User:Poolkris

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." &mdash; Max Cavalera, Soulfly.


 * "Pessimism is just a word invented by optimists to discredit those who see the world as it really is." &mdash; 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.