"Steamboat" Ed "Machine gun" House(not real name), is a massive force of nature. He can kill or maim you with the things he makes, and houses vampires in his backyard. He is metal, so watch your ass, or something hot and steely will slice it off. Also, he's a real stand up guy. Ya heard?

"Crazy" Ed is without question one of the most amazing people I've encountered in life. When I was asked by the Hackers Conference for the 10 most important people to invite, Ed was likely a high 4-5 or maybe 6th (and I have to be very selective at this suggestion). He's largely self-taught not as a computer geek but in mechanical skills: milling, tooling, titanium welding, etc., and he grew up in a life (his words) "a trust fund baby" [a life most people lust for]. He proposed a $50K prize for a university physics dept. project for a remotely piloted re-entry vehicle made for reject space shuttle tiles during the early 1980s to study communication during re-entry ionization. We was part of a ranked robotic combat team (Robotica, Robot Wars, ...(all tm)). He has a lot of ideas, some of them good. He's at times a bit scattered at times. He just needs a bit more focus (he knows), theory, and critical thinking. Right now he's into steam engines and Burning Man art cars. Ed got "Crazy Ed" from his one time Isla Vista tenants Danny Marks and Ricky Hoffman when they introduced me to him.