born in 1934 and led a busy life until circa 2006: spent a lot of time in airports and on airplanes (so, well-read) - lived in 27 locations on three continents (traveled in three more).
had one wife (died 1987) and have three sons, three granddaughters, and one grandson.
did a lot of different things including infantry rifleman (Korea draftee), Fulbright Scholar (University of Melbourne – B.Ed. – 1960), computer programmer (IBM – 1960-1987 - mainly attended meetings and wrote reports), teacher (Central Texas College – 1987-1992 – data processing).
favorite books include Quiller-Couch’s “The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1918”, Ricks’ “The Oxford Book of English Verse”, McGann’s “The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse”, Harington’s “Orlando Furioso” (also Slavit’s abridged translation), the Norton “The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850), Putnam’s “Don Quixote” (also Montgomery’s), Dewey’s “The Quest for Certainty”, Stallings’ “The Nature of Things”, Hudson’s “Far Away and Long Ago”.
favorite movies include: 1959 "On the Beach" featuring Bob as the Planesman and Fred Astaire as the Scientist
favorite quotes include: "Not only is the universe stranger than we know, it is stranger than we can know." (variously worded, variously attributed - mainly to J. B. S. Haldane - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.B.S.Haldane )
favorite songs include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onefor_My_Baby_(and_One_More_for_the_Road) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_with_the_Light_Brown_Hair
favorite songsmiths include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Porter
Summary:
he was born amid alien corn
and marched only to syncopated drumming
he met lots of strange people
dropped beautiful petals down soundless wells
lived over long good times gone
Rules:
Be the best you can be.
Do unto others as you would be done unto.
Pay to those who follow the debts you owe to those who went before.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
Smell the roses.
Faith:
Atheist by temperament
Agnostic by intellect
High church by tradition
Transactional epistemologist by choice