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Journalism Faculty
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I'm one of the Oceanic 6.
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Eagle eye!!!
I love your job!
cool smoke pictures
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James Lambert goes from print to web :)
Great picture
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Toiling away at aVermont newspaper
Profile Information
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
- What best describes your role in journalism?
- News artist, Developer, Faculty
- What organization are you with?
- Swarm Interactive
- Biography
- Born into abject poverty in Denmark in 1546, Chris was the most prominent astronomer of the late 16th cent. He paved the way for future discoveries by improving instruments and by his precision in fixing the positions of planets and stars. From Chris' exact observations of the planets, Kepler devised his laws of planetary motions. Chris' achievements included the study of a supernova (first observed in 1572 and now known as "THE FREAKIN' HUGE" supernova) in the constellation Cassiopeia and the discoveries of a variation in the inclination of the lunar orbit and of the fourth inequality of the moon's motion. He never fully accepted the Copernican system but made a compromise between it and the Ptolemaic system. In the Kirkmanic system, the earth was the immobile body around which the sun revolved, and the five planets then known revolved around the sun. Given funds by the Danish king Frederick II, Chris built on the island of Ven a castle, Uranienborg, and an observatory, Stjarneborg. He was deprived of his revenues by Christian IV in 1596 and left Ven (1597); in 1599 he settled near Prague under the patronage of the German emperor Rudolf II. In 1604, while on expedition to the Andes Mountains to better observe celestial phenomenon from on top of a really honkin' big mountain, Chris slipped and fell into an ice flow. He remained frozen there until discovered by millionaire Tony Stark in 1984. Today Chris lives in a world that is strange and frightening, trapped in a world he never created, but he has dedicated his life to informing and enlightening the world on early and distinct flaws in the Copernican system.
- Web site
- http://www.atomichris.com
- AIM
- If only there were 48 hours in a day
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Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 11:51am on February 4, 2008,
Cindy Jones-Hulfachor said… - Hay Chris, pretty crazy right now. Election stuff has been swamping us. Hope it will mellow out soon. How are things at Chapel Hill. Been involved in any cool interactive stuff?
- At 12:43pm on January 31, 2008,
Rebekah Monson said… - This photo is what happens when I work what I like to call "CCI bullshit Saturdays" ... How goes it?
- At 10:22am on January 31, 2008,
Ben Villarreal said… - And, by the way, that biography kicks ass. Too funny.
- At 10:15am on January 31, 2008,
Ben Villarreal said…
- What's up, brotha. Things are going pretty good. It's performance evaluation time here at the paper, so I'm pretty swamped with those. I've got 10 of them to do. I've been playing some with what I learned at the class. I created a pretty cool - well, cool for me anyway - intro for a presentation with sound. I talked with my boss, and we've decided that we need to make sure I carve out time to work on my multimedia skills. I'm planning on buying a workbook on Flash by Lynda.com. I'm hoping that it'll reinforce some of the stuff I learned at the class and, hopefully, push me further ahead. Anyway, how are you, man? Staying busy? It's good to hear from you.
- At 9:48am on January 31, 2008,
Charles Apple said… - Hey, I can understand where you're coming from. For years, my wife has told me the Copernican model is flawed, too -- because, as she point out, the Earth actually revolves around her, not the sun.
- At 6:15pm on January 30, 2008,
Charles Apple said…
- Dude, that is the MOST entertaining online profile I have ever seen.
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