Applied before I read the bit about being Texan
Still worth a read, if only for amusement.
Is HTC in Austin? Would be interesting to also live in the same city as Warren Spector, who created Wing Commander and then co-wrote Deus Ex with Sheldon Pacotti. If you haven't played Deus Ex, then go and install it and see you in three weeks time, when you've read every newspaper, listened to every conversation and played the non-lethal/stealth run.
They don't make games like that anymore, well... they do, it's called AH.
And of course, NASA down the road, yes beam me up Skuzzy...
sadly, running Vista and using my Win7 laptop about three times a year puts me out of the running perhaps.