I am Doug Ghormley, the web master of this site.  I'm a big fan of Plone (the software running this site) and run it every opportunity I get.  Take a gander at my favorite open source software as well as my reasons for recently switching to Macintosh.

I also like aerobie, chess (especially bughouse), paint ball, billiards, digital photography (shooting with a Canon D20), languages (I've studied French, German, Spanish, some Italian and Russian, collected phrases in Tagalog, Swahilli, Turkish, Indonesian, and I've co-invented my own langage) and computers ("Give a man a program and you frustrate him or a day; teach him to program and you frustrate him for a lifetime.").  I am a quiet, shy, introverted geek as you can clearly see from my picture.

I have two interesting stories about other distantly-related Ghormlies.  Many of us will infrequently meet people that say "oh, Ghormley, huh?  I knew someone named Ghormley once...".  I have had two encounters that are minorly more substantial than that.  The first was when I picked up a packet of developed pictures at Costco.  I read the name "Sara Ghormley" and didn't look in the packet.  I paid for them, took them home, and opened them only to realize that there apparently is another Sara Ghormley in town that uses the same Costco.  We had heard that there was another Ghormley family in town (I believe the gentleman involved was an announcer on one of the classical stations in town), but I was surprised to find another Sara Ghormley using the same Costco.  We've never met them.  Perhaps we should....

My second encounter was much more substantial.  I was on a flight from Virginia back to Albuquerque with a stop-over in Dallas.  I was sitting there getting situated at the beginning of the flight when the announcement came over the loud speaker "This is your captain Bob Ghormley..." (I didn't hear much else after that).  My dad's name is Bob Ghormley.  So after we landed in Dallas, I introduced myself to the pilot.  We exchanged e-mail addresses and later a few e-mails.  After comparing geneological information, we determined that our first common ancestor was Hugh Ghormley who came to America in 1754 or so.  We were as distantly related as possible while still being provable related.  I believe that makes him my sixth cousin or so.  We are the same generational distance from Hugh, but he was probably in his 50's and I was around 34.  Not too bad of a skew for seven generations.