company making software for the Treasury departments of international banks. Extended business trips to London, Luxembourg and Singapore. Around 1992, I sold my stock in the company and temporarily "retired."
Travels: Between 1987 and 1992 (before I retired), traveled extensively throughout North America, Europe, South America and Australia, mostly while continuing to work full-time in Boston. Most of these trips were intense weekend tours taking advantage of airfare wars and frequent flyer deals. In my first trip to Europe, I visited London, Manchester, Brussels, Cologne and Paris in four days via rail and ferry, after arriving in London on a $99 airfare. Other weekend trips took me to Amsterdam, Caracas, Munich, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, New Delhi, Nassau, San Juan, Detroit, Los Angeles, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Vancouver, St. John, St. John's, Seattle, Portland, Key West, Death Valley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Houston, Rapid City, El Paso, New York City, Washington, Ottawa, New Orleans, Tijuana, Mexico City, and Chihuahua-Chihuahua. I always traveled alone, usually renting a car at my destination and sometimes sleeping in it.
Other trips (only slightly longer, before and after my retirement): Drove the Alaska Highway in a camper; drove 10000km in the Australia outback in 10 days; side trip to Tazmania; Eurailpass tour of Europe; several driving tours of Switzerland, Germany, France and Northern Italy, starting from Munich; Driving tour of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra; driving tour of Patagonia; circumnavigation of Lake Superior; driving tour of Devon and Cornwall; drove Route 1 along most of the California Coast; visited East Berlin when it was still Communist; stranded for 10 days in Tok, Alaska.... I was drawn repeatedly to Las Vegas on many different trips; the city struck me as more attractive than any of the others for reasons that I can't get into here (because this is "Just the facts, M'am").
Post-Career Era: Immediately following my retirement from the software field, I continued to take short trips out of Boston. In between, I volunteered at Short Stop a short-term emergency shelter for abused and neglected children in Somerville, Mass. (similar to Child Haven). I worked as an assistant in their Development Office and wrote grant proposals.
More of my background can by found in my unfinished book I Was Abducted by Aliens at Area 51.
My top-level website is AliensOnEarth.com.
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