Born in the final days of the Nixon administration in Neenah, Wisconsin, United States of America along the lovely shores of Lake Winnebago, fiddlesticks has led a life-long battle against ignorance, corruption, and bad Thai food.

Educated in the ways of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently living in not-so-lovely Sunnyvale, California by some accounts the Heart of Silicon Valley.

fiddlesticks fun facts:

• fiddlesticks' gall bladder was removed during emergency surgery in September 1994.
• fiddlesticks went to Space Camp in Huntsville, AL back in 1987.
• fiddlesticks has managed to keep a ghost tetra tropical fish alive since April 1997.
• fiddlesticks takes Allegra.
• as a child, fiddlesticks literally ran into Charles Osgood in the lobby of a Chicago hotel.

Quintessential Stuff
Albums

• Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
• Pisces Iscariot - The Smashing Pumpkins
• Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
• The Bends - Radiohead
• Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
• Trace - Son Volt
• Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) - Henryk Gorecki
• You'd Prefer an Astronaut - Hum
• Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
• Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
• No Depression - Uncle Tupelo

• Stratford-On-Guy - Liz Phair
• Malibu - Hole
• Soma - The Smashing Pumpkins
• Drown - Son Volt
• Sulk - Radiohead
• Cure For Pain - Morphine
• Cannonball - The Breeders
• 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
• White Chocolate Space Egg - Liz Phair
• Palo Alto - Radiohead
• This Time - The Smashing Pumpkins

• Water Music - T. Coraghessen Boyle
• Underworld - Don Delillo
• Shoeless Joe - W. P. Kinsella
• Cosmos - Carl Sagan
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• Life After God - Douglas Coupland
• Hyperspace - Michio Kaku
• A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
• Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
• Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
• The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract - Bill James

• Goodfellas
• Apollo 13
• Field of Dreams
• Fargo
• The Third Man
• Silence of the Lambs
• Brazil
• Pulp Fiction
• Heat
• Se7en
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Three Kings

fiddlesticks does not normally speak in the third person.