Acidus wrote:
1- I was on the high school swim team for 3 years, and went to the Georgia State swim meet for my junior year. I was supposed to go my senior year, but got kicked off. My crime? While doing a can-opener as my last dive for the last regular swim meet, I purposely mooned the entire crowd, included the superintendent for Cobb County Schools.

2- I've forgotten my mom's brithday on at least 3 different occasions. She's never been mad, just sad.

3- I was born in a hospital less than 2 miles from where I currently work.

4- My Brother has been around the world and climbed some of the tallest mountains. I've never left the western hemisphere and I've only been west of the Mississippi river 5 times, 3 of which were in the last year.

5- I have 2 Hillary Duff songs on an iPod playlist. I sing them when I drive.

Well, we have #3 in common :) I'm surprised you admitted to #5.

Hijexx wrote:

Acidus wrote:
1- I was on the high school swim team for 3 years, and went to the Georgia State swim meet for my junior year. I was supposed to go my senior year, but got kicked off. My crime? While doing a can-opener as my last dive for the last regular swim meet, I purposely mooned the entire crowd, included the superintendent for Cobb County Schools.

2- I've forgotten my mom's brithday on at least 3 different occasions. She's never been mad, just sad.

3- I was born in a hospital less than 2 miles from where I currently work.

4- My Brother has been around the world and climbed some of the tallest mountains. I've never left the western hemisphere and I've only been west of the Mississippi river 5 times, 3 of which were in the last year.

5- I have 2 Hillary Duff songs on an iPod playlist. I sing them when I drive.

Well, we have #3 in common :) I'm surprised you admitted to #5.

What are your 5 things?

Acidus wrote:

Hijexx wrote:

Acidus wrote:
1- I was on the high school swim team for 3 years, and went to the Georgia State swim meet for my junior year. I was supposed to go my senior year, but got kicked off. My crime? While doing a can-opener as my last dive for the last regular swim meet, I purposely mooned the entire crowd, included the superintendent for Cobb County Schools.

2- I've forgotten my mom's brithday on at least 3 different occasions. She's never been mad, just sad.

3- I was born in a hospital less than 2 miles from where I currently work.

4- My Brother has been around the world and climbed some of the tallest mountains. I've never left the western hemisphere and I've only been west of the Mississippi river 5 times, 3 of which were in the last year.

5- I have 2 Hillary Duff songs on an iPod playlist. I sing them when I drive.

Well, we have #3 in common :) I'm surprised you admitted to #5.

What are your 5 things?

Hmm... Never thought about it, but what the yell, this sounds fun!

1. I was raised in a Church of Christ until I was 20 years old. Rarely if ever missed a Sunday service.

2. I enjoyed swordfighting with PVC pipe swords "padded" with pipe insulation and duct tape during my high school years. We'd go nearly year-round every week, meeting up in a local park to wail on each other. We called it "The Guild." Amazed no one was ever seriously hurt.

3. I won a city wide art contest in high school and had a few pieces selected to show at Cheekwood here in Nashville. Never got my artwork back though, it disappeared. Grr... Should have taken pics.

4. I can place $2.50 of quarters in my nose, $1.25 in each nostril. How did I find this out? Boredom.

5. Astronomy was my first intellectual pursuit. My mom sold Worldbook Encyclopedia when I was learning to read and I cut my "teeth" on the Childcraft Space/Astronomy book. The first book I ever checked out of a library was an Astronomy book. When queried what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was always, "An astronomer." When asked did I mean astronaut, I'd say, "No. An astronomer."

Hijexx wrote:
Hmm... Never thought about it, but what the yell, this sounds fun!

1. I was raised in a Church of Christ until I was 20 years old. Rarely if ever missed a Sunday service.

2. I enjoyed swordfighting with PVC pipe swords "padded" with pipe insulation and duct tape during my high school years. We'd go nearly year-round every week, meeting up in a local park to wail on each other. We called it "The Guild." Amazed no one was ever seriously hurt.

3. I won a city wide art contest in high school and had a few pieces selected to show at Cheekwood here in Nashville. Never got my artwork back though, it disappeared. Grr... Should have taken pics.

4. I can place $2.50 of quarters in my nose, $1.25 in each nostril. How did I find this out? Boredom.

5. Astronomy was my first intellectual pursuit. My mom sold Worldbook Encyclopedia when I was learning to read and I cut my "teeth" on the Childcraft Space/Astronomy book. The first book I ever checked out of a library was an Astronomy book. When queried what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was always, "An astronomer." When asked did I mean astronaut, I'd say, "No. An astronomer."

Ok, I seriously want to see #4

Acidus wrote:

Ok, I seriously want to see #4

OZ3 is coming up, I'll start training now hahaha...

Acidus wrote:

What are your 5 things?

1) I once broke up w/ a girl by writing a poem consisting of six stanzas of rhyming couplets.
2) My "to read" pile is now taller than me.
3) I secretly desire to write comedy and one day I will force myself to do stand-up but my delusions of inadequacy complicate the issue.
4) I sometimes experience "auditory hallucinations" that I call the "radio-in-my-head", think of it as an ipod with a programming director that hates me. Yesterday's top song: _Toxic_ by Britney Spears.
5) When I measure, I start at the base of the scrotum because I need the extra inch.

Neoteric wrote:
4) I sometimes experience "auditory hallucinations" that I call the "radio-in-my-head", think of it as an ipod with a programming director that hates me. Yesterday's top song: _Toxic_ by Britney Spears.

Come play with us Timball.

Neoteric wrote:

Acidus wrote:

What are your 5 things?

1) Thinking about the big picture is annoying.
2) I've an absolute fascination for maximizing human potential, and want to just jump to the cool stuff - without having to teach myself how to think again. :/
3) I'd love to do some comedy, but I dont yet know what I could get away with... and I'm too prideful to mention inadequacy.. psych books are interesting.
4) I think waay too much - looking at engineered wasting of time, most would consider to be a waste of time. somehow, it's calming to speculate on motivation.
5) I've gotta learn that reverse speech stuff - might not mean much, but it gets undue respect :P
m a in ly

Acidus wrote:
1- I was on the high school swim team for 3 years, and went to the Georgia State swim meet for my junior year. I was supposed to go my senior year, but got kicked off. My crime? While doing a can-opener as my last dive for the last regular swim meet, I purposely mooned the entire crowd, included the superintendent for Cobb County Schools.

2- I've forgotten my mom's brithday on at least 3 different occasions. She's never been mad, just sad.

3- I was born in a hospital less than 2 miles from where I currently work.

4- My Brother has been around the world and climbed some of the tallest mountains. I've never left the western hemisphere and I've only been west of the Mississippi river 5 times, 3 of which were in the last year.

5- I have 2 Hillary Duff songs on an iPod playlist. I sing them when I drive.

I Love that you mooned the superintendent for Cobb County Schools. Thats just one more reason why you rock. Oh to be a fly on the wall of your car though....tsk tsk....I guess we all have skeletons in our closet.....or on our memestream blog:)

Nanochick wrote:
I Love that you mooned the superintendent for Cobb County Schools. Thats just one more reason why you rock. Oh to be a fly on the wall of your car though....tsk tsk....I guess we all have skeletons in our closet.....or on our memestream blog:)

What are your 5 things?

Acidus wrote:
1- I was on the high school swim team for 3 years
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5- I have 2 Hillary Duff songs on an iPod playlist. I sing them when I drive.

I like this idea. I'm a pretty open book, so this is tough, but here goes...

1. As a child I believed I wanted to be an architect when I grew up. Alas, "drawing" is not among the skills I have found easy to acquire.

2. I once suffered from altitude sickness while at a restaurant perched on the peak of a mountain, while eating an obscure Austrian pastry. This happened on the same day that I was briefly stranded, separated from my parents, knowing the German words only for "milk", "chocolate", "please", "thank you" and "French fries", on that very Austrian mountain, but that's a story that many here will already know.

3. One of my most prized possessions is a small origami swan that belonged to my mother.

4. At the risk of having my geek credentials revoked, i will admit that my relationship with computer programming, etc., began quite late. I didn't write a line of code until my senior year of high school, when I took AP Computer Science. At that time, I embarrassed myself by thinking that "UNIX" was a programming language, and having an almost non-existent relationship with the internet. And being a Mac user before it was cool.

5. I am quite fond of public speaking and leading large meetings, and derive great pleasure from distilling the most relevant bits of information from otherwise broad and far-ranging conversations.

k wrote:

Acidus wrote:
1- I was on the high school swim team for 3 years
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5- I have 2 Hillary Duff songs on an iPod playlist. I sing them when I drive.

Ok, here goes:

1. I rowed crew in High School and was in Band, Chorus, and Choir.
2. I went to Allstate, All Eastern, and All New England for my singing in my Sr. Year of High School.
3. During my military service years, I scored in the top 99% on the ASVAB and graduated #1 in my Advanced Training Class for Military Intelligence. (insert oxymoron joke here)
4. I am an introvert. I put on my outer shell to deal with the world every day.
5. My favorite vegetable is Brussel Sprouts, and I LOVE meatloaf (the food not the group)

Acidus wrote:
1- I was on the high school swim team for 3 years, and went to the Georgia State swim meet for my junior year. I was supposed to go my senior year, but got kicked off. My crime? While doing a can-opener as my last dive for the last regular swim meet, I purposely mooned the entire crowd, included the superintendent for Cobb County Schools.

2- I've forgotten my mom's brithday on at least 3 different occasions. She's never been mad, just sad.

3- I was born in a hospital less than 2 miles from where I currently work.

4- My Brother has been around the world and climbed some of the tallest mountains. I've never left the western hemisphere and I've only been west of the Mississippi river 5 times, 3 of which were in the last year.

5- I have 2 Hillary Duff songs on an iPod playlist. I sing them when I drive.

1- I feel conflicted about posting my top 5 on this blog, because I don't want to look like a hooligan to an investor who might google me.

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5- I shit my pants in a Tibetan refugee hospital in Dharamsala. Wait... I tell everyone that. You probably already knew it.