Author Description

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a sudden change in the author's routine. No longer did he need to drive to work and teach his class, mentor research students or participate in other 'normal' duties of the job which included a sudden cancellation of a baseball related trip to Florida. For some still unknown reason, he watched a stupid shark movie (a sharksploitation film) and wrote a review for his friends on the leadership council of IONiC VIPEr (www.ionicviper.org). The group got a kick out of the review and so the author did another. From there the author felt an obligation to watch and review a sharksploitation film every day. His friends wondered how long this could last. So did he. At first he didn't think it could be more than a month. By the end over 100 films were watched and reviewed on a scale named after actor Ian Ziering.