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I'm a retired computer programmer. I like to read, travel, go to movies (only the big screen really does it for me), make music, or goof on the internet. I also contribute to WikiQuote.

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People in Wikipedia I have met[edit]

"Met" means, at a minimum, that I either introduced myself or was introduced by name, and that I and the listed person said at least a few words to each other. Simply being in the same room is neither necessary nor sufficient.

  1. Samuel Adler — met when he was music director at the temple I went to in Dallas
  2. Kaveh Akbar — son's English professor
  3. Yosef Almogi (d. 1991) — distant cousin
  4. Marc Auslander — met professionally
  5. John Baird — met at a wedding
  6. Bianca Bagnarelli — my girlfriend's niece
  7. Brian A. Barsky — friend of a friend
  8. Patricia Bernstein — cousin
  9. Ewan Birney — my son's graduate advisor
  10. Grady Booch — met on a visit to Rational Software
  11. John Browning (d. 2003) — met backstage
  12. Bill Buxton — friend of a friend
  13. Loren Carpenter — met at SIGGRAPH
  14. Lee Child — in same drama club at university
  15. Ramsey Clark (d. 2021) — friend of the family
  16. Harold F. Clayton (d. 2015) — met over the phone
  17. Ted Codd (d. 2003) — met at a conference
  18. Kenneth H. Cooper — met at the Cooper Aerobics Center
  19. John Cornyn — voted in the precinct where I was an election judge
  20. Mike Cowlishaw — met professionally
  21. Nikki Craft — met at KCHU in Dallas
  22. Elijah Cummings (d. 2019) — met in the garage behind his Baltimore office
  23. Hugh Darwen — met professionally
  24. Christopher J. Date — met professionally
  25. Robert H. Dedman Sr. (d. 2002) — father's law partner
  26. August Derleth (d. 1971) — met over the phone while ordering a book
  27. Lloyd Doggett — met at a political event
  28. Nick Donofrio — met professionally
  29. Michael Douglas — met at a press conference
  30. Taissa Farmiga — met at a screening of Jamesy Boy
  31. Jane Fonda — met at a press conference
  32. Alain Fournier (d. 2000) — close friend
  33. Henry Fuchs — met while at UT Dallas
  34. Bamber Gascoigne (d. 2022) — met while on University Challenge
  35. Jack Gilford (d. 1990) — met at the Tadich Grill in San Francisco
  36. Stephen Hawking (d. 2018) — met at an astrophysics convention
  37. Banesh Hoffmann (d. 1986) — met at an astrophysics convention
  38. John H. Hoffman (d. 2021) — met while at UT Dallas
  39. Robert Hoffman (d. 2006) — same school
  40. William Hootkins (d. 2005) — same school, same drama group
  41. Lane P. Hughston — high school friend
  42. Donald Johanos (d. 2007) — was friends with his daughter
  43. Tommy Lee Jones — same school, same drama group
  44. Bryce Jordan (d. 2016) — met while at UT Dallas
  45. Tom Kite — met at a birthday party for his son
  46. Polykarp Kusch (d. 1993) — chairman of my doctoral committee
  47. John Lehmann (d. 1987) — took a course from him at UT
  48. Jack Lemmon (d. 2001) — met at a press conference
  49. Alan I. Leshner — sat next to him on an airplane
  50. Joyce Currie Little (d. 2023) — neighbor
  51. Valerie Mahaffey — in my English class at UT
  52. Benoit Mandelbrot (d. 2010) — had dinner with him when he spoke at my school
  53. Stuart Margolin (d. 2022) — my aunt's nephew
  54. Lorenzo Milam (d. 2020) — met while working at the long-defunct KCHU in Dallas
  55. Turk Murphy (d. 1987) — met after a performance
  56. Edwin Neal — same drama group, later member of same synagogue
  57. Tameka Norris — son's art professor
  58. Douglas Northcott (d. 2005) — undergraduate professor
  59. Levi Olan (d. 1984) — rabbi at our congregation
  60. Dean Ornish — same high school, same poker group
  61. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (d. 1995) — met in Dallas
  62. Rick Perry — sat next to him on a plane
  63. Penn & Teller — volunteer from the audience in The Refrigerator Tour
  64. J. J. Pickle (d. 2005) — met at a political event
  65. David Pines (d. 2018) — related to first wife, also present at my first conference talk
  66. George Pólya (d. 1985) — met at a guest lecture at the University of Sheffield
  67. Regina Resnik (d. 2013) — met backstage
  68. Bill Reeves — met at a conference
  69. Patricia Richardson — same drama group
  70. Wolfgang Rindler (d. 2019) — on my doctoral committee
  71. Ivor Robinson (d. 2016) — my graduate advisor
  72. Robert Xavier Rodriguez — met at UT Dallas
  73. Barefoot Sanders (d. 2008) — introduced by his daughter, a school friend
  74. Allan Shivers (d. 1985) — met at UT Board of Regents meeting
  75. Lewis Shiner — same school, same drama group
  76. John Silber (d. 2012) — met while at UT
  77. Preston Smith (d. 2003) — met at a press conference
  78. Stephen Spender (d. 1995) — interviewed for The Daily Texan
  79. Roger Staubach — met in the locker room of the Cooper Aerobics Center
  80. Annette Strauss (d. 1998) — served with her on a committee
  81. Bjarne Stroustrup — met at a conference
  82. Jeffrey Swann — same school
  83. Edward Teller (d. 2003) — met when he spoke at our school
  84. Stephen Tobolowsky — met at high school debate tournaments
  85. Andrzej Trautman — met at a conference
  86. Alex Trebek (d. 2020) — met while on Jeopardy!
  87. Jack Valenti (d. 2007) — interviewed for The Daily Texan
  88. Dee Dee Warwick (d. 2008) — met on a tour bus in the Bahamas
  89. John Wayne (d. 1979) — had lunch with him at a press conference
  90. Trevor White — my son's friend
  91. George Whitman (d. 2011) — hung out in his bookstore in Paris in the early seventies
  92. Angus G. Wynne (d. 1979) — father's law partner
  93. Sheldon Zimmerman — rabbi at our congregation

I've also run into Chinua Achebe, Dan Rather (twice!), Ann Richards, Johnny Mathis and Jason Alexander, but was not introduced. I also feel like I once met Michael Stonebraker, but I can't remember the circumstances.

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