Full name: Daniel Alfred Hassler-Forest

Favored Cuisine: Homemade Italian

Education: M.A. in Film Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1999

Preferred pet: Pietje (female black feline)

Annoying habits: neurotically cataloguing video collection, installing endless system extensions on other people's Macs, total inability to resist discounted videos or CDs

Occupation: text editor and webmaster for Tryllian

Nerdiest hobby: fiddling around with Mac software

Aspirations: nabbing myself a Ph.D. in Film Studies

Music most likely to be found in my discman: Tom Waits, Barenaked Ladies, Paul Simon, Steve Earle

All-time favorite movies (in no particular order): Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb, GoodFellas, The Godfather Part II, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Empire Strikes Back, Ed Wood, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Seven Samurai