More about the co-maintainers of this website than you ever wanted to know...
Judith Grunberger is a technical writer at
McCabe & Associates in Columbia, Maryland. She enjoys listening and dancing to industrial/EBM music, backpacking, playing with her cat, and body modification. Judith plans to move to Texas sometime before the end the century. Maybe. She's a hopeless neat-freak who actually enjoys cleaning, doing laundry, etc. ... as long as it's appreciated.
Judith used to play Jyhad/V:tES regularly; she and her roommates hosted a weekly playgroup at their apartment in Elkridge, Maryland. Despite her slacking off in the past, she hopes to put a lot more work into these pages in the future. But she hasn't. -mjll
Oh yeah, and call her "Judy."
You can learn more about Judith at her home page.
Mark Langsdorf is software designer at Advanced
Micro Devices, Inc in Austin. He enjoys
wargaming, role-playing, fencing, playing racquetball, reading, and
playing on his computer. He used to enjoy spending time with his girlfriend,
but now he's not enjoying the search for a new one. He's an all-around nice guy who will go out of his way to help his friends, but he has little patience for whiners and procrastinators.
Mark's involvement with Jyhad/V:tES has waxed and waned over the years, especially when large parts of his playgroup moved to DC and joined Judith's playgroup. (Not as a reaction to Mark - they had to go to grad school. Honest). He's now part of a strong and growing group in Austin, and plans to update these pages more often now that he has his over-powered computer.
You can learn more about Mark at his home page.
Judith and Mark met in the ninth grade at Montgomery Blair High School. They became good friends when they decided in tenth-grade biology that neither of them really liked the alternate choices for lab partners. It was then that Mark started calling Judith "Judith," even though she hated it and wanted people to call her "Judy," dammit. The name stuck despite her protests (though most people still call her Judy...) In retaliation, Judith started calling Mark "Marcus Farcus." That name did not stick, which is just as well, because it sounds pretty stupid.
Judith and Mark went on lunchtime pizza runs together and double-dated at their senior prom. Mark used Judith as a pillow in Mrs. Escatell's precalculus class and played with her hair in Mr. Pham's physical chemistry class. Judith brought her drunk (now ex) boyfriend to one of Mark's pool parties. Mark physically removed Judith's brother from the room once because he was bothering them while they were working on a school project, and Judith's mom yelled at him.
After Mark and Judith graduated from high school and found the dating prospects at their respective colleges to be completely lacking, they decided that they were exactly what the other was looking for. They kept up a serious relationship for 2 1/2 years in which they did all the fun things that college-age couples usually do, including arguing over whether they would own a cat when they got married. However, the relationship crumbled one warm May evening in an incident involving an English paper, a queen-size futon, an empty gas tank, and a Pizza Hut. Despite the fact that Judith ate the rest of Mark's sausage pizza that fateful night, Mark and Judith are still best friends. Good enough friends to share a web site, anyhow.
Now, shoo! We told you it was more than you wanted to know. We did. Don't blame us. -mjll.
Original Text by Judith C. Grunberger. Obsolete text removed, and snotty comments added by Mark Langsdorf.