Welcome to Electro's Hideaway. Sprawling across a palatial 1200 square feet in the lovely Decoverly area of Rockville, Maryland, Electro's Hideaway is a luxurious resort fully equipped to serve the traveling needs of science-fiction aficianadoes, folksingers, and other creative spirits seeking inspiration. At the Hideaway you'll find comfortable accommodations, a gourmet kitchen, cable TV, and an on-ramp to the information superhighway. You'll also find an art gallery, music studio, and quiet library and reading room. The Hideaway is conveniently located off of I-270 and is minutes from the Metro and Lakeforest Mall. If you're looking for a quiet spot to recharge your creative juices or spin your imagination off in directions never thought possible, Electro's Hideaway is the place for you!
And now, here's the proprieter of the Hideaway, "Gorgeous" Gary Ehrlich:
First, a little bit about your humble host. By weekday, I'm a mild-mannered junior structural engineer at Meyer Consulting Engineers in Rockville, MD, a company I joined in early December after spending almost five years employed at Bernard Johnson Young. Meyer, founded in 1965, specializes in structural engineering and inspections and has completed over 1000 projects nationwide. In particular, Meyer has extensive experience in precast, prestressed, and posttensioned concrete construction. Among the local projects Meyer has designed have been:
First and foremost, though, as I've already implied, I live and breathe science fiction. I'm an unabashed X-Files, Buffy, and Angel fan, a certified (or is that certifiable?) Trekker (Star Trek) and Babyloniac (Babylon 5) and, from the other side of the pond, Dr. Who and Red Dwarf. I read lots of SF too, counting Larry Niven, Lois McMaster Bujold, Ann Crispin, and Esther Friesner amongst my favorite authors. You can catch me at many conventions up and down the East Coast, where you'll most often find me at the filk concerts or the filk room. For the uninitiated, "filk" (a typo of "folk") is the folk music of the science-fiction community; a blend of parodies and original tunes on everything from space flight to dragons, Star Trek to Asimov, computers to cats, and a whole other bunch of topics. For some examples of filk, check out my Songs to Shock and Delight. Most of my friends are fellow SF fans and filkers too; I invite you to check out some of their web pages via my Wormholes and Jump Gates page, which will also lead you to a list of the conventions you'll find me at.
I was born in Boston in 1968; my family moved to Atlanta six months later and to the DC area in 1973. I grew up in Rockville, MD, attending public school through sixth grade before transferring to the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. Graduating from there in 1986, I went on to Johns Hopkins University, from whence I was paroled with my B.S. in Structural Engineering in 1990. After a brief stint at the Watkins Partnership in Crofton (followed by several years of temping in desktop publishing and word processing during the recession), I joined BJY in April, 1994 and worked there until joining Meyer, as previously mentioned.
Here are some photos of me in action:
