Hello! Here's a little bit about me:

Birthplace: Charlotte

Primary/Secondary Education: Gaston County Schools

Userboxes This user lives in the U.S. State of North Carolina. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications . This user is interested in computer engineering. This user is interested in severe weather. This user IS interested in Space. This user has visited the Caribbean. This user is interested in aviation. ?J! This user was a contestant on Jeopardy!. FAUX NEWS This user believes that Fox News is not fair or balanced. This user has an account on YouTube as cag1970. This user built their own PC. This user prefers Mozilla Firefox. This user enjoys computer and video game music outside gaming. For this user, the Sega Saturn was definitely not ill-fated! This user supports the use of nuclear energy. This user knows that " the stars above" and " the ground below" is the PAST; " all-around" is the PRESENT; and, " within" is the FUTURE. - Dr. Dennis Bogdan ( NYT 2023) PHI This user is a fan of the Philadelphia Phillies NCS This user is a fan of the NC State Wolfpack. This user is a fan of the North Carolina Tar Heels. This user believes that the death penalty should never be used. *

Colleges:

• North Carolina State University (Bachelor's Degree, 1992)
  
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Post-Baccalaureate Work)
  
• Central Piedmont Community College (various online and classroom courses)
  
• South Piedmont Community College (various online courses)
  
• University of Oklahoma (by way of the United States Postal Service National Center for Educational Development)
  

Favorite Sports Teams:

• Washington Redskins, National Football League
  
• Philadelphia Phillies, Major League Baseball
  
• Philadelphia Flyers, National Hockey League
  
• New Orleans Pelicans, National Basketball Association
  

Least Favorite Sports Teams:

• Dallas Cowboys, National Football League (though the New England Patriots run a close second)
  
• Atlanta Braves, Major League Baseball (though the New York Yankees run a close second)
  
• Los Angeles Lakers, National Basketball Association (there's not even a distant second)
  
• And oddly enough, I don't have a least favorite National Hockey League team. The closest I come there is the Dallas Stars, and that's because they left Minneapolis/St. Paul bereft of an NHL team for many years.
  

Other interesting things about me:

• I think the Emmy Award is the coolest of the four major entertainment awards given in the United States.
• I love disaster movies, especially The Towering Inferno and A Fire in the Sky. In fact, I wrote the article for A Fire in the Sky
• I have been a contestant on Jeopardy!. In Episode #5750 (taped July 28, 2009, aired September 18, 2009), I came in second place to defending champion Gary Bechtold and won $2,000. Answer to the Final Jeopardy! question - Who was Edward Lear?
• I was also a contestant on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. On an episode recorded November 2, 2011 and broadcast on March 2, 2012, I won $5,750. I was stumped by a question about who owned Dollywood before Dolly Parton owned it. The correct answer was Art Modell.
• I participated in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, seven straight years (2004-10). Which means I have seven very bad novels to my credit (or discredit).
• I also wrote the Wikipedia article on Dawson v. Delaware.