Gernotti
Gernotti got to know Go back in high school where in the chess club a few cheesy plastic boards also were sitting around in a lonely cupboard. Nevertheless, they stayed there.
He finally started playing occasionally in boring moments during his PhD-thesis, after figuring out that the best free game available for the Macintosh (which he is forced to use there) is Go. That, and of course the famous Hikaru no Go, which totally hooked him.
He now plays occasionally on IGS and KGS, with a rating which is too embarrassing to be mentioned here.
Outside the Go-world, he is a physicist struggling to survive the bad local beer you get when living in Bavaria.
P.S.: Of course, both the beer- and the Macintosh-comment are personal opinions only.