In his early years, Harl Delos was a writer, editor, and photographer, publishing a number of community papers (and one magazine) in Ohio and Indiana. He started using the pseudonym of Paul Ding nearly 40 years ago. He has worked in R&D for multiple Fortune 500 companies, helping invent such products as "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" (the first margarine-type product that included buttermilk to produce enhanced flavors), and Renuzit Country Kitchen solid and aerosol air fresheners (the first such products with a cinnamon odor, intended for use in the kitchen).

As an entrepreneur, he was a principal in establishing a number of companies. The general strategy was to create companies from scratch, get them off the ground and achieve profitability, then sell the company to others and move on to create another company. Some of the companies were more successful than others. One grew under its new owner to have more than 3000 full- and part-time employees before it was sold to a still-larger organization, losing its individual identity in the process.

He started programming computers in the 1960s, when computer memory was assembled by hand from thin wires and ferrite cores, and an 8K computer cost the better part of a quarter-million dollars, and required a large air-conditioned room. He was working at NCR, where they had an Altair personal computer running a coulter counter, in the summer of 1975 when Apple, Commodore and Radio Shack introduced the first personal computers that could be powered on simply by flipping one switch. He wrote "Hollywood Djin", the first gin rummy game published for the IBM PC.

Currently retired, Harl lives with two females (a blonde trophy wife, who is a mental health professional, and a redhead, who is the long-haired German Shepard pictured above) and one gray tiger ASH cat who thinks he's a mountain lion. The redhead is imposing and has sharp teeth, the blonde is far more dangerous. The cat, like all cats, is constantly plotting our deaths.

The FCC wants to fine anyone who reviews a product without revealing that he has received compensation. We hereby notify our readers that we have received compensation, even in those cases where we haven't received compensation, on the theory of "better safe than sorry". We also notify our readers that they should assume that all writers, on all sites, may have received compensation even without realizing it. Sometimes, a smile and a kind word are the greatest compensation one could imagine....

Delos has a bachelor of science degree with a major concentration in mathematics and minors in chemistry and chemical engineering, and a doctorate in divinity.

Contact Harl Delos