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Bob is part of a wonderful family unit consisting of himself, Anni Spring and Karl-Magnus. 

He is a University of Minnesota graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and was working on a Computer Science degree when he met up with J.River which was a mighty small outfit at the time. He created a small stir in small circles with the DEJAVU terminal emulator which forms the core of the ICE.TCP and ICE.TEN packages. Nearly 22 years later, he's still there! 

Bob is a past member of the board of the North Country Coop (NCC) and is also a working member. NCC is a HUGE asset to the community. If you are in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area please support NCC.  NCC  was selected Best Twin Cities Food Coop by City Pages in 2000 (and there is plenty of competition in Minnesota which has by far the largest number of food Coops in the country).

He gets a good workout (40 miles a week ) biking to and from work and enjoys playing volleyball with Karl during the winter months.

His favorite music is that of the German composer Gustav Mahler however he enjoys many other musical genres.

Current Favorite movies/series: Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore 2004), SCTV (this is 3cp1), As You Like it (1936, Elisabeth Bergner, wow.), The Prisoner (1968, great psychological thrillers), Sense and Sensibility (1995, intense cineamatography, super cast), Citizen Kane (1941, yup our "democracy" still works that way), The Secret of Roan Inish (great for kids and adults), Popeye (Robin Williams, Shelly Duvall; Robert Altman, Dir) and Chicken Run (2000, Claymation Rocks!).

Favorite personalities and writers are Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Jim Northrup (Walking the Rez Road and Rez Road Follies), Winona LaDuke (Last Standing Woman), Cornel West (Race Matters), Howard Zinn (Peoples History of the United States), Noam Chomsky (What Uncle Sam Really Wants), Arundhati Roy and Robert McChesney (Rich Media, Poor Democracy).