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Les is a long-haired occasionally-utilikilt-wearing computer geek. He was born in New Jersey and lived there & in Massachusetts untill the age of 18 when he moved to Georgia to go to college and has lived there ever since. He is currently living in the Atlanta area with his wife of 10 years and their three cats Mulder, Leeloo & Petaline. He likes to play MMOs with his wife and friends.

He learned about Firefly from an item on Slashdot. He started watching Firefly with the airing of Bushwhacked on Fox and was hooked by Our Mrs. Reynolds (the third episode in air-order). He participated in some of the early postcard campaigns to write Fox and the sponsors to support Firefly, and a little later to try and get SciFi to pick it up.

He is a professional software engineer and have been using Perl as hi primary development language for the last 7 years or so. He has a background in information security (CISSP) and in Unix admin (he has been using Linux since the 0.99pl12 kernel) & networking. He is currently employed by a large bank in the field of quantitative finance.

James is an eighth grade science teacher who hales from Southern California via Michigan. A self-styled science geek, James is never happier than when he is blowing something up in the service of educating his students. Never, that is, except when he is able to spend time with his wife, Carolyn, away from the concerns of either of their jobs.

James has been a fan of the 'verse since its television days and somewhat annoyed his then fiancée when he spent the money to by the DVDs. Money was a little tight then. He has since had the great pleasure to see her hooked on the series, so much so that she started writing for some podcast or other just so that she could spread the word to the masses.

James spends the small amounts of freetime that he calls his own playing poker, reading science fiction novels, assistant coaching for his schools Science Olympiad team, and lately, thanks to his wife, reading unhealthy amounts of Firefly Fanfic.

It's no surprise that friends successfully recommended Firefly to Cornelius, who's a fan of both science fiction and western. Being kinda late to the show - Serenity wasn't in the cinemas anymore - he was happy to find a still active fan community and the Signal to read and hear more about Firefly. Living in the city where the only CSTS events in the whole country are based wasn't that bad either.

Cornelius is studying media engineering in Hamburg and works at the Signal as an audio editor.

Paul works as a young structural engineer in his hometown of Lima in Peru. He first got to know Firefly after watching Summer's remarkable performance in the Terminator series. After being hooked, he explored the Firefly & Serenity universe and became an avid browncoat. On the southern side of the hemisphere it's difficult to find many browncoats, but Paul manages to watch the Firefly DVD's with as many friends as possible, although sometimes Serenity (the BDM) is more appropriate to lure people into the 'verse.

He joined the Signal in 2011 and since then has (mainly) taken the role of audio editor, though he's also helped with some writing, reading, acting and producing. He is still keen and hoping for more Firefly and Serenity content in the future.

Steve Kaszycki joined the Signal crew as a writer for Season 7, in December, 2010. He became a Browncoat on his second viewing of Serenity, and subsequently watched the episodes of Firefly (multiple times each). In his non-Browncoat existence, he is a Phd student in political science. He believes that he has the distinction of being the only person to submit an essay dealing extensively with Serenity in the analytical writing section of the GRE.

'dillo is an international playboy who was mistakenly born into a family of Texas rednecks . His Grandfather dubbed him armadillo before he could talk. This was shortened to 'dillo when he was in high school, around the end of the neolithic period. He left Texas and the U.S. for good in the late '70s and moved to Germany in '82. He doesn't talk about those mysterious missing years.

At various times 'dillo has worked as a bartender, carpenter, cavalry scout, postman, secretary, explosives technician, wooden tie salesman, coin cutter, motorcycle mechanic, ghost writer, and restaurant manager. He currently translates scientific documents for the pharmaceutical industry and fantasy novels.

'dillo now resides in Berlin, Germany. He is a Cthulhu breeder and freelance human being as well as being a single father of a stunningly beautiful and amazingly intelligent young woman. His hobbies include inventing and building odd musical instruments, making UV active kinetic sculpture, and submitting over-produced voicemails to various podcasts. If you ask him how many didgeridoos he owns he will get embarrassed and change the subject.

'dillo has a lifelong addiction to the printed word, particularly hard science fiction. He first heard of firefly through the Slice of Scifi podcast, where he does a short weekly audio segment about Sweetleaf, the fairy bandleader who plays the bed music for his voicemails, as well as the pixies, werewolves, gnomes and other assorted folks who work at/hang around his studio.

Not a huge fan of sci-fi, westerns, or even a regular watcher of television, Bindiya became a Browncoat proper in 2010 while discovering one the characters of Firefly through an online role-playing site. The depth of character prompted her to borrow a friend's collection of the series and movie, after which she could not find it humanly possible to shut up about the damn things. The comics, analytical books and official scrapbooks, and even teas fashioned after certain characters were soon to follow. She is now an eager recruiter and an enthusiastic member of the fandom, though still hoping to find more Kansas City-area Browncoats to fashion together into a real group. In the meanwhile she'll be happy contributing to the signal as the new Newshound and voice of News From the 'Verse.

On a more personal level she is a Gemini and enjoys rum, skydiving, WoW, and sushi. She is also a big costume nerd and loves cosplaying.

Most memorable fandom moment: stepping on Sean Maher's foot. Oops.

Jutta was born 1971 in Germany. After the usual ... kindergarden, school, being an annoying teenager ... she went on to university to study English and History but later dropped out to do more interesting stuff. She worked as software developer, as shopkeeper, as farm helper, as translator, as bike courier and is currently working as a shop assistant in an organic foodstore and as tutor for students (someone has to teach them to misbehave, after all). She also works as freelance writer and has published several short stories in German magazines. Currently she is working on a sciene fiction novel for young adults. Jutta lives in a house sharing community with six other adults, a place that has become her Serenity.

She has been a Browncoat ever since she bought the Firefly DVD set more or less spontaniously after seeing a fanmade Firefly music video on the internet.

Kari grew up as a typical Army brat - born in Utah and spending the next sixteen years of her life in Alabama, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The bug to move every three to four years has become an ingrained personality trait and since graduating from college, she has lived in Mississippi, again in Colorado, Oregon, California, and finally back to Oregon. She currently works as a lab rat for a large-ish biotech company in Eugene, Oregon. In her spare time, she enjoys computer and board games, reading, sewing, hanging out on the beach, watching movies, and yoga.

Kari became aware of Firefly through a couple of co-workers who were HUGE Buffy and Angel fans. Unfortunately, due to the Fox Network's creative scheduling, she managed to miss every single episode. Several years later, while hanging out with some friends, she was introduced to the phenomenon that is Firefly . Instantly hooked, she borrowed her friend’s DVDs, watched the remainder of the episodes, returned the DVDs and bought her own.

Kari’s involvement with The Signal began just before the release of the first show. Having been friends with Les for a year or two (it’s kinda fuzzy), she instantly volunteered to help in any way she possibly could as soon as she found out what was going on. Somehow, she became a host and has been loving every minute of the process.

Miranda is living the high life in the northern part of Kentucky. Yes, she wears shoes and no, she doesn't have a southern twang. Though she does admit to saying y'all when the mood strikes.

Never a Buffy or Angel fan, Miranda came to love Firefly before she knew it was a Joss Whedon creation, even before it aired for the first time. After picking up her Fall Preview guide, as she does every year, this futuristic western style show caught her eye. That plus the fact that it was to air just before a show that she would be taping anyway, made her one of the fans who could honestly say they were there from the very beginning.

Miranda spends her limited free time reading fiction novels and waiting impatiently for the newest installments of her favorite television shows (Bones, LOST, & Chuck). She is extremely grateful to have been included in podcast production and to be a part of the fantastic Browncoat community.

Craig Kurumada became a Browncoat after seeing Firefly on a recommendation from a local, independent video store. Already a Buffy/Angel fan, it took no time at all to become quite obsessed with the 'Verse. Over several years, he has rallied the Browncoats in the rural Redwood Coast of Northern California, based in Arcata, Humboldt County (yes, THAT Humboldt County), California.

Craig has two B.A.s in German and Linguistics and loves to geek out in all manner of things linguistical, historical, musical and anthropological. He is doing his best to show Browncoats how easy it is to pronounce Mandarin.

Oh, the clarinet picture? He plays in an international band called "[Chubritza]," playing the Bulgarian and Macedonian bagpipes, Croatian prim tamburitza, Romanian tsimbl mic and singing in quite a few languages.

He is very happy and proud to join the Signal crew.

Andy, (aka verseandy), lives with his family in the UK and works in IT for a large American car company, the one with a fondness for blue ovals...

He missed Firefly and then Serenity the first time around but following a recommendation, a review on Amazon and a whim, purchased the box set and BDM and watched them as quickly as life permitted. He was hooked. He finally got to see the BDM on the big screen at a CSTS screening in Warwick in 2008 where he met Nick and the Sending a Wave crew.

Away from The Signal Andy is the Assistant Producer for Upside Down and Halfway to Happyland, co-host for an internal work podcast, and member of the SFX crew on Buffy and Angel Between the Lines, BBtLS, ABtLS. He also does occasionally voice work on various different podcasts.

Andy also produces and co-hosts the Being Human Cast, a podcast all about the TV show Being Human.

Andy, listens to many different podcasts on his daily commute, and enjoys most sci-fi genre shows; some still on air others on DVD. Some of his favourites including Babylon 5, BSG, Red Dwarf, Being Human, Dr Who, and obviously the works of Joss Whedon...

Jill Arroway grew up on the Scottish island of Stornaway, where she made a meagre living sewing lobsters onto the chief fishmonger's buttocks. Believing this was not the life for her, she left in search of wild adventure and screaming. She spent several years in Transylvania trying to get bitten by a vampire, an ambition which she sadly failed to achieve at the time, although ironically she did achieve it many years later, after she'd moved back to England and started eating garlic pizzas. Her favourite hobbies include computer science, experimental mathematics, and dressing up as a mermaid and luring sailors to their deaths.

Jill is the editor and primary architect of the Signal, and once upon a time was the captain of this crew. She is also an author, classical composer and has been known to write and perform in a prog rock band. For a long time, her home was a disguised as a vending machine in Victoria coach station, England. Then - disaster - a freak tornado rendered the gyroscopic stabiliser unusable. Stranded in what at the time seemed to be the twentieth century, although it later turned out to have been the twenty first, she had no choice but to settle down and try to take over the world.

Oh, and here's some of my music: [Dreams of the Seventh Star] [Merci, Mon Amie] [Entelechy]