Name: Jeremy Blosser
Homepage: Well, http://jblosser.firinn.org/, but I got too tired of working with web stuff for a living to really keep up my own page. Go read Schlock Mercenary instead.
SMGL Page: You're looking at it.
IRC Nick(s): emrys
Role in SMGL: Elected Project Lead in 2007 and 08, AKA the guy with the whip. I also am the current de facto primary sysadmin for the project's donated server resources. And I maintain a few spells, and am working to fill out the rough edges for large installation support.
Age: Born 1976/04/05.
Location/Country: TX/USA
When did you first start using Linux and why? I had my first user account sometime in maybe 1996 and my first local box in 1998. "Why" was because I used Unix in college and believed it was the right way to do things, so having a free Unix on my own PCs was obviously the way to go.
How long have you been using the SMGL distribution? Since Oct 2004.
What piqued your interest in SMGL initially? I started with RedHat around version 4 something, and that was fine for a while. Eventually I got tired of them adding more and more base configs/etc. that I didn't like, so I started looking around for a distro that fit me better. I tried all the major players, SuSE, Debian, Slackware, etc., but nothing really agreed with me. Eventually I somehow ended up trying Mandrake and found that despite their focus on newbies they actually had a pretty solid distro underneath it all for power users. I ran that for several years, customizing my builds to a silly degree (including such insanity as building boxes from the ground up using nothing but tweaked source RPMs) and dreaming of the day I'd have time to do my own distro with real-time availability of the latest and greatest source packages instead of the silly "distro X version Y" treadmill.
Of course at some point Mandrake inevitably changed their base configs enough I wasn't having fun anymore using the distro vs. trying to keep it how I wanted it. Between that and the aggressive version EOL policies they and the other version-based vendors have been moving to I decided it was time to switch again. I'd had my eye on the new wave of source-based distros for a while, including Rock, Gentoo, and Sorcerer. I tried Gentoo and was not that fond of it; it wasn't the configuration-based package manager I was expecting a source-based distro to provide. I was aware of the "issues" Sorcerer had experienced but it had been a while so I checked to see what had happened and was pleased to find not one but three distros had survived. I started with SMGL because it looked the most appealing to an experienced SA and haven't looked back. Having the real-time source builds is nice but I especially love the interactive installs that automate the truly rote stuff without making any important decisions for me, as well as the Unix approach and the fact it's all in shell instead of something else.
What future do you personally see for SMGL? I personally just hope SMGL stays true to what makes it great now and doesn't follow all the other good distros toward "only having the most users matters". Maybe it's selfish but I'm tired of looking for a new distro that just does what I want. 
Tell us a little bit about yourself. Education/Career/Skills? BS in religion/philosophy, political science/pre-law, and history. Philosophy doesn't pay the bills so I work in CS. Currently I'm a Sr. Systems Engineer working at an e-commerce company. It's my job to figure out what we need at a systems level to get what the business wants and either find something that does that and implement it or build it from other pieces if necessary.
Any personal messages for the Source Mage users out there? If it doesn't kill you it will make you stronger, and if it kills you you'll be dead, so why not try?
vi or emacs? vi. I'm not cool enough to need a LISP machine.
KDE or GNOME? e16. Although I ran KDE for a few years (and I think still have an @kde.org address), eventually I realized all I need is e+eterm. And a 3-headed display.
BSD or GPL? Whoever writes the code should decide. I try to be as open as I can with anything I control, BSD or Public Domain wherever possible.
What other OS programs/software have you worked on? I guess I have some small patches in most of the programs that I use every day. I've done the most work with Mutt, including various patches and such. I've also maintained the web page for several years now, though none of us on that project have had a lot of time for ongoing stuff for the last couple years. That is hopefully changing again, stay tuned. I was also briefly involved in KOffice and maintained their web page for a year or so when KImageshop was announced but didn't stay involved after that project didn't really go anywhere. I try to stay involved with USENIX as well and lately have been getting involved in the spam solution discussion, cf. the bogopaper, which I co-authored with Superdave. Finally, I have a few of my own projects I really should clean off and put out on freshmeat one of these days...
Do you have any family? I have a wife and four kids. They take priority over anything else.
What other hobbies? I used to play paintball every chance I could, maybe someday that'll happen again. I also geeked out over my phone quite a bit and am even stooped to learn some Java so I could hack on it. Since 1996 I've been pretty much a permanent fixture on Darker Realms LPMud. Starting in 2008 I got very active with Ron Paul's grassroots Presidential Campaign and am currently the acting Texas state coordinator for the Campaign for Liberty.
What kind of car do you drive? Or what is your dream car? I have a wife and four kids, I drive a Subaru station wagon and a Toyota Sienna minivan. Though I wouldn't mind a Subaru WRX for myself.
Please attach a recent photograph of yourself - if you're brave enough ;=) Not today, maybe later...