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Hello, I'm Peter. I'm married, with two young kids. If you're my friend, you already know me. If you're not, that's more than you wanted to know. :-)

I studied electrical engineering at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois from 1993-1997, and graduated with a B.S.E.E. That summer, I began my career as a test development engineer at Maxim Integrated, where I've worked ever since.

With two children, much of my free time is spent in family walks (we call them hikes, but think "established trail in the woods", not "backpacking in the mountains"), family games, and the like. As they have gotten older, I have been able to slowly introduce them to important bits of geekdom, like watching Star Wars, or reading Asimov robot short stories (not quite ready for the murder mystery of the robot novels, but the I, Robot collection of short stories has been safe for the elder, so far).

My favorite genre is speculative fiction (fantasy and science fiction).

One of my favorite authors is Stephen Lawhead. While I was in college, I co-founded and provided technical support for a Lawhead mailing list. With such lists being out of vogue, it has been shut down, but I still maintain a list of his books, with back-cover blurbs; that list also includes his collaboration with musical artists Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning, and his son Ross's books as well.