Laurence Simon is a 30-something technical support drone for the webhosting division of a local ISP. He lives in Houston, TX with his wife and four three two cat. In the urban paradise they call home, he gardens, grills, bakes excellent bread in his bread machine, and slowly dips further into insanity.

He is the founder of Carnival of the Cats and runs a disturbing number of live catcams.

If you want to hear what he sounds like, why not check his daily podcast for some amusing 100-word stories. Every week, the Weekly Challenge brings in other writers to come up with their own stories based on a topic of his choosing.

You can find him wandering around Second Life as Crap Mariner, a deranged windup surrounded by an aura of whirling gears who lives in a massive clocktower on Edloe island, overlooking Nowhereville and the rest of the Five Islands Group.

Oh, and he's so full of crap, his eyes are brown.