Five Things Most People Don’t Know Me

I was tagged for this fad by Kent Bye, who was tagged by his wife Jen, who was tagged by Jannie Jan, who was tagged by Chris Ritke,  who was tagged by Markus Sandy, who was tagged by Josh Leo, who got double-tagged by both Casey/Rudy and Chris Brogan! Casey/Rudy were tagged by Zadi Diaz, who was tagged by Steve Garfield, who was tagged by Jeff Pulver.

I find it fascinating to trace this path backwards, in search of the Patient Zero who brought this meme back after blogging with African monkeys.

1. I can turn off my hiccups at will, and have had some success in others as well.
2. When I was 11, I won a dinner for myself and my mother by guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar at church. I simply applied the math I was learning in school, which I figured everybody knew.
3. I used to work as a foot messenger one summer. Best job ever for thinking about philosophy. I used to perturb my friend Rob with conundrums to the point where he ended up getting a Philosophy BS.
4. When I was 4 I overheard a pundit pronounce that "Nixon is down the drain". I grabbed a flashlight and went to the sink.
5. I love Will & Grace.

I am now tagging Mary, Barnita, Adriana, Matt, and Josh Wolf!

Comments

[marynificent]

http://marynificent.livejournal.com/147310.html

i'm an open book. if i haven't said it yet, i probably never will. does this entry count? i can't think of anything else off hand :)

[Chris Brogan...]

Okay, I laughed about the Nixon comment, but I find these things *so* fun to read. I realize they're silly on one hand, but on the other, think about how little we know about each other in this world.

When I first met you, I was teasing you about Mike being a "suit" at PodCamp. I'm sure I left a crappy first impression. Call it a flaw. : )

But the story about the jellybeans was really cool, and I was thinking, "I've NEVER been able to figure out those things," and then you go on to tell me it's OBVIOUS? So now you have to tell me, if you remember, how do you compute such things?

--Chris...

[charleshope]

Hey Chris,

You didn't leave any bad impression at all!

I knew that the volume was the height times the circular area. I got the circular area from πr². I may have estimated r on sight, or perhaps I counted the number of beans in the circumference and divided that by 2π.