Everyone likes an Interweb meme! I was tagged by Elizabeth Naramore (thanks! and my jokes are totally awesome!) with Seven Things, so I’m supposed to tell you seven things about me. So here we go!
- I still drive my first car: an awesome ‘92 Ford Crown Victoria, silver with stylish red vinyl on the inside. It caught on fire once but we put it out with a cup of coffee (the amazing part being convincing a Seattle native to surrender his coffee for any cause).
- I originally wanted to study math in college, but then I found a job at an Interwebs startup called ScreamingMedia, where I learned PHP (yay, .php3 files!). Eventually, I switched my major to computer science.
- I once worked at Amazon.com, on the Books/Music/Videos/DVD parts of the site where the QA department featured a real rocket scientist (she used to work for NASA).
- I know how to construct a trebuchet, use a blow torch and have built a small remote-controlled solar-powered car once.
- My first interaction with a computer was on a green screen, typing dir *.*
- I had a story published in The New York Times once (in the “Metropolitan Diary” column, but still!)
- I miss the tiled website backgrounds of the late 1990’s.
I am hereby tagging these individuals:
- Matt Purdon for always staying on top of new technology and never settling for comfort when coding.
- Cal Evans for always starting his day with a cheerful Twitter message.
- Paul Reinheimer for bringing the meat from America’s Hat.
- Ed Finkler for nicer web design than the rest of us combined!
- Brandon Savage for pointing out that I can’t count to 7!
These are the rules apparently:
- Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
- Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some wierd.
- Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
- Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.
