Chris Real Name:  Christopher Age:  36 Resides:  Northridge, California Occupation:  Programmer/analyst for Fortune 500, consultant, personal project...

Favorite website(s):
Slashdot, Google News

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Dune, the original by Frank Herbert. Movie? Ah, changes all the time but Indiana Jones was on the list for a while. Rambo: First Blood, The Outlaw Josey Wales. LOTR extended versions.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
jEdit.

What are you playing and working on right now:
xml-rpc services for remote server admin.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
My son Viggo at 3 weeks old, yawning.

What's so special about your computer room:
My computer room no longer exists. I have a laptop, and my pc became my wife's. Thank God for WIFI.

How many computers do you have:
3, 2 laptops, old, one e-machine, amd 2400 Nothing to write home about.

What was your first computer:
Casio PB-700

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
A text adventure game I wrote, like Hammurabi, but crossing the desert with horse drawn wagons. Don't let the bear get you and get water for your horse.

Geekiest moment of your life:
Chris is still waiting for his geekiest moment to occur...which is why he has hired a video crew to follow him around every moment of his waking life, ready to capture that moment like nerd paparazzi at a Linux convention.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
I was reading esr's jargon file description of geeks, and, well, there was a 99.44% match.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
42.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
When I realized that I would never have to pay for prOn ever again.

What is your favourite quote:
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Einstein.

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
An on-board flight control system. Because that's the closest I could get to actually flying a plane.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Drive the car, eat food, talk to the wife, change diapers, play with the kid, read computer books and fiction, and, most importantly, sleep.

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
This is a trick question.

Chris, who would rather program in python than go to parties, says: "If you can't find my website you can't use google". Chris encourages you to use Python, wikipedia, debian linux. Oh, and read Sun Tsu. And Mushashi.