Fave modern car values: Cooled seats, good iPod integration, heated steering wheel, Bluetooth, Satellite Radio, Actual Fuel Efficiency

What I'm Watching, Listening To: Recent TV: MythBusters, Top Gear, NBC's The Office, How I Met Your Mother, Pushing Daisies, American Gladiators on ESPN Classic. Music: Coldplay, Editors, Beatles, Muse, The Killers, Dave Matthews.

I grew up in the Canadian fishing village of Lobster Ball, Nova Scotia, where I developed an intense love for outboard motor fishing boats. I was a pretty good writer, so I figured I'd combine my two loves into a career in outboard motor fishing boat journalism. After graduating from college, I quickly discovered that Mercury Outboard Monthly and Evinrude & Driver were struggling. So I sold out and wrote about cars instead. I'll be forever shamed. Sorry Dad.

Actually, that's mostly not true. I am Canadian, though, and you can replace the boat stuff with cars. In the beginning, my goal was to write for one of the big car magazines, but being a part of Edmunds' cutting-edge online coverage is infinitely more exciting. I graduated from Pepperdine University as a journalism major and a certified newspaper junky, and from there tried to write automotive reviews and features for whomever would publish my stuff. I look forward to these next few potentially tumultuous years in the car industry, as alternative fuels and Internet technology continue to dramatically change what we drive and the way we read/write about them.