- Former S-3A Viking carrier-based naval aircrewman.
- Former newspaper photographer, copy editor, writer and illustrator.
- Once rolled his pickup truck in an auto accident on the way to work and finished up the work day after being checked out in the emergency room.
- Attended California State University, Long Beach, Steven Spielberg's alma mater.
- Broke his left collarbone in the morning while playing touch football in high school. He wasn't diagnosed and treated until that night, going through the full school day with the untreated injury.
- Once wrote to Stanley Kubrick about 2001: A Space Odyssey and received a reply from a Kubrick relative working with Polaris Productions.
- Claims 2001: A Space Odyssey as his inspiration to become a filmmaker.
- Was flown to Los Angeles for an overnight stay in order to be interviewed for an episode of History's Mysteries. The segment about Noah's Ark research aired later that year. He doesn't believe the ark ever existed.
- A member of Acacia fraternity.
- Has designed small inexpensive motion picture accessories.
- His middle name, Aaron, was chosen because it was Elvis Presley's middle name.
- Changed his diet and lost about 120 pounds in about a year and a half.
- Lists Stanley Kubrick as his favorite director and can list all of Kubrick's films in order, starting with Day of the Fight and ending with Eyes Wide Shut.
- Was waterboarded as a Navy SERE school student. (SERE is Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape training, to either avoid becoming a POW or minimizing the impact if taken prisoner.).
- While working as a newspaper photographer, he met a former Florida governor - Claude Kirk, a current (at the time) Florida governor - Lawton Chiles, and a future (at the time) Florid governor - Jeb Bush.
- While working as a newspaper photographer, he was attacked by police dogs twice - once by accident with no injuries and once intentionally while wearing a padded dog bite sleeve.
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