Well that was a good therapeutic laugh!


ISJ: What's your favorite food?

Doellman: Hmm ... possibly wild salmon.

ISJ: Who inspires you the most?

Doellman: My wife.

ISJ: If you could choose a new career, what would it be?

Doellman: Highly compensated, well-regarded dilettante. Unfortunately, there are no openings.

ISJ: If you could have dinner with one famous person, who would it be?

Doellman: Arthur C. Clarke, Elizabeth I, Robert Heinlein, William Shakespeare, Maria Mitchell, Robert Browning, Martha Jane Canary, John XXIII, Joseph Smith, Martin Luther, Adam Smith, the Buddha, Hildegarde of Bingen, Thomas Jefferson, Jesus of Nazareth, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Red Skelton, Karl Marx, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Gráinne Ni Mháille, Jonathan Swift, Minnie Howard - sorry, I can't pick just one, but I could put together one heckuva party.

ISJ: Any regrets?

Doellman: No, not really. I wish I was better at mathematics, but that's not a regret.

ISJ: What's your favorite appliance?

Doellman: In the kitchen, a good sharp knife. Otherwise, a computer and a sledge hammer to hit it with.

ISJ: What was the last good book you read?

Doellman: Brian Garfield's "Thousand Mile War" or Laura Berton's "I Married the Klondike." Take your pick.

ISJ: What's your favorite sport?

Doellman: Fencing, marksmanship, and archery. Individually, not all at once.

ISJ: What was the best day of your life?

Doellman: Oct. 6, 1973, ranks right up there with Feb. 11, 1945.

ISJ: The worst day?

Doellman: April 14, 1981, the day my mother died.

ISJ: What was the best piece of advice you ever received?

Doellman: There are lots more than just one: Do the best you can and don't worry about it. Skedaddle while they reload. If you don't try you'll never know if you can. Don't take yourself too seriously. Be nice to folks you meet on the way up, because you'll meet them again on the way down. If not you, who? Eat what's set before you. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. It's never too late to mutate.

ISJ: What's the best and worst invention ever patented?

Doellman: The computer.

ISJ: What is your guilty pleasure?

Doellman: I really can't feel guilty about pleasure - I was raised Roman Catholic.

ISJ: What chores do you do around the house?

Doellman: We share the chores, but I usually do the cooking.

ISJ: What was the first album you ever owned?

Doellman: I think that it was about the origin of the Lone Ranger. It was a 78.

ISJ: What's your idea of the perfect vacation?

Doellman: No cell phones, no e-mail, interesting people, places and things - all shared with my wife.

ISJ: What is your worst personal trait?

Doellman: Untidiness. I know where it is, but no one else can find it.

ISJ: What is your favorite musical era?

Doellman: I like folk music, folk rock, jazz, blues, some classical (especially Bach, both J.S. and P.D.Q.), some "classic rock" and others. You figure it out.

ISJ: What is your ideal "last meal?"

Doellman: A progressive dinner about a hundred years long, with the meals held on each continent of each planet in the solar system.

ISJ: What is your favorite entertainer?

Doellman: Any good author.