Holland's lousy form was a recurring source of embarrassment during his youth. His strongest sport is bowling, though his consistency is at best second rate.
An above average Matlab programmer with fair to middling skills in C, his code - pedestrian and laced with miscast pointers - runs more often than not and sometimes produces correct results.
Holland started his career at Cornell University, but moved on to the University of California, Davis, before publishing anything of consequence. He still hasn't published anything, even of inconsequence.