About
This is the personal site (blog, wasted webspace, etc) of Chris Streeter. This site is mostly a place where I can dabble in new technologies (i.e., waste personal time on my computer) on the web, store information related to my travels and keep a public archive of my pictures.
I took all the pictures used in the header of this site. The pictures are from around the world taken on my travels as well as right at home. You can randomly cycle through them by refreshing any page, or by clicking the recycle-looking image in the header’s lower right.
Contact
You can contact me via email by taking @chrisstreeter.com and then adding whatever you want before the ‘@’. For example, chris works pretty well.
Additional Information
In addition to the information on this site, I’ve got a presence on a number of other communities representing different areas of my life:
Biography
Spanning the 20ish years of my life, I’ve lived in a variety of places… in California. These places have ranged from the O.C., the great gun shaped Nevada County, the home of the Blue and Gold (and the hippies), Santa Barbara to the Heart of Darkness, aka Palo Alto.
After graduating from high school in the early part of this century, I packed up my things and set out for the great unknown, college. Four years later, I graduated the greatest public university there is, UC Berkeley. My primary course of study, after several changes, was the field of Computer Science. After Cal, I embarked on a Europe trip, and, upon returning, I entered the (full time) working class.
Since starting work, I’ve been putting stamps on my passport and, to quote a friend, “adding inordinate amounts of value through utterly unremarkable activities” at work.
Interests
Some of my interests in a concise bullet-pointed form:
- Rubik’s Cubes – ever since high school, I’ve been playing with them from time to time.
- Hiking both with a backpack on overnight trips and day hikes around home or in exotic places (Yosemite, India, Brazil, Singapore, Thailand)
- Sailing my Hobie 18
- Traveling around the world. A personal goal of mine is to add a new stamp to my passport every year. I’ve sort of demolished that goal. 2006 saw stamps from 3 countries, 2007 saw stamps from 3 countries along with 3 visas to those countries. 2008 has so far seen stamps from 3 new countries with plans for at least 1 more country. Yet, it is still a goal.
Random Facts
- I lost to William Hung in a talent competition, before he was famous. I got second place to the infamous William Hung and his rendition of Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs”. First place won a DVD player and second place got a pat on the back. My second place entry was to solve the Rubik’s cube while dancing. Needless to say, time did not improve Mr. Hung’s performance for his American Idol audition.
- Between the months of November and December of 2007, I circumnavigated the globe over a period of slightly more than 2 weeks. To keep this a bit shorter, I’m going to abbreviate the places by their airport codes.
- LAX to SIN
- SIN to MAA
- MAA to IXM
- IXM to BLR
- BLR to DEL
- DEL to SVO
- SVO to FRA
- FRA to LAX
There were a couple other stops in there, as I actually started in Sacramento, CA (SMF), finished in Santa Barbara, CA (SBA), made a mid-trip detour to Panjim, Goa, India (GOI) and also visited Kaluga in Russia. But you get the idea.
