1. I was served beer more than once by Sarah McLachlan back in the early 90s.

2. My two favorite collected objects are a brick from the first school I attended (Norman MacLeod school, RIP) and a piece of an ill-fated Indy car from a race in Halifax that I covered as a journalist

3. I harbour a secret affection for “COPS” and miss it now that I don’t get it anymore…

4. My first computer was a TI99/4A with a cassette recorder for storage.

5. A year or so ago, a five-year-old friend who is a VERY close friend to us nearly died from meningitis. One of the most profound experiences of my life was to read her a story while she was in an induced coma and be told that her rising heart rate was because she recognized the voices I was using to play the characters. (She’s perfect now, and as sweet a child as you can imagine)

6. I cried the day Gilles Villeneuve died.

7. I am shocked at how quickly I learned to make really good espresso. I think I missed a calling.

8. I got excited to see Jeremiah Owyang quoted in the Saturday Ottawa Citizen and be able to say I know him, albeit virtually. How sad is that?

Bob.

http://nost.radam.us/2008/01/8-things-you-probably-dont-know-about.html

Cheers – Devin

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I’m going to start a meme called, “stop the meme, meme”

1) I’m originally from Maine so I’m a rural kinda guy too.
2) I took piano lessons for 8 years – didn’t enjoy it at the time but I’m happy now that I did it.
3) I cross-country skied growing up. I didn’t try down hill until Jr. year of high school. My first trip skiing was miserable (let’s just say that it ended with me breaking my skis — that I had borrowed.
4) I took French for 7 years starting with private lessons in 6th grade. I’m still not fluent.
5)I studied Russian and Soviet Studies in undergrad (UMass) and grad school (Georgetown) but don’t do a thing with it now. Ugh.
6) I am two courses short of getting my masters degree. It was because of a girl (not my wife) – I got distracted.
7) These days, it seems like I watch two things on television: sports and Food Network (love Iron Chef America) — I’m probably more excited than I should be that Jamie Oliver is back on FN.
I started blogging about 20 months ago. I look back at my first blog posts and it’s hard to believe that I wrote some of that crap.

Incidentally, I was tagged by Doug Haslam. I’ve linked to my responses.

http://christinelu.com/index.php/8-Things-You-Didn-t-Know-About-Me.html

Very cool, thanks for sharing (and Lisa too)

Well..
I was born in Qatar in 83. Moved to Pakistan in 86, lived there till 93 and then moved to Fremont, CA

My major was biology with emphasis in neuroscience. I hate doing lab research but can understand it.

I made my first website in 1997 and added a bunch of links. I had AOL since 96 and used to chat on it alot, and I’ve chatted with people of ALL sorts, from technophile phreakers to brilliant 15 yr olds designing flash right when it came out, to men in yellow smiley face underwear pretending to be young girls to all sorts of people

But I never really learned many technical skills, was too distracted by video games. I did learn the whole aspect of coexisting on the net and communicating with others online. I saw exploits and the way people were carrying themselves online, subtleties you can only learn through participation. But I was young and nobody really guided me, so I never saw any opportunities (sad). Oh well
As a futurist, I’m still interesting in neuroscience, AI, developmental biology, nanotechnology, and transhumanism.

By the way I love music too, although I love to dance. Been doing it since I was young. Won square dancing championships and what not but I love funky/electro house, soca, calypso and some desi music along with hiphop and reggae at times.

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Thanks for sharing, it’s nice to read about more personal stuff about you.

Fresno, huh? My wife is from Bakersfield, the armpit of Ca

Jeff
jeff.tippettATcalvertholdingsDOTcom