Chris Gore: Things I Have Done

Places

• I was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
• I have lived for longer than a year in:
  • Florida,
  • Illinois,
  • Missouri,
  • Ohio, and
  • Wisconsin.
• I have been to Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Disneyland, Disneyworld, SeaWorld Orlando, and Six Flags Mid-America.
• I have been to the French Quarter in New Orleans (late May and early June 2006, on my Honeymoon.)

Foods

• I have eaten ostrige.
• I have eaten rabbit, while owning a pet rabbit (no, it wasn't the pet.)
• I have eaten frog.
• I have eaten alligator.
• I have eaten bison.
• I have eaten squid.
• I have eaten sushi, the real kind with raw fish.
• I have eaten raw pork.

Computers

• I have used the operating systems:
  • CP/M,
  • Apple DOS,
  • MS-DOS 2.11 through 6.22,
  • Microsoft Windows 3.1, 3.11, WfW, 95, 98, NT, 2000, and XP,
  • Linux: Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware, Caldera, Ubuntu, Debian,
  • OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and BSD/OS.
• I have hand-made a Linux installation.
• I have programmed in:
  • BASIC,
  • C,
  • C++,
  • C#,
  • C--,
  • COBOL on an IBM mainframe,
  • FORTRAN 77,
  • I have programmed HP pocket calculators quite a bit,
  • Lisp (it is my favorite programming language),
  • Mathematica (I even made it play music from mathematics!),
  • Pascal,
  • PERL,
  • Prolog,
  • and Python.

Stupidity

• I have gotten a speeding ticket for going 109-mph in a 55-mph zone. I have driven a lot faster than that and not gotten a ticket.
• I have fallen off of a cliff while climbing without any gear or rope. I have done this many other times and been more lucky.