Leif.

Leif's a crazy friend of mine that I met, freakishly enough, over this weird little local BBS waaay back in the old days when a 14.4 modem was "pretty fast". Only the rich kids had 28.8's. Back then, the best way to network a couple of computers was literally to drag them to someone's office after hours and plug them all into each other with this crazy shit called "10baseT" that had two coaxial ends on it. We'd hook all the Macs up in this flaky daisy chain arrangement, get a shitload of Diet Coke and sit and play this game called Marathon for twelve hours straight. Aaah, those were the days. Today, they call those sort of things 'LAN parties', but we called it "a big load of geeks all sitting in one room shooting the shit out of each other while laughing like idiots". Anyhow, Leif was one of the guys who spent a lot of time shooting at me while yelling out the odd friendly jibe from across the room. Come to think of it, I didn't much like Leif back then, because he was pretty much unstoppable.

Nowadays, Leif flies about the Internet doing anything and everything. He's got a web design & marketing gig at a company called MasterMynde, and when he's not designing pages (like, REALLY designing, not like the hacked together nonsense you see here) he spins bits of fire around his head, which looks really cool.