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Real Name:	Jeff Jones (formerly Jeff Dierking)
Home Town:	Marysville, Washington (about an hour's drive north of Seattle)
Occupation:	Web Appliction Developer
Hobbies & Interests:	Computers (duh!!), movies, reading and music. Also, I collect various things from shot glasses to comic books.
Online Hangouts:	When online at home, I am usually on ICQ, MSN Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and AOL Instant messenger. I use Trillian. My contact information is: UIN - 464607 MSN - lordjester@hotmail.com Yahoo! - lrdjester AIM - jwdierking Feel free to drop me a line and say hello, I accept all add requests. I also have a business UIN, but it is only for work related communications. Ask and I may provide you with it. I am also occasionally on an EFNet irc server in the #seattle.gothic channel with the nick LrdJester.
Favorite Music:	My musical taste is too diverse to try to list the all of the bands I like. But a few are KISS, AC/DC, Metallica, Enya, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Beatles and that is literally the tip of the iceberg.
Favorite Authors:	Again, it is a very diverse list. A few include James Clavell, John Grisham, Steven King, Clive Barker, Clive Cussler, Mark Frost, Eric Lustbader and again, the list goes on and on.
Favorite Movies:	All the Star Wars Movies, (original and special edition), Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Minority Report, Spiderman, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Gangs of New York, The Matrix, Star Trek Movies (especially 2, 4, 6 and First Contact), The Blair Witch Project, Fargo, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Scream, All the Bruce Lee Movies, The Crow, Die Hard (Trilogy), and many others.
Other Facts:	I have had five brain surgeries to correct the symptoms of a birth defect. Chiari Malformation (type 1) is a rare deformation of the brain stem. In my case (a type 1 case) the cerebellum was mis-shappen, and was partially down inside my spinal column. This caused several problems that needed surgery to correct. I had hoped to be able to put up more information this. That hope was back when I was at three surgeries. I have since had new symptoms arisen that have shown I have a second condition; Syringomyelia. Syrigomyelia is a condition where spinal fluid travels through the spinal cord. Build ups of the fluid cause cysts called syrinxes. I have a good size syrinx in my neck that has caused me to lose most of the motor coordination and quite a bit of physical sensation from my right hand. There is a surgery that was recommended for this by one doctor. However, futher consultation with my new Neurosurgeon has brought me to the conclusion that if the symptoms are not getting worse (which they aren't - knock on wood) then the risk is too great, as there is only a slim chance things will improve. I am more than happy to discuss it via e-mail if anybody has any questions.