1. I broke grandpa's TV at age 2 -- but to this day, I'm
still NOT sure how I pulled that off.
2. I lost a shoe while being carried around at the zoo, also at age 2, and wasn't discovered until about two hours later. The shoe, to this day, remains missing. Be on the lookout for it.
3. I got rejected for four years straight for taking flying lessons until the flight school owner got tired of saying no and figured he might as well as take my money.
4. First Mac was the SE in 1987 running System 5.0.something. That and Microsoft Word came on a couple of 800K HFS floppies. Ah, remember these days?
5. It's a really long story, but I once was unwittingly given some cash stolen from America's then-biggest armored truck heist of over $10 million in 1990 (right by my alma mater, no less!), years later. The FBI searched really hard for years and eventually fingered an Irish priest, the armored truck driver (who burnt some of the money in a BBQ grill before the cops arrived), his father, and a few others. Crazy case.
6. Walked up the Netherlands' highest church's staircase -- by the last 25m, I was literally on my hands and knees in total darkness. Fun experience.
7. I once hit on a nasty mainframe bug and killed it merely by pressing an innocuous key on my terminal. Oops.
8. 230 kph on a German highway once. Afterwards, 100 kph seemed like crawling.
9. Good childhood friend and classmate of a Harvard grad and now an university professor elsewhere. Her husband was my classmate at another high school a few states away. Small world, huh?
10. Once told a cute young lady (years ago) that she wasn't such so cute when she was plastered. I don't think she was amused.

11. Missed the last bus and got stuck at a major DC-area mall (northern Virginia) when it closed, along with two other friends when I was 14. Buddies went to play arcade games even though the screen was down, security guard wasn't thrilled with babysitting, and the school was
FURIOUS -- days of detention followed. In middle of all this, a drunk guy offered to drive us back to the school despite his girlfriend screaming 'are you crazy?!' at him. We nearly took him up on that offer!
12. Enjoyed frozen chunks of raw whale and caribou meat with some pretty cool eskimos in the arctic last winter.
13. Thinking about a trip to see Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the Australian outback and also hike the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu in Peru sometime. Pointers gratefully appreciated.
14. Once unintentionally ate all the chicken fingers at a friend's house one busy night of gaming years ago. To this day, his step-mother still jokes about it but at least I've finally paid off that debt!
15. No car accident yet. Probably just jinxed myself just now.
16. Conversed briefly with doctor in Russian, which was fun.
17. Grandpa's boss was none other than J. Edgar Hoover for a while... and then later, a well-known President of the United States. He didn't mention his boss' fondness for cross-dressing, though.
18. Only 48 songs to my name in iTunes -- and all of them are Blue Man Group. Yeah, baby! They rock!
19. First dabbled with HTML in May 1993.
20. Crusty old fart.
