Fifteen years ago, long before I started working for the SCI FI Channel, I was on the SCI FI Channel.

SCI FI Buzz, which was then the Channel's equivalent of 60 Minutes, did a short feature highlighting me on the occasion of the first anniversary of Science Fiction Age magazine. It was taped at ConFrancisco, the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention in San Francisco, and ran in December of that year.



I don't know how you'll feel about watching this, but I wince a little, not just because there's a little bit more of me, but also because there's a little bit less.

More, because I was heavier then. Less, because I was trying so hard to present myself as a calm talking head and not bounce around in my chair or talk with my hands that I seem more subdued than my usual bouncy self. I was trying to be too cool about it all. I appear too coy and sedate, and with the quiet manner of speech on display here, I remind myself of Jason Alexander playing George Costanza.

You might feel differently. In fact, I hope you feel differently. But however you feel, the clip is too good a piece of history not to share.