C.K. Sample, III is practicing to be an expert juggler. Besides writing articles and reviews for Apple Matters, here’s a short list of other life bits he’s frantically attempting to keep in the air: a full-time job in IT, a dissertation in English, a college class he teaches, writing and publishing literary criticism, writing and publishing tech articles, blogging for The Unofficial Apple Weblog, 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 blogs (Sample the Web, my iPod blog, and the recently retired 3650 and a 12-inch). 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.  If you’re interested in hiring him to write an article or in seeing (and possibly purchasing) the Johnny Cash painting or Samuel Beckett sketch, drop him a line. He’s always looking for more things to juggle.