--While bended down in the wine-dark sea...--the Odyssey

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Late B(l)oomer, ex-Boho, -flaneur,-radical faerie; -admin assist; 47; single; retired; I love the performing arts, since purchasing my first Mac have tended to read the Biz/Tech section of the daily rag before any other (which alone probably dates me).

A first-generation San Franciscan, I remember the City as a working-class town, pre-Vatican II Masses (the priest's back turned to the congregation), the Grand Piano Caf� in the Haight and playing in the streets with the sons of ex-Chief of Police Thomas Cahill.

Educated at St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA; I have labored variously as a gardener, government manual laborer, law clerk, and stripper.

Unabashedly romantic, hopelessly neurotic, something of a snob, I have yet to be convinced of the efficacy of psychotherapy.

Socially liberal, my politics are shifting from a bold-faced libertarianism ('Conservatives with no morals' according to David Horowitz) to a more socially responsible liberalism. Perhaps this is part of vestigial Catholic social doctrine creeping into my old age. I currently reject the god hypothesis but have periodic fits of faith so violence they are like attacks of fever.

My pet is named Kitty, a neutered male.

My pet peeves are: � American car culture � Gross commercialization on the web � The loss of Bohemian culture in the City-by-the-Bay � Microsoft products

My pet loves are reading and music. Currently I'm reading Barabara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Emile Zola's Nana, and Steve Levy's Hackers.

So where do you want to go today (Uggh!)?