Harley Jones first discovered geekdom by dismantling portable TVs and wiring them into his GI Joe base. He began programming at age 10 (on a C-64) and was an assistant computer teacher at the local university while still in middle school. When most kids were guffawing at Saturday Night Live, Harley was hi-jacking the family TV for Doctor Who on public television. He's a huge Tolkien-ite and classic cartoon fan. He earned an English Lit degree (Studio Art minor) and used it (successfully) to break into the exciting world of IT consulting.

He leans towards authors with middle initials (Robert E Howard, Phillip K Dick, J R R Tolkien, George R R Martin, Stephen E King, etc). He reads comics and plays role-playing games. He dreams of talking apes who ride the sand-worms of a magical kingdom which resides in his bottom dresser drawer and is ruled by fluffy little clouds.

Like most people of quality, Harley is a geek. He's married to a closet-geek (she won't admit it, but she can quote every word of Buffy), and is raising two mini-geeks (fun-sized!) Perhaps his proudest geek moment was when his son crawled into bed and asked to watch TV. Harley asked, "Sponge-Bob?" and his son (who could barely talk at the time) squeaked, "Doctor Who, please."