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Chris

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About Me

What are you lookin' at?

My Interests

Running, live music, cooking, web development, travel, culture, rugby, volunteering

I'd like to meet:


Music:

The Shins, KT Tunstall, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The New Pornographers, Better Than Ezra, Jon Cleary, Cowboy Mouth, Vertical Horizon, Old 97s, John Mayer, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Stravinski, Beethoven

Movies:

A franc for your thoughts.

Television:

Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, and uh occasionally football or soccer

Books:

Slaughterhouse Five, Fortress of Solitude, Confederacy of Dunces, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Erasure, The Pickup, Foundation series, H2G2, Vonnegut

My Blog

"Crude" on the History Channel

Given the History Channel's recent attempts to convince us that ancient Egyptians came from Mars and the Inca flew around in fighter jets -- if only I was making that up! -- it was nice to see a relat...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:37:00 PST

To err is human; to pun, divine.

Those of you who know me and my puns... well, you probably had the good sense to skip this entry in the first place.As I was heading out to meet the Sunday frisbee gang, I passed by a church with a si...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:26:00 PST

Fitness and fun

I noticed that I have subscribers now. I suppose I'm letting them down by not posting the random minutiae of my life!Today I did something I should have done a long time ago: I ran the LSU lakes. This...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:48:00 PST

ACL

Well, once again I started playing rugby and once again I hurt myself doing something relatively safe.  I stepped in a hole while running on Sunday and my ACL is sprained.  The doc said it's...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 16 May 2007 10:09:00 PST