Some points of my biography that might be worth knowing:

• I am an atheist.  My parents are atheists.  My father's parents were atheists.  And my grandmother's father was an atheist (he's the one who started it).
• On the other hand, my mother's parents were Christian Scientists, and my father's sister converted to Islam.
• My dad's a physicist and my mom's an actress (both retired but still puttering around in their fields).
• I'm a computer scientist, currently working in the field of machine learning, which I view as automated philosophy of science.  Before getting into machine learning, I mostly worked on digital watermarking (which I don't view as having any philosophical implications, really).
• My career started in the early 80's at AT&T Bell Labs, writing software for Arno Penzias and Bob Wilson, the guys who measured the background radiation predicted by the Big Bang theory.
• I spent most of the 90's living and working in Prague, Czechoslovakia (one country at the time) and Vilnius, Lithuania.
• I came back from Lithuania with a wife who kicks butt, and I now have two frighteningly beautiful daughters.
• In April 2007, I was daignosed with stage 4 lung cancer.  Metastases to my ribs, spine, and left retina.  So far, however, things have gone far better than could be expected.