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Credits
Tim Robertson <publisher@mymac.com> Is the creator and reigning publisher of My Mac Magazine, until the people below rebel and kick him out. Working full time as an IT specialist with one of the worlds largest graphic studios (working on Mac's and PC's all day long) Tim also assumes the role of the super-hero "Galatic Avenger" in his spare time. When that is not enough to keep him busy, he spends much of his free time with his five year old daughter, Raechel. Email Tim today about your Mac problems, critiques of the magazine, or if you have seen the nefarious "Evil Galatic Mongrel" in your vicinity of the cosmos.
Russ Walkowich <editor@mymac.com> is the Editor of My Mac. He also works for the government full-time, is a freelance writer, and is My Mac's editor for production and submissions.
Adam Karneboge <webmaster@mymac.com> is My Mac's webmaster, and a second-year graphic design major at Dominican University <http://www.dom.edu> in River Forest, IL, 2 miles away from the Chicago city limits. When Adam isn't hard at work on an assignment, or diligently working on the My Mac website, he can be found playing tennis, his favorite sport. Adam is also the proud owner of an original "Wallstreet" PowerBook G3, and loves to see desktop users fumble with trackpads :-) Adam loves email, so write to him anytime at <webmaster@mymac.com>.
Jim Moravec <copyeditor@mymac.com> is My Mac's Copy Editor. Jim lives in Darien, Illinois, and is a salesman with two children.
Mike Gorman <NYCGORMAN@aol.com> Mike Gorman, a hard-core Mac fan, lives way up north in Waterville, ME. He is a freelance cartoonist whose work has appeared in such places as the NY Press, the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Mac Addict, and elsewhere. Stop by his playground of vices, the Scum Worm at: <http://members.aol.com/nycgorman/home.html>
Lonnie Houghton <lonnie@mymac.com> is an art director for an educational publisher in Portland, Maine. He and his wife raise their son (2 years old) and daughter (6 months) in the lovely countryside of rural Maine, over an hour's drive from his office. Lonnie's hobbies are traveling to and from work, changing diapers, playing with large Legos, watching children's videos, and playing on his Mac whenever he's willing to trade-off sleep. He would love to hear from you regarding the Macintosh or any other creative topic.
Pete Miner <pete@mymac.com> is a full-time truck owner/operator and freelance Macintosh columnist. Pete spends a vast amount of his life alone in his truck crisscrossing the United States, and likens it to solitary confinement with a view. Be sure to check out Pete's home page, The Macintosh Funnies, at <http://www.wolfenet.com/~pminer>.
Susan Howerter <susan@mymac.com> has been teaching special education for 25 years. Susan now has two Macs at home, a 5215 and a StarMax 3160, both with 48 megs of RAM and a couple of APS hard drives. Susan would love to hear from you, so be sure to drop her an email with your thoughts and comments.
John Nemerovski <nemo@mymac.com> is a musician, photographer, outdoorsman, and Mac consultant residing in sunny Tucson, Arizona. He is an enthusiastic participant in the local and international Macintosh and Internet communities, and welcomes reader comments.
Mick O'Neil <mickoneil@mymac.com> is a former columnist for PCW Magazine in the UK and a freelance writer contributing articles to a number of periodicals including Byte Magazine, MacUser and MacWorld (UK and Australia), and the Journal of Computing in Higher Education. Mick's home page is at <http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/3423/mick.html>
Jason Kim <jason@mymac.com> is a high school student in Irvine, California. He's literally grown up with the Macintosh since his dad brought home a 512K when he was just 1 year old. Now his family has 4 Macs: that original 512K, a Macintosh IIcx, a PowerComputing Power 120, and a Performa 6400/200. Among many interests related to Macs, Jason likes to write his own software and dabbles in alternate operating systems (BeOS, MkLinux). Jason's home page is at <http://jasonk.home.ml.org>.
David E. Price <GCSPhotoBug@WWBChat.com>is a Senior Consequence Analyst in the Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and International Security Directorate at one of the USA's national laboratories. He is also a professional free-lance photographer. Hìs favorite pasttimes are photography, long-distance bicycling, and roasting Wintel machines. He is the World Without Borders host/moderator for My Mac Magazine Presents... and several other Macintosh-related conferences, and is the author and host for a weekly interactive photograph tutorial. You may sample his photography tutorials on his website at <http://home.earthlink.net/~davidprice>
Lyn Price <GCSNormira@WWBChat.com> is known affectionately to her friends as Normira. She is a Program Coordinator for exchange students from all over the world (teaching English and American Culture). She is also a full-time student and a free-lance photographer. Her favorite pasttimes are distance bicycling, photography, and watching her husband "roast Wintel machines. She is the host for Kitchen Kapers (a weekly kitchen chat), The Meeting Place, Apple Learning Connection, and several other conferences on World Without Borders. You may sample some of her photography on her website at <http://home.earthlink.net/~davidprice>
Mike Wallinga <mikew@mymac.com> is a Mac-loving Computer Science major, and is currently enjoying summer vacation. Despite that fact, he still hasn't beaten Tomb Raider II, which is probably why next month's column is again going to be late...
Fenton Jones <manavesh@mymac.com> known to his friends as Manavesh, lives in beautiful Santa Cruz, California, and works mostly in landscape construction with some design work on the side. He wants to do more designing in the future to justify spending more money on computer graphics. He's a single father with two girls.
Mark Marcantonio <markm@mymac.com> is a parochial middle school teacher in the Portland, OR area. He spends much of his free class time trying to keep the school's Windows machines running. In the meantime, the Macs at the school just keep going and going... One day he hopes to have Steve Jobs actually buy one of his advertising ideas. In the meantime, he'll keep spending his miniscule paycheck five minutes after getting it.
Barbara Bell <barbara@mymac.com> grew up on the Mac and while she struggles with Windows at work, she glides on her Bondi Blue iMac at night and on weekends (that is, when she can wrest it away from her computer-savvy stepdaughters!). Barbara works as a Meeting/Convention Coordinator for an endoscopic device manufacturer 30 miles north of Boston. What are endoscopic devices? Trust me, unless you're a doctor, you don't want to know! She loves email and helping folks work out their Mac issues, so don't be shy about emailing questions! She can be reached at <barbara@mymac.com>
Ralph J. Luciani <ralph@mymac.com> is Operations Manager at a medium-sized firm in Toronto whose job duties include cleaning toilets, removing garbage, graphic design, and invoicing customers—in that order). Ralph lives in the quaint and picturesque small town of Oakville, Ontario, where he's rabid in his devotion to all things Macintosh, much to the chagrin of his long suffering wife, RoseAnne. Other family members are: Christian, a film major and mini-Mac fanatic; a G3MT; and an SE/30. He uses his own IIvx at work in place of the "other" OS. ("Productivity is important to me!”)
Bob McCormick <mccnow@rocketmail.com> Born and raised in Oregon, he is a "divergent thinker" who used a Mac for the first time in 1985. (If only he had used one of those before he purchased his Commodore 64!) While not a techie himself, he does work with them in his job as a subcontractor for a major PC manufacturer (and yes, they also use Macs!). His first Mac was a PowerBook 150 (school would have been twice as hard without that!), next came a 7100/80, and he now uses a MacTell XB Base Series 604E and dreams of getting a PowerBook again. (Hmmm... WallStreet II, or wait for the new 101s?) Bob recommends Macs, helps friends and family with their Macs, regularly haunts the rumor sites, and tends to "Think Different" all on his own.
Jay Timmer can be reached for comment at <jtimmer@tuna.net>. He has experience using and maintaining both Mac and Linux systems, and is dying to get his hands on a copy of OS X Server.
Beth Lock, <beth@infowest.com> Aquarius, Capricorn Rising, Moon in Libra, Mercury in Aquarius, Venus in Aries, Mars in Pisces. Mary uses two Macintoshes: a rebuilt PowerMac 7200/75 with 60MB RAM, System 8.5, 56K Global Village modem at home; and a PowerMac7200/120 with 96MB RAM, System 8.5, a 4 Gig external hard drive, and Sportster modem at work. She is currently writing a book and trying to buy her first house. She's also a Hospice volunteer and co-founder of Special FX Lighting, Inc. To quote Mary: "My life: I go to work, I go home. I am supremely happy and content. Life has never been better, and I'm grateful daily that I was born of this day and age."
 
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