• Joe has the ugliest set of Mikasa dishes anyone has ever seen.
• The only object in the world which Joe can throw with any authority is a Frisbee.
• Joe once competed in a kite-flying contest at a star party. He won because he was the only entrant who could run a little bit.
  
• Joe has owned about 30 different telescopes in his career.
• Joe's favorite drawing medium is Prismacolor pencils.
• Bergeron is not Joe's original last name.
• Joe plinks out tunes on an obscure folk instrument called the mountain dulcimer.
• Joe has owned only two cars in his life, both of them purchased used.
• As a schoolboy, Joe went through a long period of eating only tuna sandwiches for lunch.
• Joe required eight years of sporadic college attendance to obtain his bachelor's degree.
• Joe was once capable of effectively wielding two soldering irons while peering through a microscope.
• Before being imitated by Don Johnson and Indiana Jones, Joe invented the scruffy, unshaven look.
• In dark times, Joe has seriously considered becoming a grade school teacher, a railroad engineer, a security guard, and a hamster wrangler.
• Joe hiked the entire 16-mile length of the Zion Narrows in less than 9 hours, which may be a world record.
• As a boy, Joe once asked God to deliver onto him a quantity of hunting missiles with dials to control what animal one wanted them to chase, as seen in a cartoon. He walked back and forth from the front yard to the back, waiting for crates of the missiles to come wafting down out of the sky.
• Joe was easily the best archer in his college archery class.
• Joe mades music CDs with his aunt and uncle and forced them on his family and friends.
• Joe wishes Miss Cavallero had brought those nude drawings into his 10th grade art class, even though those dumb other guys snickered about it.
• Joe was the Art Guest of Honor at the Balticon 41 science fiction convention in 2007 and at the Windycon 38 convention in 2011.
• Joe designs the T-Shirts for the annual Grand Canyon Star Party.