C.K. Sample, III is practicing to be an expert juggler. Besides writing for O'Reilly, here?s a short list of other life bits he?s frantically attempting to keep in the air: a full-time job in Instructional Technology, a dissertation in English, writing and publishing literary criticism, writing and publishing tech articles, blogging for The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Cinematical, and Download Squad, a driving need to create art (recently completed a pen and ink of Samuel Beckett and an oil portrait of Johnny Cash), and, of course, his personal blog, Sample the Web. He enjoys spending obscene amounts of time in front of the television and the computer, simultaneously if possible, and spending time with his wonderful wife, Kristin, and his pet Eclectus parrot, Mikhail "Misha" Baryshnakov.