Ray's Vital Statistics
(or, "Info about Ray about which you probably could care less...")If you're really dying to know more about me...
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(or, "Ray's Career Major League Batting Averages")
| Full name: | Raymond Jongwon Kim |
| Nicknames: | Ray (what I usually go by) B.J. (given to me in high school) Ray-Kay (given to me in college) Jukebox (also given to me in college) Daddy Ray (given to me in grad school) Schroeder (given to me by Mom) |
| Ethnic ancestry: | Korean (I have no accent, although someone once told me I have a trace of a New York accent!) |
| Date of birth: | January 15, 1967 (same day as the first Super Bowl!) |
| Place of birth: | Buffalo, NY (the chicken wing capital of the world) |
| Time of birth: | around 7:30 AM (but I'm not a morning person. Go figure.) |
| Height: | 5'11" |
| Weight: | None of your @#$%&*!!! business!!! (I'm working on it, okay?) |
| Credit card #: | Nice try. |
| Hometown: (where I grew up) |
Woodstock, NY (yes, that Woodstock, NY!) |
| Hometown: (adopted) |
Troy, NY
(Yes, I'm a lifelong New Yorker. You gotta problem with that?!?) |
| What I drive: | A '98 bronze-colored Toyota Tacoma 4x4 with an extended cab, fog lights, and a tonneau cover. |
| Education: | High school: Onteora Jr.-Sr. High School, '85 Bachelor's: Syracuse University, '89 Master's: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, '98 |
| Political affiliation: | Officially, a registered Democrat, but I consider myself a political moderate. (I also don't like political conversations at all, so don't get me started. You've been warned!!!) |
| Religion: | United Methodist (but not particularly faithful – although some people will tell you my religion is baseball...) |
| Family: | Parents who still live in Woodstock, a younger brother and sister who both live down in the city (that's New York City, for all you non-New Yorkers) |
| Employment status: | Gainfully (and happily) employed as a computer systems engineer/analyst and technical writer for Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield |
| Marital status: | Married as of October 12, 2002! |
| Soft drinks: | Pepsi (over Coke!), iced tea, lemonade, cranberry-grape juice, skim milk (by the gallon!) |
| Beer: | Yuengling, Saranac, Dundee's Honey Brown, Sam Adams |
| TV shows: | Sheez, like I have time to watch TV. Neverthess, my faves are: M*A*S*H (forever in reruns!), Cheers (ditto), Frasier, Law & Order, Third Watch, Education of Max Bickford, ESPN SportsCenter, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Battlestar Galactica |
| Movies: | Way too many to list, but here's a sampling: The Indiana Jones trilogy, The Star Wars trilogy, Good Will Hunting, Mr. Holland's Opus, Dead Poets Society, Finding Forrester, Major League, Field Of Dreams, A Bug's Life, Forrest Gump, Hoosiers, The Pride Of The Yankees, The Hunt for Red October, Sneakers, The Shawshank Redemption |
| Music: | Classical, classic rock, jazz, big band/swing, blues |
| Composers: | Gustav Holst, Claude Debussy, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Franz von Suppe, George Gershwin, John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Frederic Chopin, Scott Joplin, Aaron Copland, Franz Liszt |
| Rock bands: | KANSAS!!!!!!! (check out their official site and The People of the South Wind), Supertramp, Boston, Moody Blues, Toto, Asia, Journey, Chicago, Eagles |
| Individual artists: | Bruce Hornsby, Billy Joel, Elton John, Chris DeBurgh, Harry Chapin, Don McLean |
| Jazz artists: | Spyro Gyra, Chuck Mangione, Wynton Marsalis, David Sanborn |
| Authors: | Tom Clancy, Stephen King, Terry Brooks, Douglas Adams, John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells |
| Sports: (spectator) |
Baseball, college football, college basketball, college hockey |
| Sports: (participatory) |
Golf, softball, bicycling, walking, bowling |
| Teams: | NY Yankees (26 world titles and counting!) Syracuse Orangemen (GO ORANGE!!!) RPI Engineers (GO RED!!!) |
| Pizza toppings: | Mushrooms, sausage, tomatoes, onion, garlic, green peppers |
| Restaurants: (Local to Albany and/or Troy, unless noted) | Dakota, Mangia, Romano's Macaroni Grill, Brown's Brewing (formerly Troy Pub & Brewery, formerly Brown & Moran), Tai-Pan, Panera Bread, Brook's House of Barbeque (Oneonta, NY), Dinosaur Barbeque (Syracuse, NY) |
| Sub shop: | Genoa Importing Company in Loudonville, NY |
| Coffee: | Starbucks Venti Mocha with a packet of Sugar In The Raw mixed in |
| Pasttimes: | Playing/writing/listening to music, watching sports, playing golf, watching TV, going to movies, reading, writing, playing with the computer, spending time with my wife |
| Places to hang out: | Barnes & Noble, Starbucks, the RPI campus, the SU campus, the Varsity pizza shop in Syracuse, the ballpark (especially during a game), wherever I can find a piano to play, wherever my friends are, wherever my wife is! |