Not that I have posted much, but here is the 10 things meme....
10 [stupid] things that I have done that most of you have not.
1. Had something I designed, built, tested and flew in the National Air & Space Museum, for which you also earned the National Medal of Technology.
2. Had my sigmoid colon out. BTW barium enemas are not as fun as they sound. ;-)
3. Been in ICU for a week and almost die from peritonitis after two surgeries. BTW, make sure your relatives and friends never let you near a phone when you are drugged to the gills.[1]
4. Made the 11 o'clock news.[2]
5. Launched a satellite that you personally rebuilt in a weekend on the Space Shuttle Endeavour...and got to sit in the Commander's seat...and got personal video of an astronaut kicking your satellite. Oops.
6. Broken your hand punching Charlie Brown in the forehead. He really was a blockhead. :-P [3]
7. Been a hand model for a doll that was in a major Hollywood film. [4]
8. Done a back flip from 75 feet up in a granite quarry.
9. Studied metallurgy in the middle of 80,000 people at a rock concert.
10. Been given a silver dollar by a local at a casino at 7 in the morning, plopping it down on 4 at the roullette wheel, hitting it, giving the guy his dollar back and walking out with $34 in my pocket.
[1] Because they might just call a morning radio program that all of their friends and coworkers listen to, and proceed to tell them a good news/bad news thing, to wit: The bad news is that I am in ICU. The good news is that my balls are the size of grapefruit. [5]
[2] I was interviewed at a Grateful Dead concert here in DC in my blue jeans, tie-dyed shirt, cowboy boots and hat. My answer was that even Rox3t Scientists can be Deadheads!
[3] This punk kid really was named Charlie Brown. He was a bully and had my arm twisted behind my back on the bus. I turned and swung at him. Unfortunately his forehead was my only target. My hand instantly swelled up to twice its normal size.
[4] My artist friend Michael Langton carved the doll Elmer for the movie On Golden Pond, which was filmed near where I grew up. I also helped carve the big board that the cake was on. My mother did the cooking for the movie. It was a fun summer.
[5] Massive edema, from the drugs and surgeries and stuff that tend to swell EVERYTHING. In laymen's terms, I was water-logged.
1. Had something I designed, built, tested and flew in the National Air & Space Museum, for which you also earned the National Medal of Technology.
2. Had my sigmoid colon out. BTW barium enemas are not as fun as they sound. ;-)
3. Been in ICU for a week and almost die from peritonitis after two surgeries. BTW, make sure your relatives and friends never let you near a phone when you are drugged to the gills.[1]
4. Made the 11 o'clock news.[2]
5. Launched a satellite that you personally rebuilt in a weekend on the Space Shuttle Endeavour...and got to sit in the Commander's seat...and got personal video of an astronaut kicking your satellite. Oops.
6. Broken your hand punching Charlie Brown in the forehead. He really was a blockhead. :-P [3]
7. Been a hand model for a doll that was in a major Hollywood film. [4]
8. Done a back flip from 75 feet up in a granite quarry.
9. Studied metallurgy in the middle of 80,000 people at a rock concert.
10. Been given a silver dollar by a local at a casino at 7 in the morning, plopping it down on 4 at the roullette wheel, hitting it, giving the guy his dollar back and walking out with $34 in my pocket.
[1] Because they might just call a morning radio program that all of their friends and coworkers listen to, and proceed to tell them a good news/bad news thing, to wit: The bad news is that I am in ICU. The good news is that my balls are the size of grapefruit. [5]
[2] I was interviewed at a Grateful Dead concert here in DC in my blue jeans, tie-dyed shirt, cowboy boots and hat. My answer was that even Rox3t Scientists can be Deadheads!
[3] This punk kid really was named Charlie Brown. He was a bully and had my arm twisted behind my back on the bus. I turned and swung at him. Unfortunately his forehead was my only target. My hand instantly swelled up to twice its normal size.
[4] My artist friend Michael Langton carved the doll Elmer for the movie On Golden Pond, which was filmed near where I grew up. I also helped carve the big board that the cake was on. My mother did the cooking for the movie. It was a fun summer.
[5] Massive edema, from the drugs and surgeries and stuff that tend to swell EVERYTHING. In laymen's terms, I was water-logged.