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Chris

Now in Denver as of May 2007

About Me

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." - Ayn Rand

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My Interests

Earthships | Computers | Autonomous Robotics | Computer Vision | Burning Man | Philosophy | Painting | Drawing | Sculpture | Objectivism | Hwarang Do | Tae Soo Do | Indoor Soccer | Soccer | Swimming

I'd like to meet:

Ayn Rand to meet the legend Bruce Lee so I could train with the best Albert Einstein and talk Physics... Richard Marcinko and buy him a drink Leonardo Da Vinci and talk ideas

Music:

Kan'Nal, Tenacious D, Goa, Deep House, PsyTrance, Trance, Metallica, Lullaby Crush, Megadeth, Wagner, Beastie Boys

Movies:

The Shawshank Redemption | Dead Poets Society | A Beautiful Mind | Yohimbo | Pulp Fiction | Dune | Wild At Heart |Vanilla Sky | Shine | Billy Elliot | Fight Club | Eddie Murphy-Delirious | True Romance | Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 | Old School | The Count of Monte Cristo | Leon - The Professional | What the Bleep Do We Know |Boondock Saints | Office Space | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | A Christmas Story | Caddyshack | Fletch | Requiem for a Dream | Alien | The Princess Bride | American Beauty | Napolean Dynamite | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Lord of the Rings

Television:

Don't watch TV anymore -- just Netflix ; used to watch Daily Show, Discovery Channel, History Channel, South Park

Books:

Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) , The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) , Dune and the entire Dune Series (Frank Herbert) , Power Of One (Bryce Courtenay) , Chaos - Making A New Science (James Gleick) , Introduction To Algorithms , Computer Organization And Design , Shogun (James Clavelle) , Tai-Pan (James Clavelle) , Noble House (James Clavelle) , Whirlwind (James Clavelle)

Heroes:

My Parents, My Brother, Ayn Rand , Isaac Newton , Bruce Lee , MLK , Pat Tillman , Albert Einstein , Aristotle , Da Vinci , Roger Bannister , Robert G. Ingersoll , Richard Marcinko

My Blog

Anything Into Oil

This is probably one of the most revolutionary technologies in the past 50-100 years and hardly anyone has heard of it (which is why I keep putting this out there). It's a machine that converts *anyth...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:04:00 PST

Another sign of the apocalypse

First realityTV, then this (no, I'm not religious, atheist/agnostic in fact)... i don't know, and you don't either... sign of the apocalypse...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:10:00 PST

This is what's on my mind these days....

I'm sorry to all affected as I've been even more un-communicative than I normally am during school!  Here's what is on my mind these days... My.Brain.Hurts...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:03:00 PST

You know you're studying too hard when...

You know you're studying too hard when you're in the Computer Science Grad Lab (for 5 hours already) and you're at your laptop, and you haven't moved much, and the motion sensor / computer turns the&n...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:55:00 PST