1. What is your name?

My friends call me Jeff. npecom is an old biz handle, which is an acronym for "New Paradigm Enterprises - Communication Division"

2. Tell us something about you, your background, and what you've been up to lately?

I've worn various hats, but then finally retired from 28+ years as a "Clean Water Technician"

3. How did you discover Everything, and how did you become a noder?

I, quite literally, typed the word "everything" into "the Google", on a whim. E2 looked like fun, my first node got a C! and I was hooked!

4. What are your favorite writeups -- both your own and from other noders?

In reply, I will direct you to my Home Node (chock full of links and quotes)

5. What are your favorite and least favorite memories from E2's history?

I'm glad I arrived after the epoch known as "Raising

A newspaper reader says, a political party will ruin itself

if it makes error like this.

My higher politics says, a party which makes errors like this

is already in decline. 

-Friedrich Nietzsche 

The ad, I believe, was from 2009. 

“Snuggies” were basically blankets with sleeves; 

why struggle with blankets, 

the voiceover said 

while a woman in bed

I think Kevin should post this, but it's hard noding from a phone interface, so I guess I'll need to do it for him. 

Wertperch is unfortunately back in the hospital. He was in the ER on Halloween night with what the doctors say was a minor heart attack. He has since had a pulmonary angiogram, and his doctors have decided he needs cardiac bypass surgery. 

This is, I think you can expect, discouraging for him. For one thing, he was looking