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In 1985 and 1986, I was the singer in a hard-edged garage band. The band played only 3 times under the names “Snail Death”, “Shuttle Dust”, and “S.D.” The drummer (Slava Prazdny) died in 1987.
From 1989 to 1999, I was the singer in another Bay-Area garage band called Severe Tire Damage, notable for being the first band to perform live on the Internet (so that gives me the obscure distinction of being the first person to ever sing a live-streamed song). More interesting is that we once opened for the Rolling Stones. Yes, the picture on the right is me on Korean television, where I had a Warholian moment of fame back in 1997. The band is currently moribund, following the death of our drummer (Mark Weiser) in 1999. Catch a 2012 interview of the surviving members, on the History of the Internet project, and a more recent 2022 documentary about how we “opened” for the Rolling Stones.
Since 2012, I have written six romance novels under the pseudonyn Sage Ardman.
More recently, I wrote Early Nerds, a collection of short fictional pieces featuring computer nerds I have known.
I am the Director of Vaccine Research Analytics for the National Vaccine Information Center. My work centers on the U.S. Government's VAERS data, a collection of vaccine injury reports going back to 1990. I created the first website that lets people see VAERS (MedAlerts.org), and I did it in 2003, years before the government made its own site (CDC Wonder). I have maintained MedAlerts.org ever since, providing direct public access to this important vaccine-safety data.
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