A First Effort

by

Tom Carman

Me, me, all about me.

Thomas Edward Carman (named in part for my maternal grandfather Edward Fogg)

Born in Kentucky in 1958; Dad was drafted shortly after college, and was stationed at Fort Knox.
Earliest childhood memories were at age four, in Denver, CO, where Dad went to Denver Seminary.

I 've lived in New Jersey most of my life, aside from a few years in Massachusetts in the late 60's.
Four years of higher education at  The King's College in Briarcliff Manor, NY (1976-1980) (now located in NYC)
A few more courses at Salem Community College, Carney's Point, NJ: BASIC, COBOL, computer history and statistics.

I've been a substitute teacher (so-so hours, lousy pay without a teaching certificate, obnoxious kids), and a convenience store trainee manager (worse hours and barely-better pay).  Some other jobs were at nuclear generating stations, mostly in construction, and at the DuPont Experimental Station in Delaware.
My current position is Technical Assistant III at Educational Testing Service , where I have been for nearly 10 years.

Hobbies/interests:

collecting comic books (just for reading, really; comic book investment seems to have been sort of a fad)
        mostly Marvel; occasional good DC books; a limited selection of other publishers
computer games - Tomb Raider I-II-III-Last Revelation, Civilization II and III, Colonization, Imperialism, Omikron, The Sims, some shoot-em-ups.  One of these days, I'll get around to playing The Longest Journey.
role-playing games - especially Hero (Champions). also D&D, GURPS, In Nomine, and Feng Shui recently.
SCUBA diving
science fiction - Stargate SG1, Enterprise, Farscape, books and an occasional movie
building and upgrading home computers
Here are a few links I have bookmarked.

And here is some fun stuff I got in the e-mail recently.  I shared it around the office for a good laugh.

This document is a bunch of "fortune cookie" sayings that I swiped from herdthinners.com (a fun site).

And some parody songs and other silly stuff.

This is my web page for the Princeton Gamers Union. And my Hero System downloads page.

Click here to go to my Space 1889 game pages.
 
 

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