• University of Iowa
• Iowa lacrosse
• Iowa rowing
• Acacia fraternity
• Libertarian Party of Iowa

• Scott County Iowa State University Extension Council - I won a seat on the Extension Council as a write-in candidate in 2000, and was re-elected in 2004 to serve until 2008.
• Twin Galaxies' Video Game World Records - Several years ago, I posted some of my high scores to the rec.games.video.classic Usenet newsgroup, and for a time, I was acknowledged as the world's best Bank Heist, Frantic Freddy, Heist, and Jungle Hunt (Colecovision) player. I've since lost those top rankings, but since a few of the scores that ousted mine are easily obtainable, I may try to reclaim some of those titles in the future.
• Children of the Corn - As an extra, I'm only in frame for one scene for any real length of time, although I can point out at least two other quick shots of me. At least my sister got to kill someone.

My first job that covered dental insurance offered two plans, one that didn't cover as much but offered virtually any dentist, the other covered pretty much everything but only offered a couple of dentists. Having gone without dental care for a while and so as to preperation for my nuptials, I chose the latter and ended up with Dr. Buddy (name changed to protect the incompetent), sheepskin barely dry.

The initial visits go pretty well, and we determine that I'm probably going to need two root canals and the wisdom teeth are going to need to go eventually, but really one one root canal needs to be done pre-wedding. First visit, hour in the chair, pain fairly bad, but managable. Second visit, hour and a half in the chair, and my shirt is ruined by bleach, pain comparatively light. Third visit, another hour, pain excruciating. Fourth visit, another hour and a half, light pain except for a couple of gotchas. At least it was done.

Shortly after this marathon, my future in-laws host a shower for us, and by chance I get seated next to a fairly prominent dentist in the area, my fiancee asks him how his practice is doing, and he mentions that he's down to half-time and is actually doing a lot of teaching at a nearby university. The same university that Dr. Buddy graduated from. So I mention my torturer to him, and he leans back, whistles, and says, "Ohhhhh, Buddy.... I probably shouldn't say anything more about Buddy."

Later, armed with a decent dental plan, I tackled the second root canal with an endodontist, who was done in one 45 minute sitting with absolutely no pain and no shirts ruined. Oh, and my current dentist? Same school and class as Dr. Buddy, but has managed to not ruin a single shirt.

"Squirrel Killer" is originally from high school debate. There was a brief book (collection of ready made arguments for competitive debate) called "Squirrel Killer Briefs" that supposedly focused on obscure topics (the "squirrelly" ones) that might arise. The reality was that, at least in my area, the briefs were so popular that everyone knew the arguments and the counter arguments. Back then I used "Guru" on on-line systems as my nick. Once the Internet took off, I realized that "Guru" was too common a name to ever be available on most systems, so I switched to "Squirrel Killer". It's not entirely inappropriate either, since I always seem to get asked bizzare questions on obscure topics, and always seem to find the answer.

To my knowledge, I have never killed an actual squirrel.