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Chris

I never apologize. I'm sorry, but that's just me.

About Me

$me = ($isSoftwareDeveloper && $computerGeek);
$pets.num = (3 * $dogs) + (1 * $cats);
while ($me == ALIVE) {
play($chess, 1800);
play($videoGames);
try {
acting();
improv();
rockstar();
}
catch (e) {
dontQuitDayJob();
$pets.play();
}
}
die(1337);

Website: www.cgmartin.com

My Interests

Computers, Software Development, Video Games, Chess, Poker, Bass Guitar, Dogs/Cats, Improv Comedy, Home Improvements, Cooking, Landscaping...DJR.

I'd like to meet:

Fate, Destiny, my maker, Jesus, Buddha, Mrs. Pac Man, cyborgs, ninjas, cyborg-ninjas, aliens (from space), Abraham Lincoln, intelligent AI systems, Turing-tested fembots, Carl Jung, my doppelganger, whoever the genius was that invented air conditioning, my next new car, Teri Garr (circa 1970), Bell Labs (circa 1947), and I'd especially like to meet the damn possom(s) who keep knocking over my garbage cans and get muddied paw prints all over my carport.

Music:

Autechre, Radiohead, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Arovane, Four Tet, Prefuse 73, Speedy J, Meat Beat Manifesto, Plaid, New Order, Tenacious D, Tool, Primus, Fugazi, Pixies, Cocteau Twins, The Cardigans, My Bloody Valentine, Curve, U2, +/-, The Postal Service, LCD Soundsystem

Movies:

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Alien, The Matrix, Batman Begins, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Shichinin no samurai, Memento, Fight Club, The Sting, Rear Window, Empire Strikes Back, Tron, Die Hard

Television:

Simpsons (S2-8), Futurama, The Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Venture Brothers, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Cowboy Bebop, Veronica Mars, Law and Order, CSI, The Office, Father Ted, House, All in the Family, South Park, Knight Rider, A-Team

Books:

Computer Books, Chess Books, Asimov, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Frank Herbert, Tolkien

Heroes:

Batman, Ninjas, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla for electricity, Bell Telephone Labs for the transistor, Charles Babbage as the grandfather of the computer, and Al Gore for "inventing the internet"