I got a nice email today from the fellow at O’Reilly who’s in charge of condensing my article for the print edition. He needs an author bio line to go under the article. Hmm. I’m stumped. Which way to go?

There’s the painfully banal:

John Riney is a technologist and experimenter living in Charleston, SC.

To the desperate:

John Riney is a guy living in Charleston, SC that would like your phone number, if you are modestly hot and don’t hate nerds.

To the incomprehensible:

John Riney owes me 20 bucks.

Dear Interweb, do you have any suggestions?