1. He's my father.

   2. Actually it's Russian but, oddly enough, I'm mostly Irish.

   3. One son. Gregory.

   4. Jennifer and I have been married since 1993. She does something at Boston University's Scientific Computing and Visualization department that I still don't understand.

   5. No, not around here, but she's really quite well known in Japan.

   6. It's kind of a generic Middle Atlantic accent. I was born in Chicago and raised (mostly) in Rhode Island, so I don't really sound as though I'm from anywhere.

   7. Designed them myself.

   9. Yes, it hurts.

  10. No thanks, I don't drink.

  11. Nope, it's a man's name.

  12. Straight back and to the left.

  13. The Red Sox and The Cubs. (Sigh.)

  14. Ernie Banks.*
  
  15. Earl Grey. Hot. Milk.

      * Actually, no one has ever asked me who my childhood hero was, but I wanted it known just the same.