Vital Statistics
That's right. Here's some random Joe Data:
Names
Like God, I am called by many names. (Unlike God, I don't
know how to smite.) Here are some of them, along with some
pitiful explanations:
- Joseph Andrew Calzaretta
- This is my given name. I was given this name by my parents. Joseph
is my dad's dad and Andrew is my mom's dad and Calzaretta is my dad's dad's
dad's etc. etc.
- Saltine
- What the heck is Saltine anyway?
This is a self-inflicted name. Years ago I had a friend who kept referring
to herself as Talesin in all her messages. Talesin the Bold, Talesin the Daring,
etc. So I started referring to myself as Saltine (an anagram of Talesin) in
my messages to her. Saltine the Italicized, Saltine the Pork Substitute, etc.
I liked the name so much, I kept it.
Now I use Saltine to represent me in lots of different ways, not the least of
which is this web site.
- Joey the Two-Headed Baby Weasel
- Oh boy, I don't even know what to say about this one.
Just one of the reasons I don't want to be called Joey to begin with.
I get too carried away.
Places
I have had several homes. (These links lead outside my home page)
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Right now, I live at the 9 Ashland Street Communinium in Somerville. My wife Stephanie and I,
along with two mutual friends, Renate Harrison and Jennifer Mills, purchased a three-family house in June 2004
and converted it to condominiums. Yay! I should make a more detailed home page with pictures.
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Before that I lived in Pearl Harbor with Jen Mills and Alexis Elwood. It was named that because, well, it was
on Pearl Street in Cambridge and close to the Charles River. And we had no sense of political correctness.
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Another home is
MIT , otherwise known as the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
I spend most of my time working for MIT Information Services & Technology.
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Before that I was a graduate student, and I lived in a graduate dorm called
Edgerton.
As an undergrad, I lived in
MacGregor , in
E-entry . Those were cool places, on which I look back fondly. Fondly on which I look back? Something like that.
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I grew up in Staten Island, New York.
Pictures of Me
Here are some pictures of Stephanie and me on a New Years' Day 2005 train ride!
Here are some pictures of me, taken in September of 2002.
Here's a picture of me as Saltine (1999-ish). Note the stoic-osity.
Here's Ninjoe (apparently), circa 1997.
This goofy picture, 1995-ish, is wide-angled so be warned.
I was sitting too close to the camera.
Let's pile into the Way-Back Machine! High school graduation, circa 1992.
Here is the MIT beaver (1999), busy as a... well, you know.
Boy, it's hot in that getup!