My fellow blogger and physical acquaintance (been missing the drama classes, I must say) Stephanie has "tagged" me with a "meme." These are blog-speak for "chain letter with interesting sequelae" but it's the first time this happened to me, so I'm game.
Rules
1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
I probably can't come up with 7 random people, but I can find 7 blogs I have on my bookmark bar.
My wife has been a politician until last week, so my sample will be biased towards the ok to talk about in public.
1. Simon Donaldson once said I had a good proof.
2. I personally helped to design and implement a feature to a software product that was excoriated on comp.risks (sending one's forgotten password unencrypted in an email to an AIM user that forgot their password).
3. The foreign languages I've studied in school (and once could read at least as well as a first grader in that land) were Attic Greek, Classic Latin, and Old English.
4. The live musical experience of my life that I'd say was the most mind-blowing was the World Saxophone Quartet. They managed a density of amazing musical complexity that rivals a good six part fugue, and were cool to boot.
5. I am secretly pleased when my daughter gets the same criticism in school that I got (slow in the early grades, and had to take remedial PE in first grade). I try hard to not be convinced that this means she is fated for scholastic greatness.
6. My high school (where I learned that money and happiness are effectively unrelated) was mentioned by name in the Preppy Handbook of the 1980s.
7. When I turned 30, I shaved my head bald. I just turned 40 last Friday and I may well do it again.
Blogs I'm reading:
Hard Core Zen
Hurricane blog at wunderground
These are all big established blogs that have never heard of me and would be annoyed if I tagged them, so I won't be mentioning it to anyone.
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