Tom Galloway is a Silicon Valley-based technical writer and poker player. His adventures include Neil Gaiman telling a Worldcon audience "[You] should burn Tom as a witch," a program item he created raising $10K for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, being schooled by George Takei in Spanish, being Tuckerized in Star Trek as an Admiral, in Justice League as a physicist, and Legion of Super-Heroes as a scientist Brainiac 5 is implied to respect, paying a billionaire's salary for two years running, having Harlan Ellison try to get him dates via public radio, attending a full year of grad school at an Ivy before getting a Bachelor's, presenting a Hugo Award, ordering 250 pounds of Silly Putty, organizing a hack of the Harvard-Yale Game for MIT, modelling for a Frank Wu painting in which he's about to be eaten by Cthulhu, having a joke he wrote printed on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, and many more.