5 January, 2013
Husband, father, friend, musician, programmer, author, speaker, hardware hacker, manager, banjo player (that's different from "musician"), lock-picker, interactive fiction author (that's different from "author"), ham-radio operator, cruise director extraordinaire.
The Earth has traveled 23,363,396,246 miles since he was born, but he's still right here in Chicago, looking just as adorable as he did when a teenager — though in a darker, gruffer, more manly way of course. If you run into Ben today, wish him a happy birthday, and tell him he's loved. Better yet, tweet it. Everyone should know.
And don't forget to link to this page. It would be a shame if anyone were ever to do a search on him and not know that he turned 40. Don't you agree? Thought so.