I've been aware of this silly game of tag for some time now (I refuse to say Meme, just like I refused to say blogosphere). I suppose being picked now is better  than not being picked at all (just like in 7th grade gym class and the coach has to assign you to a team).   The "Attaboy" award goes to Scott Guthrie for getting the #1 Google Result for "Five Things You Might Not Know About Me" (although admittedly there are many variations on the title).  

Thanks to Simone Chiaretta for reminding me of 7th grade gym class, and of this scene from Little Miss Sunshine:

Dwayne: I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all this crap- high school and everything- just skip it.
Frank: You know Marcel Proust?
Dwayne: He's the guy you teach.
Frank: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh- he gets down to the end of his life... and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered- Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18... Ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school- Those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that.

Not a bad movie if you're looking for something to rent. Decent cast; definitely some recognizable faces in there. So, onto my list of 5 things you might not know about me:

1) Although the first computer of my very own was a 386 DX 40 Mhz, I spent considerable time gaming and running code from the last issues of "Compute!" magazine on my Dad's Commodore 64 and Vic-20. I even tried coding my own King's Quest/Zork style adventure game.

2) During my high school years, I earned myself a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I kicked ass, broke wooden boards with my bare hands, and got trophy's at tournaments karate-kid style (minus the silly crane-stance jump kick). I loved doing the scissor take down; you leap towards your oppenent like you're going to do a flying sidekick, and then you put one leg in front of his chest, and the other behind his legs, and then twist him down to the mat.

3) I graduated from Cornell University with a degree in music (Some say I have some skill playing the Violin and Piano). I got booted from the CS program because I couldn't handle all the math and theory. My favorite class was Logic and Discrete Structures, whereby I earned a big... fat.... juicy... "F". That's right; just as if I had not gone to class at all, not done the homework, not taken the final exam. What made it worse was that the professor was my academic advisor! The kind of pompous "I'd rather be doing my own research work than teaching this class or helping you out" prick you hope is never your advisor.

4) I bought myself a motorcycle and have logged just over 7,000 miles so far.

5) I went skydiving once. Here I am with some guy strapped to my back (not that there was anything wrong with that)

Wow, that was almost 10 years ago.

Now I have the problem that all the highly visibility folks I'd want to tag have already been tagged. Could it be that I really am last?

How about:

1) Jared Del Prete (BOTW Editor-in-Chief, "C.O.O", "Teh HNIC", and all around nice guy)

2) Roger Montti (Search Engine Marketing Jedi turned to the BOTW side)

3) Matt (last name withheld for security purposes? , don't let his age or lack of surname fool you, he's as smart as you or I) 

4) Joan Vasquez (BOTW Editor,and telecommuting entrepreneur)

5) Liz (last name withheld for lack-of-stalking purposes.  Customer Service and Inventory Specialist for Hotel Hotline) or Rob Schmid (BOTW Product Manager), whoever starts blogging first.

Liz might register a domain and get a blog if you promise you're not going to stalk her.  Rob doesn't think you need to hear his insights on borat and southpark.

You'll see them soon though, because now they have to respond to this