DRS Bio ------- Name: Christopher Mark Conn, aka DRS Founder and List Guy Born January 16, 1956 (same day as Connie Chan my birthday buddy, and the day after Jim P.) in Atlanta, Georgia, a capricorn born in the year of the goat (who no longer believes in astrology) Family: Wife Lisa (26 years), 3 kids: Ian (17), Avery (14), and Gracie (11). We live in-between Leander and Cedar Park, in the burbs about 30 miles north of Austin, TX We've been here for 20+ years. Lisa and I both grew up in Houston, met waiting in line to buy tickets for a Bruce Springsteen concert in 1980. Work: IBMer doing AIX Technical Support at IBM Austin (specifically supporting the Hardware Management Console for system p servers and clustering systems CSM and GPFS) Some college (various universities around Texas, always part time) Running: I run by time, 5 days a week Coming back after a long lay-off, trying to establish a good base this year. Here's what I'm doing now Mon 45 min easy Tue tempos Wed 45 min easy Thu off Fri 45 min easy Sat 90 min lsd Sun off Maybe by the end of the year or early next year I'll add a speedwork day and hope to get in some races next year. Not even thinking about marathons for a few years. Shoes: ASICS Gel something, usually buy the ones for about $50 Computers: FreeBSD 6.2 Dell Pentium III 500 mhz, an old computer that still performs well cause it's a Unix box What I do with my free time: Kids, movies (on DVD and DVR), collecting music on mp3's (my computer is my mp3 player), reading, and of course reading my DRS mail and administering mailing lists --- Chris Conn http://storm.cadcam.iupui.edu/~cmcgoat Austin, Texas, USA