A few things about me...

I love to travel and am slowly working my way through all 50 states: 44 down, with AL, AK, HI, KS, ND, and WI left. Hopefully Japan, India, & Iceland are next on my list of international vacations. I try to put a photograph from most places I've visited on this map of my pictures.

Random history: I ran in the 109th Boston Marathon. Held (as always) on a Massachusetts state holiday, 500,000 spectators turned out to watch 20,000 runners go 26.2 miles. It was an amazing spectacle and lots of fun to be a participant after years of watching.

I rode the Pan-Mass Challenge, a 163 mile bicycle trip that was part of the world's largest athletic fundraiser. Riding with cancer patients, survivors, and families was the most humbling experience I've ever had; by comparison the cycling was easy, I even spent a few miles drafting on the wheel of Greg LeMond.

I spent four years at Carnegie Mellon, which provided some unique opportunities. For over a year I had bi-weekly meetings with my research advisor, Herb Simon, who is the only person to win both a Nobel Prize and a Turing Award. As I'm sure you can imagine, he had some incredible stories; as one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence, he was an academic hero to me.

I ran a CMU lecture series, which allowed me to cross paths with all sorts of interesting people from Douglas Adams to Jerry Springer to Jane Goodall. I also started a campus satire newspaper which grew to include dozens of writers with thousands of readers, and I'm happy to say that it's still around as a student organization today.

I sat on George H.W. Bush's shoulders once (which sounds like a great story until you find out I was four years old). I lived to see the Red Sox win a World Series (it didn't take quite as long as I expected) -- once on TV and once in person. I even, somehow, got the nickname "Guido"... but that's a story for another day.

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