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Name:Christopher Pratt
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Location:San Diego, California, United States
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Bio:I was born on a farm just north of Stockton, CA; I grew up playing around hay bales, sugar beet fields, and oak trees.

Eventually, I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English literature; the most useful courses were library science and typing, which continue to serve me well. I always thought I was going to be a teacher, but one semester teaching German as a second language made me reconsider.

After a decade at Apple and Netscape, I moved to Washington state to work for Microsoft. I lasted four winters, but decided to move back to California. These days, I work on developer tools for Qualcomm.

Whenever I get the time and money, I go traveling and/or drinking. I'm a wine geek, but I do share, which makes it slightly less annoying. I'm happiest when I'm sharing a glass of good red with my friends.

I consider myself an old school Bear, having had my first beer at the Lone Star well before my 21st birthday. These days, I'm older, grayer, balder, but am still pretty much the same old Bear. Six foot three, on the heavy side, furry... you get the idea.

I've shared my life with [info]danlmarmot since 1994 - we're not married [yet] but we'd sure like to one of these days.
Pictures:over 100 public
Interests:20: bears, clonakilla, cofermentation, comme des garçons, experimental electronic music, irritainment, khachapuri, kicky beaujolais, ladyboy elephant polo, long girlish lunches, max tundra, ostalgie, oulipo, pocketbears, sevcom, strictly validated html, travel, unicode, wine, writing systems
Schools:Robert Louis Stevenson School (Upper School) - Pebble Beach, CA (1983 - 1987)
University of California - Berkeley - Berkeley, CA (1987 - 1992)
Central Washington University - Ellensburg, WA (2006)
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