[1] He entered the University of Maryland at College Park in 1981 as a freshman with an undecided major between English and computer science.
[4] He and Kristin, his future spouse, met in 1986 when he started at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as a software programmer.
[5] Keeping English as a side interest, he wrote "The Empty City", a science-fiction short story.
Thus actual rules were invented for Icehouse, then plastic pyramid pieces were made to play the game.
[4] He then went on to a brief career as a game programmer at Magnet Interactive Studios, where he created that company's only entry to the market, Icebreaker.