Movies you like:
Dr. Strangelove, Trainspotting, The Graduate, Reservior Dogs, The Game, Heat, Spice World

Music you listen to;
Spice Girls, Mozart, Swing, Modern Rock, Dinasuar Rock, Blues.

Favorite web link:
The "web?"

What doesn't matter in life?
Untied shoes.

What is you motto?
Carpe Diem

Who do you admire?
Posh Spice & Richard Feynman.

Who would you expire?
Mcakauly Culkin

Are you (were you as a grad student) (in any way like) a fish?
Fish are cool, but I don't believe I bear any resemblance.

Are you cool?
That *is* one thing that I have in common with the fish.

What keeps you from sleeping in the nights?
Something warm and furry (my cat).

What wakes you up in the morning?
Something warm and furry (once again, the cat).

What do you always leave for tomorrow?
My 1993 Nebraska State Taxes.

What is cutting edge?
Swing.

What is obsolete?
Angst.

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
An astronaut, a fireman, or an astronaut fireman... never quite decided.

With which role of a play or a movie do you identify?
The first guy to get waxed in the old Star Trek episodes. He's always so *dynamic*.

What poisons you?
A lack of slack.

What brings you back?
(need I say it?)

What do(did) you think you will(would) be doing 10 years after your Ph.D graduation?
I would like to stay in the field, or I wouldn't be here.

What do(did) you want to be doing 10 years after your Ph.D graduation?
(already answered).

What is your addiction?
French-roast Coffee.

What are you scared of?
A world without caffiene. A truly green-labelled world.

What is the goofiest mistake you ever made?
You think I'm gonna tell *you*?

What is your personal quote?
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a bannanna.

When do you think the next physics revolution will happen?
Nanotechnology-powered smurfs.

How much would you pay for an acre of land in the moon?
An acre of cheese.

What was the most obnoxious thing you heard in a talk?
I think it was more of a bodily thing...

What was the most obnoxious thing you said in a talk?
(see above)

What is your arch nemesis?
Da Man.

If you could rate the wellness of life between 1-100 what grade would you give yourself now?
80.

Where do you spend your money?
CD's, cats and food (and cat food), rent, and my secret plan to put the U.S. back into the land speed record.

What can you not afford?
The cats.

How many bets that you can remember have you won?
I made $15 in Las Vegas at the slot machines once. I lost it at Lake Tahoe 12 years later.

How many of them were on physics?
It's *all* physics, right?