Born in the final days of the Nixon administration in Neenah, Wisconsin, United States of America along the lovely shores of Lake Winnebago, fiddlesticks has led a life-long battle against ignorance, corruption, and bad Thai food.
Educated in the ways of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently living in not-so-lovely Sunnyvale, California by some accounts the Heart of Silicon Valley.
fiddlesticks fun facts:
- fiddlesticks' gall bladder was removed during emergency surgery in September 1994.
- fiddlesticks went to Space Camp in Huntsville, AL back in 1987.
- fiddlesticks has managed to keep a ghost tetra tropical fish alive since April 1997.
- fiddlesticks takes Allegra.
- as a child, fiddlesticks literally ran into Charles Osgood in the lobby of a Chicago hotel.
Quintessential Stuff
Albums
- Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
- Pisces Iscariot - The Smashing Pumpkins
- Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
- The Bends - Radiohead
- Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
- Trace - Son Volt
- Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) - Henryk Gorecki
- You'd Prefer an Astronaut - Hum
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
- Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
- No Depression - Uncle Tupelo
- Stratford-On-Guy - Liz Phair
- Malibu - Hole
- Soma - The Smashing Pumpkins
- Drown - Son Volt
- Sulk - Radiohead
- Cure For Pain - Morphine
- Cannonball - The Breeders
- 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
- White Chocolate Space Egg - Liz Phair
- Palo Alto - Radiohead
- This Time - The Smashing Pumpkins
- Water Music - T. Coraghessen Boyle
- Underworld - Don Delillo
- Shoeless Joe - W. P. Kinsella
- Cosmos - Carl Sagan
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Life After God - Douglas Coupland
- Hyperspace - Michio Kaku
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract - Bill James
- Goodfellas
- Apollo 13
- Field of Dreams
- Fargo
- The Third Man
- Silence of the Lambs
- Brazil
- Pulp Fiction
- Heat
- Se7en
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Three Kings
fiddlesticks does not normally speak in the third person.