Erik Von Zipper
 Erik, seen here in his Evel Kneviel costume (Evel's a daredevil of huge proportions for those of you who may not have heard of him), is quite a character. I met him for the first time in 1991 when he was helping Larry build a two-story high structure out of wood pallettes on a Santa Cruz beach. This structure would later be set on fire (kind of like the "Burning Man" statue) with flames shooting hundreds of feet into the evening sky.

Five years later, I moved in as Erik's and Larry's roomate. They were kind enough to bring me in from the cold since I was homeless then. Erik is into Mopar. He'd just rebuilt his bright orange '67 Dodge Dart, continuing work on a loud-and-insane Challenger R/T and will probably work on his yellow Barracuda next. Erik snowboards too, and is way deep into surf music. In fact, he's part of a surf band - VonZipper - who just released their new CD. You can e-mail him at: ethansen@aol.com.


Larry Dickman, with Rachel Cat
 Larry's outlook on life is by far his most outstanding quality. While he takes a lot of things seriously, he's also a realist. Some things can be done, some just can't. When I started getting close to him as a friend, I picked up on this quality because there are just things not worth worrying about!

Larry has his own business, selling used Alfa Romeo, Saab and Rover parts. He's very smart, has a lot of "life experience" under his belt and rebuilds really cool Alfa Romeos. The funny thing is, I didn't like him much when I first met him. It wasn't until early '94 or so before I started my own crazy Alfa Romeo projects, and hung out at his shop a whole lot before we warmed up to each other. If you have any Alfa Romeo parts that you're looking for, Larry's your guy. He's at larry@apedirect.com"


Monte Toren
I met Monte through Tom. Monte's just a shortform for his grander name, Montgomery. Tom and Monte went to Santa Cruz High School together, along with Alan (whose picture I don't have). Monte struck me as a real friendly and unfussy guy - only that he'd have to go home to dinner and eat with his parents every time Tom and I would want to go grab dinner outside.

Whatever his experience in college, he's doing great now. Running the Internet department of Quantum, Inc. , he's certainly done well for himself. I've not quite figured out what Monte does for fun. He does go out on the town with me every once in awhile, but for the most part, he's got his own agenda. He runs, and exercises with extreme regularity. He takes a lot of responsibility for everything in his life. He's a responsible kid, this Monte.


Tom Washburn
Tom is one of my best friends. We haven't been hanging out together a lot lately since I moved to "the other side of the hill." This is too bad, because I do enjoy Tom's company a lot, and he's got some pretty crazy ideas that could become a reality if we had enough money to realize them.

I "met" Tom one morning after Digital Designs class. I was pulling out of the parking lot in my Alfa Romeo when I see this other Alfa Romeo, a 2 door coupe, fly by. I gave chase. Within a few seconds the driver (whom I was to meet later) picked up on this challenge - we raced down the hill at over a hundred miles an hour before we had to climb back up on the other side of campus. I did have another class to go to so I had to break off the chase. Two months later, while hanging out in the mud fixing a friend's car, I met Tom face to face for the first time. He turned out to be a pretty cool guy.

Tom can talk about anything. He's very well informed, and very opinionated at that. He has a mastery for the English language that amazed me, and I find myself trying to imitate his expressions and logic, only to fail miserably. Tom's incredibly talented and has a gift for art. He's also a meticulous programmer. He doesn't like Macs, however, and this troubles me. Oh well, nobody's perfect.


Stanley Wong
I've known Stanley since college. He's one of those guys I couldn't figure out in the beginning. He seemed to have similar interests but somehow, he'd throw me a curve ball every once in awhile.

Stanley's Mr. Big now. He's an Interactive Ad Man at Yahoo!. Stanley and I both graduated from UCSC, him getting an Econ degree and me getting the geeky Computer Engineering degree. Stan's interest lies with techno... uh, who am I kidding ... his major interest is GIRLS. He'd pick out some of the best looking babes when we were in school and he'd have the balls to ask them out too.

This practice continues till this day. It's really hard for me to get any time to hang out with him since he's always flying around the country on business (he's in Sales at Yahoo!) or he's got some pre-determined hot date for the evening. So, if you're a chickie and would like to find out more about Stan the Man - he's a real gentleman - I'm sure he wouldn't mind to hear from you.

Seriously, though. Stanley is an excellent individual. Stan, I know it's cliche, but, YOU'RE DA MAN.


Scott Riggins
Scott, if you're reading this, you should know that all of us in California miss you dearly. This includes most of the people listed above (if they don't know you, then they can't miss you). Seriously, we all know you like Texas, but we also know that you like California better, so what's holding you up?

I met Scott a few years ago while we both worked on Apple Interactive Marketing's Webcasts. Scott quickly showed us all how good we could be at what we did if we put some passion into our work. Scott had (and I believe still does) have a great passion towards the Macintosh and the spirit of Apple Computer in general. He loved working at Apple and poured his heart into everything he did. Apple did not compensate him well enough, however and he is now working as a freelance consultant, building great new tools for the World Wide Web for large multinationals.

Scott's a great friend of mine (actually, everyone on this page is too) and he is the one I miss the most since he's no longer easily accessible to any of us here.