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Introduction

Date of Birth: October 19, 1989
First Word: "Dada"
First Sentence: "Daddy, buy more doughnut balls!" June 28, 1992
Favorite Color: Blue

Happen to be from another country? Well then, you'll just love our Language Guide!

Spanish (Español): Hola, amigos! Como estas? Yo soy un estudiante.
French (Français): Bonjour. Comment ca va?
German (Deutsch): Hallo! Wie machen Sie heute?
Portuguese (Português): Aqui em tophtucker.com, nós falamos muitas linguagens!
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My name is Christopher Blair Tucker, but I like to be called Toph. My birthday is October 19, and I was born in 1989. I like, among other things, computers, Star Wars, and reading.

I attend Beaver Country Day School (grades 6-12). Previously, I went to Bowen Elementary School, a Newton public school. The year I started this web site (1999), the Bowen building went under construction, so the students and teachers moved to Aquinas College Campus. However, the school has since moved back to its original location.

Family

My dad's name is Richard Tucker, and my mom's name is Elizabeth Tucker. I have an older brother named John, an even older sister named Annie (or Dar), and a younger (by 23 months 1 week and twelve hours) brother named Willy. I also have a brand-new puppy named Rosie! I love her very much. I use the word I too much. I have to work on that.

My grandparents live in Concord, Mass. Their names are Austin and Annie Lyne. My other grandparents (my Dad's parents) passed away before I was born. Their names are Frank Tucker and Dorothy Tucker, but we call them Mo (Dorothy), and Po (Frank). I also have about a trillion cousins, aunts, uncles, etc., but who wants to type all those up?

TuckLyne

It was the summer of 1999 at Taconnet, which is the place in Maine my family goes over summer vacation. My grandparents were visiting, and one day Willy and I found ourselves at our cabin with them with nothing to do. (My parents were at some tennis thing, I think.) We started playing around with what we could make out of newspaper from our fireplace supply. By the end of the day our deck was littered with "Hat Balls", "Javelin Throws" and "Ring Tosses." That night at dinner we assigned roles to everyone present and declared ourselves the Executives Committee of TuckLyne Inc.

TuckLyne's most successful product was not one that had been invented out of newspaper the summer of 1999. Instead, homemade business cards were. A couple of years after TuckLyne was founded (and again at Taconnet), I took that idea to a new company: Athena. Just recently I decided TuckLyne would buy Athena, so now Humpty Dumpty has been put back together again by all the king's horses and all the king's men.

Finally, there's TuckLyne Studios. TuckLyne Studios was formed when a couple of my friends and I were making a movie and need some name to put in the credits. Check out the web site for more information.

I love Star Wars - a lot. I've seen Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Episode II: Attack of the Clones six times each in theaters, Episode IV: A New Hope [Special Edition] two times, and the others, sadly, never. Of course, we own them all on DVD and VHS, except for Episode II, which we don't own on video.

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (in theaters now!) is, by the way, awesome. I've seen it twelve times, and you should too!

In addition to the movies, I am also a huge fan of all the books, games, and toys related to Star Wars. I've read something like a hundred Star Wars books, and there are still a few dozen I haven't yet read, with more coming out every year.

Check out my Star Wars section if you want to see my not-very-good site, then cleanse your eyes with the Official Site. Or, you can see my semi-completed and then abandoned Star Wars story over in the Library. Or you can go read "Why I Love Star Wars." Or you can do all of the above... or none. :-)

Microsoft

One of my favorite companies in the world is good old Microsoft (MSFT). We have one computer with Windows XP Professional and another with XP Media Center Edition. The Media Center is sort of a home entertainment system merged with your PC - you can watch TV, watch DVDs, record TV (a la TiVo, though we haven't set that up yet), and make your own DVDs.

Vista, the next major version of Windows, will come out in 2006. It'll feature a whole bunch of new stuff, from a new look to better integration with phones and IM. One of the coolest features is the Sidebar, which is a vertical bar occupying the right-most sliver of your screen. Whoops, never mind -- they took that out... but don't worry, there's plenty of other cool stuff in there...

Another interesting Microsoft technologies is Windows Powered Smart Displays. WPSDs are basically LCD displays that you can yank off their stand and walk around with, accessing all your documents on your PC and using the touch screen to get around. 

Then there's the Athens prototype PC, a collaboration with HP. It integrates all sorts of neat office-oriented stuff. For example, let's say you receive a phone call. The Caller ID flashes on the screen, and you choose to pick up the call on the integrated speakerphone. When you do that, the computer automatically mutes the speakers and sets your MSN Messenger online status to "On The Phone." At any time during the speakerphone call, you can pick up the (included) monitor-mounted handset and continue your call that way. Pretty cool, huh?

Of course, no section on Microsoft would be complete without a bit about the Xbox, now would it? My brother and I are both big fans of the giant videogame console, although Willy ends up with more time to play it. Currently, our most-played game is -- what else? -- Halo 2. I definitely recommend it. :-)

We started a clan in Halo 2 -- basically a group of people who play together and challenge other clans, like a team in regular sports. We were going to name it Deep Space Leprechauns -- it's a long story -- but we weren't allowed to have that many letters in the name. We settled for Tiny Green Men instead. If you're at all interested, we invite to apply to join at our official site!

Other Interests

That can't be all I like, right? Well, you'd be surprised by how much Star Wars and Microsoft monopolize my interests... but yes, I do like plenty of other things. ;-)

One of those many things is Lego. Who doesn't like Legos, after all? My brother used to have a whole Lego city in his bedroom, but then it was overtaken by a "Rokenbok" thing. Now it has become a giant K'Nex roller coaster (which the Dell Support guy who came to our house was obsessed with). Speaking of which, a K'Nex pinball machine is under construction there now!

In addition to all that other neat stuff, I like several other companies. Intel (INTC) is one of them. Our computer has an Intel Pentium 4 processor. We also have an Intel webcam, which allows us to videoconference with people over the internet or make home movies without a camcorder, as long as we don't need to move the wired camera more than a couple feet.

DaimlerChrysler AG (DCX) is another major "favorite company." In September 2002 (or was it 2001? Maybe it was...) I completed a report on DaimlerChrysler for school. Check out the the Library to view it.

I also love pretty much everything about computers, the web, and cars. For fun Macromedia Shockwave games, check out shockwave.com or candystand.com.

When I grow up.... I'm going to have a lot of trouble deciding what to do! Some of my career ideas include software programmer, inventor, physicist, movie-maker, writer, architect, graphic designer, and web designer. Uh-oh.

On September 23, 1999, I went to the last practice round of the Ryder Cup. I saw Tiger Woods many times! I also got an autograph of a European player, Padraig Harrington (the Americans weren't giving any)! He was very nice. It was extremely fun! We also took lots of pictures (I mean LOTS)! You can see some of them in the Photo Album.

In March 2000 (4^th Grade), I did a report on Albert Einstein in the form of a speech. The speech was written as if I was Einstein himself. I decided I would make an oral report, and a full report, which would be much longer. See the Library to read either version.

During the summer of 2002, I went to the computer camp Cybercamps for two weeks. While there I took a programming course in C++. While there, a made a little program with no name (hence I simply call it "My First Program"). Later, I began programming in C#, which is a lot like C++ yet slightly newer. If you want to, you can head on over to the Library to download a couple programs that I have since created. Unfortunately, they only work on Windows computers.