Nalin A. Ratnayake currently lives in Quartz Hill, California. In his words:
I enjoy writing, history, theatre, hiking, and photography. I was born in the Northwest, which I still maintain is the best part of the world, and have lived all my life in the American West. From Washington and Idaho I moved to Arizona (initially a climate and culture shock) and then California. The desert and the southland have grown on me though, and I now love the southwest culture and climate.
When I’m not otherwise occupied, you can find me exploring LA and its surrounding cities and neighborhoods, hiking in the amazing variety of terrain within an hour radius of my house, and dabbling in amateur photography and writing whenever I can. I am also heavily involved in theatre – as a producer, director, actor, writer, and avid audience member.
You can follow Nalin’s various engineering, photographic, and theatrical misadventures on Twitter, where he posts as @quantumcowboy.
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Hilary Gan writes her columns from Mesa, Arizona. In her words:
A step-by-step guide to winning my heart:
1. Be absolutely brilliant at something. I’m not totally picky about what that something is, but let’s just say x = WoW doesn’t qualify.
2. Dedicate your entire life to said pursuit.
3. Self-medicate as a remedy for the aloneness caused by your brilliance and the sad, incontrovertible knowledge that you will never fully perfect your art
4. Maintain a five o’clock shadow
5. Carry a cane with a flame decal
6. Drive a motorcycle
7. Somehow manage to offset telling horrible truths directly to people’s faces by being sidesplittingly funny
8. Be okay with the fact that I will only ever be capable of loving fictional characters
You can read more of Hilary’s writing on her personal blog.
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Ryan Johnson whiles away the time in Pullman, Washington. In his words:
Actually just kidding. He has nothing to say, because he hasn’t submitted a blurb yet. What a lazy bastard. If you know him, please give him a hard time until he does.