In the penultimate installment of my ultimate series, Better Know a Beard, we meet our final participant from south of the Mason-Dixon Line, where the men are manly and the women will hurt me so I'll just shut up now.

Jim Van Verth wears many hats:¹ he is an author, a podcaster,² a software engineer, a husband, a father, and a beard-sporter.

Jim's podcast, The Vintage Gamer, is an exploration of the games of years-gone-by; an aural Wayback Machine of sorts, which whisks us back to a yesteryear when dice had just six sides and a person proclaiming they had wood for sheep was locked up on the spot.

Jim's book, Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, is a rollicking tale of romance on the high seas, where every buckle is swashed and nary a bodice goes unripped. Or it may be a presentation of "the core mathematics necessary for sophisticated 3D graphics and interactive physical simulations".³

Jim lives in North Caroline with his wife, their daughter, and a little brown dog.⁴

¹This may well be a lie, as I've never seen Mr. Van Verth wear even one hat.

²A rarity in these parts.

³I get the two confused.

⁴That sound vaguely familiar, doesn't it?