"blessed with a kind of acid leprechaun sensibility"  St. Paul Pioneer Press Chris Vigliaturo grew up the spiritual son of a poor southern sharecropper on the east side of St.  Paul, Minnesota.  His early interests included violin, debate, and computers.  He tried attending a fundamentalist Christian college in rural Tennessee but left just before it drove him crazy.  The name of the institution was Freed-Hardeman College, which is ironic, because it was not free, it was not hard, and it might not even have been college. After an early attempt at self-employment, Chris went to work for the supercomputer division of Control Data during the last great days of Big Iron and Big Defense.  Run into the ground by pie-in-the-sky academics who could not stick to a schedule to save their life, the division eventually closed and Chris found work developing specialized computers for the Internet. At that computer networking company, Chris weathered the early nineties with its storms of mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, and rightsizing by developing software and administering a corporate network.  Along the way he had the pleasure of interacting with the travelling gurus of just-in-time manufacturing, statistical process control, total quality assurance, quality management, political correctness, and pee-sniffing.  After this exposure to core values and corporate mission statements, Chris is in awe at the inability of office workers to say "labor union."  Chris thought Dilbert was a documentary. Chris is now on the fast track at a Sili Valley networking company which stands to profit enormously from the fees you all are pouring into AOL.  Next to mutual funds, the Internet appears to be the most profitable pyramid scheme going.  Please donate generously to your Internet service provider--Chris's stock options depend on it.