Theodore Ted TerboLizard is one of the true Renaissance men of this so-called computer revolution we keep hearing so much about.
A Bay Area native, he's an eccentric musician, graphic designer, clothing and multimedia artist who got his start back when Multimedia Gulch was a crappy industrial neighborhood and nobody had even heard of e-mail. Nowadays his freelance career has exploded: His enormous client list includes Macromedia, Nike, and Apple; he's put out two audio CDs; and he's done video performance gigs in San Francisco, New York, and Ashikaga City, Japan.

But although I'd long been aware of his technological wizardry, it was TerboLizard's myriad online personalities that really fascinated me. With over 400 Web pages on five different servers, TerboLizard's sites are labyrinthine excursions into several different and often overlapping personae: a raving madman; a pirate and a joker; a musician and performance artist; and also a devoted family man. I spoke to the hyperkinetic Theodore Ted TerboLizard about some of his online alter egos, and the medium that so readily facilitates them.

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