Chris Bongaarts (also known as Chrispy Bongo or Sir Taxi)

A little bit about myself: I'm an alumnus of the University of Minnesota, with a BA in Computer Science. I am currently employed with the Office of Information Technology at the University, and I am a former member of the U's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. For fun, I build computers out of whatever boards happen to be lying around, dissect old computer games to see how they work and extract their music, and occasionally write a song or two.

I'm a father of two daughers, Alex and Sophie.:D

What's New

2026-04-20

Linking in my Github presence where you can find some of my coding projects, mostly around video game music.

2003-03-30

I now have a LiveJournal. Read, if you dare.

2000-06-02

I've graduated from college, so I took the opportunity to tune up the website a bit. It really is in dire need of a redesign from scratch, though.

Places to go, things to see

• Music I Like (look here for the TMBG Who Sings What list)
• Books I Enjoy (I used to work at a library, after all.)
• People I Know
• Places I've Been - my WWW Bookmarks (consider it my "lukewarm links" page). Since I don't use this browser much anymore, the links may be a bit dated. Caveat Browsor.
• Things I Like to Do
• Things I May or May Not Like To Do But They Pay the Bills
• Things People Have Said - my personal online quote archive
• My Virtual Photo Gallery
• A concise life history
• How to Contact Me

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Created:        Tue Feb 15 11:56:26 CST 1994
Last modified:  Mon Apr 20 13:45:13 CDT 2026