The Ten Things Meme

[cdybedahl]

I don't know if I there are ten things I've done that nobody on my friends list have. I mean, if my life was any interesting I wouldn't have to read about yours, would I? But let's give it a shot.

I have...

1. Made a radio show where one piece of feedback we got was "It annoyed me so much that I couldn't turn it off".
2. Walked around alone in the middle of the night in Sweden's National Museum.
3. Dated an Alexandrian High Priestess (with my wife's permission).
4. Called my mom and asked her to send me a kilogram of plastic smurfs.
5. Scared off two Jehova's Witnesses without saying a word (or touching them in any way).
6. Written and distributed a Perl module where the code got described by Randal Schwartz as "insane" (Archive::Tar versions 0.01 to 0.07, and you can still find them via CPAN if you're curious).
7. Suggested an addition to the INTERCAL programming language that made one of the original designers (Don Woods) reply with "Just thinking about it makes my head hurt".
8. Placed so incredibly last in a sailing competition that they towed me the last bit to the finishing line so I wouldn't be in the way of the next heat.
9. Run a fandom mailing list for more than twelve years.
10. Heard Orac complain about the food.

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

4) What possible use could you have for a kilo of plastic smurfs?!

5) How?

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I took a course about movies one summer at University, and it included making a short (five miuntes) film. My group chose to make a film about a student who crams too hard before an exam and starts thinking he's being followed by smurfs. So of course we needed stunt smurfs. One of them ended up cut to pieces, for the showdown fight at the end.

I was on my way out when they rang the doorbell, so I had my coat on. On that coat I had a button that said "The Goddess is alive!". They looked at me, looked at the button, looked at the button some more, then they said "We have to go now" and hurried away. It wasn't until they were already a couple of meters away that I saw that they both carried a bunch of copies of "The Watchtower".