Character sheet:
Name: Joe Szilagyi
Bio: IT/computing professional living in Seattle, Washington; married; one cat.
Class: Geek
Level: 14
First appearance: 1975
Weapon: Internets
Skills: sextuple-spec in information technology, comics, games, science-fiction, fantasy, and the Internets.
Unlocked Achievements:
High scores in ISP, web services, and back-end administration across three jobs.
Read Wikipedia before it was popular; Transmetropolitan before it was Vertigo; played D&D before 2nd Edition, on Internets before the WWW.
Used to beat Metroid on NES with Justine Bailey code in under 10 minutes.
My true biography, as transcribed by Andy Khouri, circa 2001 AD:
Joe — or “Joe Sizzle,” as he is known — actually created the internet. He explained this to me in a very clear, unslurred voice, and he did so for many hours. I honestly did not have the mental capacity to grasp exactly how he created the internet, but trust me, he did. It’s his, and we all owe him a little piece of our souls. I hope that by honoring him here, he will forgive me for my sins and allow me to continue using (abusing?) his property. Before Joe created the internet, he was a regular little kid in 1950s Colombia, riding his scooter around town with a slingshot in his pocket and a twinkle in his eye. On October 25th, 1955, Joe was struck by lightning. He survived, and there was absolutely no change in his body, behaviour or in his thinking. On October 25th, 1956, Joe slipped in the shower and hit his head on the toilet seat and lapsed into a coma for forty years. On October 25th, 1996, Joe woke up with the idea for the internet, even though by then it had already been created. It’s a real shame. Today Joe lives in Connecticut with his girlfriend Andi and lots of comic books.
Alternate ending biography, circa 10,191 AG:
Stuff to think about:
“Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.” — Rod Serling.
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.” — Issac Aasimov.
About my politics:
I was born a United States citizen, but in Romania. I consider myself American first. Next, this post is about what my politics are these days. This post here is about where I think they’re heading in the United States, if you care.
What I do:
I work with some high-tech stuff but my dream is to write fiction for novels and comic books.
Site notes:
The tesla coil images on my banner as of April 2010 is from January, 1932. The Xbox achievement generator is awesome.
Contacting me: click here.
