Focus On: Roman

A look at your friendly neighborhood Web slinger for The Screen Savers.

Name: Roman Victor Loyola

Job title: Web producer

Homepage: Roman's Empire

Hometown: Born in Cleveland. Raised in Union City, California.

Favorite website: The Couch: A Retrospective. (Yeah, it's my own site, but it was reviewed by TechTV long before I even started working here!)

First computer: Mac SE

College/university: CCSF, Chabot College, and Cal State Hayward.

Former life: Web editor, magazine editor, project leader, newspaper production artist, shoe salesman, toy store cashier, cookie maker, T-shirt maker, video store cashier, newspaper deliverer.

Favorite piece of technology: The remote control.

Favorite author and book: My favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, but I tend to read magazines and Web zines. I don't have the attention span for novels.

Favorite movie or TV show: Midnight Cowboy (movie); The Late Show With David Letterman (TV)

Favorite quote: "I've got nothing but love for you when I spit on you." Olympic champion Amy Van Dyken (thanks Rosie).

Motto: "WHAT!?!"

Soul Searching

What is your most marked characteristic? I wear a size 7.5 hat.

What do you consider your greatest achievement? Achieving six degrees of separation with Kevin Bacon. Getting married.

When and where were you happiest? June 12, 2000.

What is your greatest regret? Sleeping through my high school junior year of American history.

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Drinking a Tuti-Fruti Jarritos after a walk through the Mission.

What is your most treasured possession? My wedding band.

Where would you like to live? In a house.

What is your greatest fear? Choking on Crunch Berry cereal.

What trait do you most deplore in yourself? Shyness.

What is the trait you most deplore in others? Not using your car's blinkers.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Eating vegetables.

What is your greatest extravagance? Playing craps.

What is your favorite journey? The one to the bathroom after drinking a 32-ounce soda while watching a three-hour movie.

What is it that you most dislike? The "inappropriate" use of quotation marks.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to refer to himself in the third person.

What is the quality you most like in a woman? Knowing that tied baseball games go into extra innings, not overtime.

What do you most value in your friends? They laugh at my jokes.

If you were to come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? Internet search spider.

If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? A stray dog.

How would you like to die? In a blaze of glory.

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