Austin (Texas) K-12 (LC Anderson), Physics (Sigma Pi Sigma), Elec. Engr. (2 NASA Space Shuttle projects, 8-bit microcontrollers, assembly language), Law (what's popular and what's real are quite different), Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.8, 10.8.5, G5 (PPC), MacBook Pro, Saphar (adaptation of cephar -- writer) Koshet (truth, or reality) Saphar Koshet, writer of reality. Serious writing happens every day.
Came to LaTeX needing more features than available with legacy software on legacy hardware; as just one more abandoned by Apple, the quest for something independent from all that commenced.