Work - system administrator for a Western university. Used to be in the biotech biz, the intel biz before that.

Hobbies - shooting, reading history, trashy science fiction, writing...stuff.

Politics - libertarian/constitutional conservative.

Military - U.S. Navy, 1970-80.

For my liberal friends:

"...impatient reformers, thinking it easier and shorter to get possession of the government than the intellects and dispositions of the public, are in a constant temptation to stretch the province of the government beyond due bounds."
J.S. Mill, "Principles of Political Economy"