6-Foot Blonde Got Me Into Data Science!

How I got into data was, as most of the men would understand, I fell in love with a 6-foot blonde. That's the short answer. So I was working as a mechanical engineer in New York City, and I started dating a Norwegian woman. We're now married, kids and all that stuff. Anyway, as all Norwegian women do, they love their country. She moved back to Norway. We had a long-distance relationship. It was $15 a minute to call Norway back then. That's a lot of money. And I could— this could be very long, but I'll keep it short. Anyway, because I wanted to save money and because I wanted to stay in touch with the woman that I love, one of my first claims to fame was that I'm the 10th person in the world ever to use the internet as a phone call. And that started me on this whole nerd, IT, data thing. And I was just an engineer that played with natural gas pipes in Brooklyn. So 6-foot blondes is the reason why I am where I am today. I'm just honest about it.