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Chris Brennan

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.


The past:

CollectorNerd.com - A web site I am/was developing. Check it out here.

    [OBSESSIONS] Cataloging collections -- and collectors (San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, 2004)

Some bands:

    Bloody Fucking Chum Bucket Pizza Brothers Shark River Pirates Kickstand the Entertainment Cat 36 hour idiot Chortlehok and the Incredible Mile Plastic Children

Kryptonite lock VS. Chris Brennan + Bic pen

    The pen is mightier than the....u-lock (BikeBiz.co.uk, 2004) Cyclists: Bike locks easy prey for thieves - (Boston Globe, 2004) Brown bike owners react to security flaw in U-lock (Brown Daily Harold, 2004) Bike Lock Fiasco (Freedom To Tinker, 2004) Lock, stock and caught over a barrel (The Observer, 2004) Flic A Bic (Mountain Bike Magazine, 2004) The Pen Is Mightier Than the Lock (New York Times, 2004) Mission District cyclist blew whistle on flawed lock (San Francisco Chronicle, 2004) Twist a Pen, Open a Lock (Wired Magazine, 2004) Chris Brennan is a rather nice fellow (davebellous.com, 2004) A Bic Licks a Lock (San Francisco Magazine, 2004)

Urban exploration - (press related to my old UE group, Institute for Urban Exploration )

    There's Treasure Everywhere (Daily Titan, 2002) Urban Exploring: The Last Frontier (Men's Joural, Sept 2003)

Other weird stuff

    RIAA Changes Its Tune (Tech Live, TechTV, Aug 2003)- Summary article based on the Tech Live TV interview dealing with RIAA lawsuits & Intellectual Property issues Melissa Virus TV interview (Fox News, 2000) - "I'm not a computer security expert, but I play one on TV!" Family Style Jamboree Issue ..2 (2003) - The Chris Brennan issue. Lies, all lies. Shit Talker discussed in Steal This Computer Book II - Some of you OG nerd troublemakers might remember a program called "Shit Talker" floating around the internet in the 90's. It was a program I made which would make your computer talk to people - mainly for the purpose of prank calling. ( Amazon ) Best of Orlando, Arts and Entertainment, "Best Band Name" - Orlando Weekly July 19-25, 2001. Bloody Fucking Chum Bucket obviously IS the best band name ever. Adventures with Neighborhood Gates (2600: The Hacker Quarterly, 1998/1999) - I was young, give me a break. Abstracts, comparisons & importance's of the Linux/open-source software movements in radical/activist communities (The Hacktivist Magazine, written in 1998)

My Interests

everyday life in san francisco, pleasant weekends, staying caffeinated, sustainable laziness, ruckus, classic lightweights, mechanical advantage, haunted ebay items, neurolinguistic programming, analytical simplicity, syntatical ambiguities, theoretical physics, getting hyphee, logic, mathematics as the language of nature, complexity, infinity, chaos, societal entropy, fractals, pi, phi (golden ratio, fibonacci sequence), social engineering, alternative media consumption & creation, destionationless travel, unix based operating systems, open sourcing the world, freedom of information, feminism, equality, handstyles, staying up, getting down, thug martyrdom, natural selection, oneupmanship, circular arguments, recursive acronyms, flea markets, thrift stores, estate sales, print making, rare vinyl, skateboardering, drumming, purple sippin', woodgrain grippin', candy drippin', ghostride whippin', and.. art. and the mother fucking human condition bro.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in picnics or chinchillas.

Music:



Movies:

Peter Greenaway, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Mathew Barney, David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lars von Trier, Harmony Korine, Darren Aronofsky, Werner Herzog, Wes Anderson, Trent Harris, Stanley Kubrick, Coen brothers, Michael Moore, that's a good start. Lots of documentaries. Lots of everything.

Television:

Wonder Showzen, Twin Peaks, Mr. Show, Kids In The Hall, Mr. Wizard, TV Funhouse, The Awful Truth, Sealab, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Peewee's Playhouse, MST3K. And maybe Lost sometimes.

Books:

Nabokov, Sedaris, Eggars, Vonnegut, Chomsky, Danielewski, Nietzsche, Hawking, Feynman, Gleick, old medical journals, font books, art books, McSweeny's, Juxtapoz, Clout, Beautiful Decay, Found Magazine, Mass Appeal, AdBusters, Infiltration, 2600, anything with crude illustrations or how-to diagrams, the entire O'Reilly animal series. Wikipedia.

Heroes:

Teddy DuChamp, Mr. T, Dirk Halloway, E.T the Extra Terrestrial, Alan Turing, Euclid, Kool Keith, Amelie Poulain, Keyser Söze, Special agent Dale Cooper.

My Blog

Yesterday I mouthed off to Parker Posey

I was sitting outside Tartine when these two people walked by. The guy was on his cell phone and said (with a lisp) "You look so saaaaad! SMILE!". Every time someone does that to me I generally become...
Posted by Chris Brennan on Thu, 03 May 2007 02:47:00 PST

Business as usual:

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Posted by Chris Brennan on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:44:00 PST

Fine. I give up.

I will maintain an up-to-the-minute accurate profile on all seventy-five popular social networking websites.
Posted by Chris Brennan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST