I am 35 and have been married for the last decade. I have two beautiful daughters (5 and 2) that are my "Pumpkin" and "Banana," respectively.

As I like to tell my wife, I am a man with simple, yet specific, tastes.

I can no longer call myself a multiple college dropout (both the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and University of Illinois @ Champaign-Urbana) as in November of '07 I earned my Bachelors of Science in Technology from Excelsior College.

I spent 8 miserable years in the Navy, where I operated a nuclear reactor on a submarine (yay for 6+ years of sea-time straight - wonder why I got out...).

I now work for the University at Albany College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering doing laboratory stuff.

I used to RP quite a bit (before I joined the Navy) and am still in touch with the guys that I RPed with (all of whom were buddies from HS - shit, one of them I have known since first grade...).
I started with TMNT then onto AD&D 2E and then to Rifts - and then to D&D 3.X, which I have been enjoying quite a bit. I'd really like to run a couple of campaigns that don't use any sort of D&D rules, but as the ideas behind them seem to appeal to only me, it is likely to never get off the ground.
Last year I joined a group (the Iron Gamers Guild in the Capital-region of NY) and am playing D&D once a week - see the AP thread for campaign specifics.

I read a lot - my tastes run the gamut from the comics of Mutts, Sherman's Lagoon, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes (not that C&H should count because I can't think of anyone who DOESN'T like that) to the more noirish works of Andrew Vachss and Joe R. Lansdale to the horror stylings of Dean R. Koontz, Stephen King (his short stories moreso than his novels - he tends to be a wordy fuck) and Richard Matheson to the sci-fi goodness of Issac Asimov ("The Ugly Little Boy" made me cry it was so beautiful) to the oldie-but-goodie All Creatures Great and Small works by James Herriot to the seriously pissing-me-off works of Robert Jordan (that Wheel of Time shit needs to end up quick) and quite whimsical Harry Potter books (if you haven't read, you need to give them a shot - good stuff). Within the last year I also discovered the Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko. I am currently enamored of the works of Harlan Ellison and the "Gray Mouser and Fafhrd" stories by Fritz Leiber.

I like good horror (In the Mouth of Madness, The Thing (1982), The Ring) and bad horror (which tends to veer into really shitty comedy - think the Jack Frost that doesn't star Michael Keaton).
I like good comedy (think As Good As It Gets) and bad (like Shakes the Clown - comedy gold).
I enjoy a good drama (Dangerous Liasons) and action flicks that don't suck balls (Matrix? Good. Matrix Revolutions? Sucks.).

My musical tastes run from the punk compilations to Barry Manilow to Abba to Megadeth to Eminem to Pat Benetar to Avenged Sevenfold.
80's music holds a special place in my heart because most of it is so damned irritating.

I like The Simpsons and was pissed as hell that they took Arrested Development (which I am going on record here saying that it was "Best TV show EVER") off the air. I am recently enamored with 30 Rock, which is an adequate replacement that was the insanity of AD.
I don't watch much TV anymore because the childrens don't allow for it so much.