Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: who are these folks? (P'relan)
From: jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (P'relan)
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:52:21 -0500
Organization: Dept. of Physics

> Stranger-No-More asks for intros...

Name: James Walden

Description: 6'4", 175 pounds (why is pounds abbreviated lbs?), fairly
	     short brown hair at the moment as well as a brown beard and
	     eyes that change color from brown to green or so I'm told
	     since I'm colorblind and can't reliably tell the difference
	     between the two colors.  I'm usually in jeans and dress
	     usually by the same method as Polymath - what's first in the
	     closet though I have friends check clothes before I buy
	     some strange colors like the wonderful blacks that people
	     keep calling maroon - and either wear white tennis shoes or
	     brown mocassin boots (great but not recommend for cement).

Persona: P'relan, dragonrider of blue Birith (see McCaffrey's Dragonriders
	 of Pern if you want more information).  I don't really use that
	 persona often any longer, but perhaps I'll get around to reading
	 all of Didi's adventures outside the bar and enter into one of
	 them, wary of Jilara's water cannon in case she still remembers
	 getting soaked by a certain dragon about two years ago...

Description: Easy, go with the one above but usually wearing midnight blue
	     wherhide (first one who doesn't make any McCaffrey puns gets
	     a free dinner at Pernkins? *grin*) flying gear and no glasses.

Email address: jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Bitnet address: jwwalden@miavx1.bitnet (though why you'd want to use Bitnet...)

Occupation: Doctoral student in Physics

Significant Other: Toothpick (dapetersen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu) who I met
		   over the net through VMSphone, trying to contact a
		   friend of mine when she was using his account.  A rather
		   strange coincidence though it was anything but love at
		   first sight! *grin*  As for the romantic part of getting
		   together, we tend to disagree on what happened but do
		   agree that the movie _He Says, She Says_ is a fairly
		   accurate account of how male/female perceptions differ. (-:

Interests: Science Fiction and Fantasy or I wouldn't be here! :-), computers
	   and computing, metaphysical/social discussions or even arguments
	   sometimes (-:, Chinese and general Oriental food, teas and how
	   they're better than coffees (*duck*!), and lots of stuff that
	   you'd have to e-mail me to find out...(-:

Favorite Authors: Currently I'm very into Mercedes Lackey and Melanie Rawn,
		  but in general I tend towards hard SF like Benford, Brin,
	          Forward, Hogan and truly love some Fantasy authors like
		  Orson Scott Card, Stephen Donaldson, Barbara Hambly,
		  and of course J.R.R. Tolkien but I'm willing to read just
		  about everything.  (Oh, and I did limit the list to SF&F
		  because it seems that most people's interests around here
		  focus on that.)

Favorite Music: RUSH, Bach, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Yes, Pink Floyd, Mozart,
		Enya, ABWH (though they only have one album I can find - if
		you know differently e-mail me!).  I generally stick to
		somewhat stranger rock groups, classical, and musicals, but
		listen to just about everything but rap.

Bad Tendencies: Being rather too verbose in my posts and too convoluted in
		my sentence structure...(-;

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 P'relan (and Birith)      	   ``Time stand still -
 jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu      I'm not looking back -
  or jwwalden@miavx1.bitnet	     But I want to look around me now.'' - RUSH