User:Poolkris

My Idiosyncrasies This user is from God's own county. This user plays eight-ball. This user drinks. Period. S1 This user is a Scrabble player. This user misses Pluto. May its planethood rest in peace. This user enjoys smoking cannabis. This user plays nine-ball. MI This user knows all the Monkey Island Insults by heart! This user would likely die without eating the occasional curry. English cricket team . OED This user uses Oxford spelling. This user plays snooker. This user is a participant in WikiProject Snooker SI This user uses the metric system and loves it.

Me

User Name Etymology

I'm Kris. I love the game of

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
  palaeontology
  .
• I very much hope I never have enough spare time to get better than the basic level of
  wiki markup
  I'm at.

Websites

• My trace fossil article
• My pool team (Crooked Billet A)

Contributions

Apathetic and/or trivial.

I suppose I've done a fair bit on the