| Name: | Tom |
| Age: | XXVI |
| Birthplace: | St Louis, Missouri |
| Western zodiac: | Aries |
| Eastern zodiac: | Ox |
| Virtues: | Logic, Spontaneity, Bowling, Obfuscation, Resilience |
| Vices: | Dr Pepper, Driving, Dreaming, Delaying, Alliteration |
| Instruments: | piano/keyboard, viola, handbells, bass guitar, Rock Band guitar |
| Other projects: | mostly the random thoughts in my mind |
| Day job: | Programmer Analyst at the Genome Institute |
| Favorite bands: | Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ozomatli, Barenaked Ladies, Ed Miller, Cake |
| Favorite movies: | You've Got Mail, 1776, Josie and the Pussycats, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
| Favorite books: | The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World, Road Fever, Rand McNally Road Atlas, U.S. 40 Today: Thirty Years of Landscape Change in America, Oxford English Dictionary |
| Favorite games: | Parcheesi, Bid Euchre, Mao, Super Mario World, Scattergories |
| Biggest musical influence: | Ernie Hays |
| Favorite Piasa song: | Ex-Communication |
| Outside interests: | bowling, breakfast burritos, California left turns, cartography, Cheddars Casual Café, cleverness, coffee-table books, driving, Dr Pepper, excessive indirection, linguistic silliness, listening, long lists of alphabetised interests, meandering, national parks, observing reactions to silence, photography, pointing out redundancy, taking the scenic route, things, travelling, turning plintzwise, urban renewal, walks, wandering |
