...was born in BC. That makes him either ridiculously old, or simply Canadian.

He was raised in northern Maine, which leaves a kid with truckloads of spare time. In his youth, Roderick was occasionally spotted on the slow end of a football pitch but more often at the fast end of a chessboard. Surely you've heard of the notorious Kimball maneuver, in which one opens a chess match by tossing the king's pawn into the air such that it lands, butter side up, on the king's fourth rank.

At age 17, he started juggling, and he hasn't stopped since (and, boy, are his arms tired!) Roderick went to college twice. The first time for art. The second time for physics. He left both times for the same reason - to combine art and physics by juggling.

Since 1991, he has been performing and teaching juggling and related forms in Portland, ME, Washington, DC, and New York, NY. In the fall of '98 he and dancer Emily Crews directed Spheres, a show of juggling, dance, and music in Washington, DC. In the fall of '01, he played Jack in The Stinky Cheese Man, directed by Nicole Boyer Cochran. In the fall of Skylab, he just watched.

These days Rod enjoys making music with his band, The Maestrosities, grokking puzzles, and juggling, but mostly life is for being with friends. Rod's personal "Guide for the Perplexed" would have to include reliable metric conversion tables, and an explanation for where all his socks have gone.