How Many Chris Ms Are There?
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When I lived in Philadelphia in the early 1980s, I went to the public library to apply for a library card.
They told me there was already a card issued in that name, but it was a children's card.  So I was aware
as early as 1982 that there was a little boy named Chris Mastrangelo running around South Philly.

Of course that was 20 years ago, so that boy is probably grown up now.  Maybe he was the
same Chris Mastrangelo who worked for Exxon Mobil in Malvern PA exactly one year before
*I* started working for Exxon Mobil in Fairfax Virginia in 2000?

When I started my current job at the Marine Base in Quantico Virginia, I naturally had to check out
the local diners.  In Quantico town, in the heart of the base, there is a little place called the "Five Fifteen."
The waitress, Donna, saw my name tag and said "Do you have a daughter who lives in Stafford?"  WHOA!
First of all, my oldest daughter is only six, even though I look old enough to have a daughter who is grown.
But the amazing thing is- everywhere I go, there are Mastrangelos.

An internet search for "Chris Mastrangelo" reveals that there are even more CHRIS Mastrangelos
than you might imagine.

I am not a senior at Brown University who writes a comic strip called "Fluble" for the school newspaper.
Actually, that Chris M graduated in May- I wonder what he is doing now?

His roommate at Brown was John Leen, and so far, John is the only one to return my emails.
They lived in "Tech House" - kind of like Hill House at Penn?  More like Geek Central!
Which is probably why *I* would have fit in there- if this had all happened ten years earlier.
These guys are math and engineering majors, from the Boston area.  John even went to BU Academy.

In 1993, there was another Chris Mastrangelo who graduated from Colby College in Maine
and went on to graduate from Boston University Law School in 1995. I found that recently
while doing a Google search that found the Colby alumni newsletter for the class of 1993.
That's especially spooky, since I grew up within a stone's throw of the BU campus, and in the
early nineties, another Chris Mastrangelo was hanging in my old neighborhood.

Could that be the same Chris Mastrangelo who is currently a physical education teacher at
the Galvin School in Wakefield, Massachusetts?  Probably not- if you had a law degree would you coach hockey?

There is a Christina Mastrangelo who is an assistant  professor of systems engineering at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville.  I was in Charlottesville in July during our summer vacation.
A recent issue of the Inside UVa online magazine says that she commutes to northern Virginia to
teach a seminar at the UVa satellite campus. which  is within 3 miles of my house.
Maybe I will run into her one of these days in Merrifield?  Maybe I already have and didn't know it?!?!

If I meet one of the other Chris Mastrangelo's in real life, will the universe annihilate itself?
Or will we have to duel forever in a closed dimensional portal to prevent identical atoms
of matter and anti-matter from colliding outside the containment chamber?

Rock of Ages?
There is a Rocco Mastrangelo who is graduated May 2001 with a degree in finance at Penn State University.
According to the PSU Collegian, he started a new job in... Bethesda Maryland!   So it is entirely possible that
I could run into this guy!?

But that's not even the weird part. STAY TUNED!!

Links
NASA Science News has a sightings map
CNN Coverage- July 24, 2001
2001 Space Weather Headlines

Shuttle UFO?!
When the Space Shuttle reentered the atmosphere on July 25, 2001, during a relatively rare night landing, viewers in Central America reported a burning airplane crashing, and one state in Mexico actually sent out boats to search the ocean!

It happened AGAIN!
On September 6, 2001, a Russian rocket booster burned up and lit up the early morning sky over the eastern USA.

Incredibly Strange Coincidences 2000  2001 Q1/Q2 Q3 Q4 9-11
 

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