Matthieu tagged me, so here are five things that you probably didn't know:
- I spent the first few years of my life living out in the sticks in southwest Washington where we had a half-mile gravel driveway and a quarter-acre vegetable garden. We moved to the city after a huge fir tree smashed the mobile home we were living in.
- I've been in two bands in my life, a one funk-ish band (1989) that made an EP in a dinky studio in Milwaukee, OR, and a rap band (1990) called "MC Extra Cheese and DJ PRB", where I was the sampler and mixer master.
- I don't need much sleep, although I seem to feel better if I sleep either more than seven hours or less than four and get a ten minute nap in the afternoon in either case.
- My first Java program was a 3,000-line hand-written parser that turned a narrative document in the file format of an ancient version of WordPerfect for DOS into XML. It worked great...
- I have always been slower multiplying either 6×9 or 7×8 than other combinations of digits.
And because I can, I'll tag Bob McWhirter, Dan, Brian, Crazy Bob, and Jeff.
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