My Idiosyncrasies
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User Name Etymology
I'm Kris. I love the game of pool, or any other cue sport.
Relevant Qualifications
- Working towards a PhD involving deep-sea ecology in NZ.
Quotes
- "Learn like you are going to live forever. Live like you are going to die tomorrow." — Max Cavalera, Soulfly.
- "Pessimism is just a word invented by optimists to discredit those who see the world as it really is." — Lewton, Discworld Noir
- More of a maxim really: "It is unfortunate, but necessarily true, that in general the people with the most time to edit Wikipedia are those that are the least qualified to do so."
Thoughts
- I hope I can contribute significantly to the earth sciences articles, especially palaeontology.
- I very much hope I never have enough spare time to get better than the basic level of wiki markup I'm at.
Apathetic and/or trivial.
I suppose I've done a fair bit on the Glossary of pool, billiards and snooker terms and the best article I've created would be Trace fossil classification.