Brian is a veteran of the closed-captioning wars (one of the few veterans in the offline captioning field) and also runs a French language radio station @ frenchrobotradio.com. In his leisure time, Brian writes haughty-sounding third-person descriptions of his other two principal pursuits, apparently hoping that they will invest his actually humdrum life with at least a patina of mystery. Modest by nature, yet proud, Brian is a gifted pianist whose novel tinklings evoke the fevered improvisations of Roderick Usher, all rolled into one.