Get To Know Your Geeks: Chris
It's the final installment of Get to Know Your Geeks, and we wrap it up with... me. Check out the whole series here.
When did you first discover you were a geek?
I cried on the day when I got my first NES. As a kid my favorite TV shows were all on PBS. I lived for the smell of a new pack of LEGOs. Being a geek has always been with me, basically.
What is the one video game you keep coming back to no matter how many times you've played it?
I am constantly playing Final Fantasy 9, and I imagine Bioshock is going to enter heavy rotation as well.
What is your day job?
I am a Social Media Guru/web designer/front end producer for an Internet marketing company in Seattle called Portent Interactive. We are pretty awesome. You should hire us. I live and breathe Photoshop and CSS.
If you were stranded on an island with a DVD player and could only bring ONE DVD or DVD set, what would you bring?
Futurama, or something narrated by David Attenborough.
Put your music on shuffle and hit play. What comes up?
TV on the Radio - Hours.
How long have you been with The Weekly Geek, and what is your favorite thing you have done so far for the site?
I joined the radio show back in 2002 I believe, when Grant was still talking about pro wrestling and playing Nerf Herder and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on the air. I don't have one favorite thing I have done for the site, it's all amazing. Being a part of this has afforded me many opportunities in my life, and I am eternally grateful for the ability to do something like this. My favorite times with the site, though, have to be giving stuff away. I love running contests and making someone happy with free stuff. Coincidentally, we have a contest going right now. Why don't you enter it?
What blogs do you regularly read?
Boing Boing, Destructoid... look I'll just save time by linking you to my shared Google reader items. I read almost a hundred different blogs. Check out that link if you want to know what I've been reading this week. I am obsessed with my rss reader.
Do you have any non-geek related hobbies?
I like to cook, but I guess that could be considered geeky to some extent. I also paint and create art, but that can be geeky too.
What was the worst video game you have ever played?
American Chopper for the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox/toaster. What a horrible load of crap.
What say you?!