Real Name:
David Mohr
Occupation:
International Quality Assurance Engineer
and part-time student
Legal Status: American citizen with no criminal record
(unless speeding tickets count)
Former Aliases: De Quoi?, Blackfire, Gamoth, Ray Drake,
Scooter
Current Aliases: Keldred MacNeil, the Evil One
Known Relatives: see my family
page...
Place of Birth: not available over the Internet (California)
Group affiliation: Gathering of the Gaels (kinda)
First Appearance: not available over the Internet (Taurus)
History: I was born and am now alive. I've pretty much
lived in the San Francisco Bay Area
since age one, albeit with four stints in Europe. Despite being
born into a Catholic family of seven kids, I'm a fun guy. More
data to follow...
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 250 lbs (although constantly in flux)
Eyes: brown (four)
Hair: seasonal -- brown in winter, dirty blond in summer;
darker moustache and beard
Known Powers: to run off and PLAY at a moment's notice,
which may be linked to a strong drive to have fun and be silly.
Other abilities include Game Mastering (linked to a quasi-mutational
imagination), Comic-Book Absorption (currently in decline), Food-Destruction
(special effect of Eating) and Eternal Good-Humor (I don't "fake"
smiles). (It has been theorized, however, that when DMing, I have
the singular ability to pump blood with a granite cardio-vascular
muscle.)
Other Important Info:
Alma Mater:
Santa Clara University
Current School:
San Jose State Univerity....I'm
a were-student
Majors: Computer Science (in Mathematics) and French with
German now in progress
Graduation Date: June, 1990
Next (projected) Graduation Date: May, 2002
Other Schools Attended: Foothill
College, De Anza College,
Heald Institute of Technology,
UC Berkeley (extension),
L'Institut
des Etudes Européenne, L'Université de Nantes,
Mission College
Current Classes:
German 101a
Languages Known: English, French, German, Sign (ASL), C,
Basic, LotusScript (an odd dialect of Visual Basic), SQL
Languages Studied: Japanese, Russian, Latin, FORTRAN, Assembly,
Jovial, Lisp, Rexx
Neat Things Studied: SCUBA diving, Highland dancing, first
aid and life saving, rappelling, fencing, karate, judo, ecology
of the Coastal Redwoods, philosophy and religion, Asian history,
games of all sorts, live theater (as opposed to dead theater)
Things I Want to Study: Arabic, Chinese (haven't decided
on Mandarin or Cantonese yet), guitar, piano, Egyptology, medicine
(but not surgery)
Games Played: Dungeons and Dragons (heavily modified),
Risk,
chess, backgammon, *silent* Marco Polo, Hide n' Sneak,
Hearts, Scategories, Uno (requires a camping trip), volley ball,
SQ 2100 (?)
Hobbies: hiking, backpacking, camping, swimming (several
times/week), weight lifting, biking, Kimba (my dog), spending
time with Paul, Gaming
DnD & SQ 2100, dancing (Highland, Irish, folk and modern),
SCUBA diving, existing in any capacity on the beach, pondering
things, reading, studying languages, studying ancient civilizations,
comparing things, people watching, talking with strangers, ancient
civilizations, TRAVELING!
Favorite Places: my hammock on a sunny day, Castle and
Summit Rocks, the beaches and coasts north of Santa Cruz, Butt Lake (yes, that's really the name
of the place), the top of the redwood tree in the back of my childhood
home, late morning at the Northern California Renaissance Faire,
the Isle of Skye in Scotland, the city of Edinburgh, the woods
around my French parents' home, the quiet walking trails along
the Côte d'Azure, the cities of Florence and Venice, Neuschwanstein
castle (in Bavaria), the Dalmation Coast in what was Yugoslavia,
the city of Copenhagen, the north-western portion of Kyoto Japan
(near Ginkokuji and Kinkokuji), the caverns of the Devil's Throat
off the coast of Cozumel Mexico, the Alaskan wilderness
Favorite Books: the Hobbit -- J R R Tolkein,
the Number of the Beast -- Robert A Heinlein,
the Vampire Chronicals -- Anne Rice,
the Amber Chronicals -- Roger Zelazny,
the Chronicals of Narnia -- C S Lewis,
the Liriel books -- Elaine Cunnigham,
the collected works of William Shakespeare,
ElfQuest -- Wendy Pini, Calvin & Hobbes -- Alan Watterson,
early X-Men comics -- John Byrne, early Wonder Woman comics
-- George Perez
Favorite Music: Hootie
and the Blowfish, Rush, Asia, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Counting
Crows, Sister Hazel, Deep Blue Something, Madonna, Oingo Boingo,
Indigo Girls, Natalie Merchant, 10,000 Maniacs, Genesis, Phil
Collins, Jimmy Buffet, Hewey Lewis, Styx, Queen, the Eagles, Don
Henley, Cat Stevens, Metallica, Yes, Kansas, Billy Joel, Alain
Manaranche (French), Axel Red (Belgian), the Bangles, Enya, Mike
and the Mechanics, the Cure, XTC, celtic folk music and nearly
all the Disney soundtracks.
Favorite Movies: Contact, the Little Mermaid, Le Grand
Bleu (not the American version though!), Alien(s), Dances with
Wolves, Camille Claudel (French), Star Trek II & IV &
VI, Fatal Attraction, the Game, Basic Instinct, James Bond Movies,
Blade Runner, Terminator II (but not I), the Star Wars movies,
the 5th Element, Prospero's Books, Shogun, Marco Polo, Birdcage,
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beauty and the Beast, the Hunchback of
Notre Dame, Mulan, Simba's Pride (Lion King II), Aladdin and the
King of Thieves (Aladdin III)
Favorite TV Shows: Star Trek (original, TNG, DS9 and Voyager),
Babylon 5, the X-Files, the X-Men, the Simpsons, the Family Guy,
Friends, Ally McBeal, just about everything on the Learning Channel
Favorite Celebrities and Historical Figures: Rosie O'Donnel,
Madonna, Kenneth Branaugh, Jodie Foster, Patrick Stewart (but
not as Piccard!), Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Robert DeNiro,
Sharon Stone, Sean Connery, Danny Elfman, Yanni, Tigger, Leonardo
Da Vinci, Cleopatra, Ben Franklin
Favorite Munchies: ice cream (this is a genetic weakness),
pizza (American ONLY!), popcorn, BBQ chips, piroshkis, tacos,
döner kebaps, buabaschbizla (Swabian), onion rings &
Chinese food of ALL sorts (especially 4-5-6's dumplings)!
Favorite Flavors of Ice Cream: Quarterback Crunch, White
Avalanche, Lady Godiva's Ivory Chocolate Chip, Ben and Jerry's
Vanilla Heathbar Crunch plus any milkshake from Lassen Drugstore
in Chester, CA
Favorite Colors: blue, burgundy, green
Favorite Quotes:
"That which doesn't kill us, only makes us stronger",
"All things in balance", "What goes around,
comes around", "Discrimination: an exercise for
those who can't figure out which is smaller, their heart or their
mind", "Sometimes just a hug makes it all better",
"No idea is more powerful than the truth", "Why?"
Things I like: bears, tigers, orcas, lions, dolphins, big
cats, whales (all these include going to the zoo), dogs, wolves,
manta rays, nature, learning new languages (wanna teach me?!),
soft-cuddles, quiet naps on warm afternoons (preferably with my
live "teddy bear", Paul), sitting around with my friends
and sharing/talking (over a brew or without), having fun, going
out & DOING the things most people dream about
Things I hate: injustice, flakes, liars, cheats, attitude,
selfishness, insensitivity, enablers, bureaucracy, American ethno-centricism
and absolutism, puritanism, religious dogma
Heroes: like most Gen-Xers, I really don't have any, but
if you push me I'd have to say Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo Da
Vinci and my older brothers Steve and Mike. On a cultural level,
I respect the achievements of the Venician Republic and modern
Danemark
Ambitions: to live life to the fullest! To live until I
truly have run out of new experiences -- I wanna handle both dolphins
and big cats, dive all the oceans of the world and become a certified
Dive Master, do MORE rapelling, get back into hang gliding, live
in Europe for a few years, master German and Japanese, learn some
esoteric language like Dutch or Danish or Arabic or Chinese and
live there, visit all the continents of the world and live among
the people, do some adventure traveling through India, Africa
and the Amazon, be part of a "family" of caring friends
-- the kind in Heilein's books, to be tthe absolute best person
and friend I can be, to never grow up!
(yup, I removed all the sexual stuff. If you want info on that, I better know you well enough that you can ask me yourself...email would certainly be a good place to start)
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