Blog Tag - 5 ways I'm lame
I'm somehow at the tail end of this thing. I think that everyone I'd pick to tag after I tell my 5 things has already been tapped by someone else. Hmm...
Anyway, here are 5 lesser known things about me. Most of these are pretty old details since I've been detailing pretty much everything about my life since I started blogging in 2003 (at least I think it was 2003).
- It's no secret that I'm fairly comfortable speaking in public in front of audiences of varied size. I've actually got a long history of this. I started in childrens theater where I played the role of Mike T.V. in an Augusta Player's production of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I appeared in something like 6 theater productions through elementary school to high school (I don't remember ages). I moved from theater to the high school policy debate team for my last two years of high school. I frequently won top awards at large state wide competitions for my speaker skills. I also went twice to regional extemporaneous speaking competitions.
- I've worked for several years now with the Atlanta area .NET user groups as an extremely active member and leader. I've got a decently long pedigree of extracurricular group involvement and leadership. In high school I was a member of something like 12 clubs, not that I can remember exactly which ones. I ran one or two of them, including the French Club (I won a $750 scholarship for my high school French prowess). At UGA, I was the Vice President of Resumes/Technology of the Society for Management Information Systems my senior year.
- I gave up my chances of soccer stardom to start my acting career. As a young kid I played on for the Cougars. My first year the team finished second to last. My last year we were in second place. I gave up my acting career to be in the Evans High School Marching Band. I played the flute. Highly embarrassing and a bad decision all around. I gave up the band to join the debate team.
- At some point in all the above kid-oriented activities, I was on the Augusta JCC swim team. I was pretty good too, frequently placing in freestyle and backstroke events.
- I'm almost part of the digital generation. I remember getting our first family PC when I was 7 or 8. My father installed the first 4 color graphics card in it. The external 1X CD-Rom was larger than our VCR. I played a lot of text based games like Zork and the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy (recreated online here!). My first game console was the Sega Genesis (although I have distant memories of Coleco and Atari games, I can't swear I owned those). I personally purchased an Xbox on Nov 18th 2001 (3 days after it came out) and I currently have at the house 2 Xbox 360s, 1 Sony PSP, 1 desktop PC, and 4 laptops (2 are owned by work).
OK. That's 5 things about me. Looking back at that list, it's not very impressive. Mostly it just shows that I'm lame and that I've been lame for quite a while now. No awesome skateboard tricks, no guitar riffs. Oh well.
Now I'm supposed to tap 5 other people. Fine. In an all Canadian theme, let's hear from Rob Zelt, Amanda Murphy, Shane Perran, D'Arcy Lussier, and Wes MacDonald.
Get to work!