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       Nowadays I'm retired and living in Portugal.
       
       Gopher: The First Internet Browser
       
       If you'd like to learn more about the origins of Internet Gopher,
       feel free to read a paper I wrote on the topic in 2011:
       
  TEXT Internet Gopher:Text
   MAC Internet Gopher:Binhex
 UUENC Internet Gopher:uue
   IMG Internet Gopher:Imagex
       
       Writing: Fiction and Non-Fiction
       
       I have written several plays that have been produced including
       my first, "Principia Discordia" for the 2014 Minnesota Fringe
       Festival. In "Principia Discordia" four actors are assigned to
       random roles in segments from three classic plays, meaning all
       the actors needed to learn the lines for all the roles.
       
       I also wrote "Hardwired" with Susanne Becker, a comedy about a couple
       who broke up and then moped around so much that their roommates each
       decided to sign them up for Hardwired, a dating app, and accidentally
       matched them with each other. This was produced at the Bryant Lake Bowl
       on several nights in early 2016.
       
       And I wrote "Leap of Faith," about a conspiracy theorist suspects
       that they are a character in a play. "Leap of Faith" was published 
       in 'First Folio' by Culture Cult Press in 2025.
       
       In 2004 I published my now out-of-print two-volume set
       "Mitlanyal," which describes the 20 religion of the late Professor
       MAR Barker's world of "Empire of the Petal Throne," the first 
       setting published for Dungeons and Dragons by TSR, Inc. 
       A story from Mitlanyal was published in 'Dark Gods' by Wicked Shadow
       Press in 2025.
       
       Performance: Comedy and Drama
       
       I'm a professional comedian and member emeritus of the Vilification Tennis
       comedy troupe, as well as a founding member of Fearless Comedy Productions.
       In 2011 and 2012 I portrayed "Klaus der Baker" at the Minnesota
       Renaissance Festival.
       
       In 2014 circumstances forced me to assume the role of Mr Gold in my own 
       play, Principia Discordia. Later in 2014 I portrayed the villanous titular
       vampire in "Mystery at Gravethwaite Manor" written by Josh Nite.
       
       In 2015 I helped write "Mystery at Mystery Lodge" for Fearless Comedy 
       Productions and played The Auctioneer in this comedy murder mystery.
       
       In 2022 I played a villanous cowboy in Cat Charrier's "Cowboy Cat: the
       Musical."