The boy is Radd Icenoggle- a small-town country boy and son of a Montana rancher. He was on horseback before he could walk and drove before it was legal because if you could barely see over the steering wheel, you were qualified to be a ranch hand.

Radd went to school during the day and busted his li’l tush after school feeding cattle with Mom and Dad. He preg-tested cows (where they stick their arm up the cow’s arse to feel the calf. It’s literally a shitty job), calved cows, and branded them. So when this friendly and talkative man who is always too rad to be sad says he knows his steak, trust me, he knows his steak. The same traits he learned in the country helped his career in the tech-business world, where he would make international trips to teach Luddites, like me, that the value of hardware is more than the sum of the parts that could be kicked. 

The girl is Vida, aka Cranky Misfit, and has been contributing to entropy ever since she was born at a young age. She is a Persian Canadian American.

Vida’s Azari Turkish parents are from Tabriz (تبریز), Iran- the birthplace of the Sufi tradition. She grew up in Esfahan (اصفهان), the capital of old Persia, immigrated to Canada in her teens, and later luck ferried her to Montana. She bears the imprint of each country she has called home and to this day still does not know how to answer the simple question of “Where are you from?”

The couple loves to explore the outdoors, find beautiful places to get lost in, and the Earth’s rotation really makes their day.