Fleeing dismay of an ill-fitting academic discipline, at the age of almost twenty, Howard Jones departed aspirations toward a career in advanced physics. Along with a buddy, he hitchhiked to busk folk songs — and scarcely survive — on the streets of New Orleans. It was there, among other wandering souls, that characters and circumstances of his first and second novels, *O, Wow* and *ANX: life of a recog*, began to gestate. Fortunately, he became ill and returned home with a clearer appreciation of why he had been in school in the first place.

In 1999 he retired as Professor from the University of New Orleans Fine Arts faculty. There, he had developed print and digital media facilities, made and exhibited art works, taught courses and served as industry consultant in graphics. He innovated a number of digital media techniques devoted to human-computer interface (HCI) development and also was a founding principal in an industrial digital media company, *Interactive Systems International*. Continuing lifelong explorations of graphic arts and parallel inquiries into how and why humans toy with so many different flavors of truth-seeking and -concealing, he now lives in the mountains of northeast Tennessee where he explores further prospects of human interplay, especially those availed in ever more responsive, auto-adaptive and hyperlinked telemedia networks.