User:Crates

Hi! I'm Crates. I joined WikiPedia to rectify the major lack of content on the mc chris page. I uploaded the information and covers for each of his albums, and some biographical information. I've seen him in concert, hung out with him before and after the show, and know from personal experience that he's one of the most humble, chill people you could ever hang out with.

One of my hobbies is producing suburban hiphop through a local group, MMMC (prounounced "three emcee", "triple emcee", "thirty-one hundred", or just plain "em em emcee"... take your pick). Props to mc chris and also MC Frontalot for giving me the inspiration to be a rediculous drunken nerdcore hiphop star.

[edit] Internet Accomplishments

You know, hanging out on WikiPedia isn't the ONLY reason I go online.

SDC: A small, local web development business used to garner programming and design contracts in my spare time. The web site isn't finished yet; I'll add a link when it is.

CyberArmy: Ranked Captain in the CyberArmy, I was once quite active as the Second-in-Command of their Special Operations unit (under the nickname "prophet"). CyberArmy stands for the government deregulation and protection of the Internet.

SongFight: As I mentioned above, I've been contributing regularly to the SongFight amateur artist forum under the name "MMMC" with several of my buddies in the area; most notably is Deacon, with whom I originally co-founded the group. He's not around as much any more, but you can bet he'll be on future tracks.

UberSite: Though much less active in the last year than when I joined, I still occasionally dain to write some fiction for the Chicago-based UberSite forum. Many thanks to Bart Cilfone for creating that site and supporting the free exchange of literary art.

[edit] Quotations

• "Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content." – Louis L'Amour

• "On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." – George Orwell

• "Everything in moderation... even moderation." – Siddhartha Gautama

• "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish." – Aeschylus

• "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." – William Dement

• "The gods too are fond of a joke." – Aristotle

• "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." – James Baldwin

• "Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd." – Allan Goldfein

• "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either." – Dick Cavett