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<BODY LEFTMARGIN="0" TOPMARGIN="0" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#CC0000" ALINK="#000000" VLINK="#666666"> <TABLE WIDTH="425" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="88" HEIGHT="200" VALIGN="TOP"> <FONT SIZE="3" FACE="Palatino, Times New Roman"> <IMG SRC="images/ulfhead.jpg" WIDTH="80" HEIGHT="150"><BR> <IMG SRC="images/pixel.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="88" HEIGHT="1" VSPACE="1"><BR> </FONT> </TD> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="400"> <IMG SRC="images/ulfname.gif" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="65"><P> <IMG SRC="images/pixel.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="8" VSPACE="1"><BR> <FONT SIZE="3" FACE="Palatino, Times New Roman"> that name of mine is a steady source of curiosity. whenever i meet somebody new, the first hurdle tackled in our joint effort to communicate is my name. more often than not i wind up repeating it and while i'm at it, i usually proactively spell it out as well. letter for letter: u as in ukulele, l as in light, f as in fire. explaining my name has developed into a ritual over the years. sometimes i tell a little story about my swedish mom and my austrian dad considering different names for me. had i emerged female i might very well have been an <I>eva.</I> the two choices for male monikers were <I>ulf</I> and <I>björn.</I> the latter translates to "bear". they named me ulf and i did turn out quite a bit more wolf-like than bear-like. maybe language does shape reality.<P> what follows is information about yours truely. <A HREF="who.html">who i am</A>, <A HREF="what.html">what i do</A>, and <A HREF="where.html">where my thoughts are these days</A>.<P> </FONT> <P ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT SIZE="-2" Face="Times, Times New Roman">copyright © 1997 ulf kastner <A HREF="mailto:ulf@texas.net" onMouseOver="window.status='drop me a line?';return true"><ulf@texas.net></A></FONT> <IMG SRC="images/pixel.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="1" VSPACE="1"><BR> </TD></TR></TABLE> </BODY>