User:Poolkris

My Idiosyncrasies

This user is from God's own county.

This user plays eight-ball.

This user drinks. Period.

S₁This 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.

MIThis user knows all the Monkey Island Insults by heart!

This user would likely die without eating the occasional curry.

This user supports the
English cricket team.

OEDThis user uses Oxford spelling.

This user plays snooker.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Snooker

SIThis user uses the metric system and loves it.

Me

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.

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 Glossary of pool, billiards and snooker terms and the best article I've created would be Trace fossil classification.