Yeah, That Guy

J.A. Montalbano (thanks, Hank): One of the first things Don Schrader points out the first time he welcomes me into his apartment is that it measures 12 feet by 14 feet and that when you subtract the wall space his livable area is 151 square feet, or just 1 square foot bigger than Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond.

For the record.

Schrader, a model of simple living, is nothing if not a completist — a stickler for facts and numbers. A purist in every sense of the word.

You might know him. If you read the Letters to the Editor section of newspapers, you'd recognize his name. If you've seen a nearly naked man in the University Area or at a flea market or on Channel 27 or carrying a homemade protest sign in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, you'd remember his face. Or maybe his washboard abs.

Yeah, that guy.