A former boxing instructor, it took us a while to corner him. Then we couldn't shut him up. He re-branded the Space Needle, wrote a marketing campaign for Visa, and came up with a great caption for a New Yorker cartoon.

He's smart enough to have dined in a foursome with Bill Gates on numerous occasions, foolish enough to get stuck with the check.

Verite. Purveyors of mountainous cupcakes and attitude. If it weren’t for the library tables, free wi-fi and refills, plus great art on the walls, he’d probably only go there 8 times a month.

Collecting old typewriters, pre-1990 laptop computers and royalties from ribald limericks he sells on the internet.

The StemGem from Chef’n. “This nifty, new strawberry huller I named was recently featured on The Today Show and Cooking Light.”