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Fat Bloke tagged me, so here are 5 things you (probably) didn't know about me:

1) I started playing musical instruments at about 6 years old and have spent time as an artist, producer, and audio engineer with varying degrees of (very limited) success.

2) When one of the startups I worked for had financial issues and couldn't make payroll, I become a blackjack dealer for a short period of time. I wrote code at night to fulfill a large contract so the company could resume paying us and dealt blackjack during the day to pay the immediate bills. As a result, I can add up to 21 pretty well, as you might expect.

3) I won a National Association of Amateur Bowlers title almost 15 years ago.

4) "Almost died" is probably stretching it a bit, but I was in a very bad position, hanging upside down and underwater strapped into Honda Pilot when I was a teenager. I had gone over a jump, rolled in midair and landed upside down in a couple of feet of water from the runoff of a dirt bike cleaning area. I was able to get my mouth above water to breathe and thankfully a couple of people saw the incident and rushed down to flip the ATV over.

5) I worked on what the company claimed was the world's first Blue Book Enhanced CD (mixed CD audio and computer data) title, Prestige Studios of the World. I wonder now if it really was the first, but it was certainly at least one of the first titles available in that format. With the emergence of DVD, Enhanced CDs became less relevant, but that was a fun time to be working in multimedia. I also got a couple of trips to Skywalker Ranch out of the deal, which was nice.

Tagging:

Perley, Chris, Steviet (again), Tim, Jean-Etienne

Posted at 08:21PM Jan 25, 2007 by Chris in Personal  |