The "Five things I've done that you probably haven't" Meme

[jducoeur]

Coming late to the party, as usual, but what the heck:

1. Navigated for an airplane at age seven.
2. Demonstrated (the hard way) why one should always wear a bicycle helmet.
3. Built the first known board for a game that hadn't been played for ~700 years.
4. Written a technical article that was obsolete before it was published.
5. Proven that it is possible (if deeply unwise) to turn a single-player videogame into a multi-player one.

(Was going to list "Participated in every extant Carolingian guild", but on review there are still two or three I haven't done yet...)

Comments

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

#1…I suppose it depends how you define ‘navigated for.’ If that includes things like charts and navaids, then you've got me beat by a few years. If that means sitting in the right seat of a small plane and pointing at things out the window, then I started doing that when a friend of the family got his pilot's license when I was three years old. Some of my earliest memories are of the cockpit of a plane, and I was following along on the yolk before I could reach the rudder peddles.

[jducoeur]

If that means sitting in the right seat of a small plane and pointing at things out the window

Yep, that's what I meant. My father's more or less always owned his own plane, so he had me taking the maps and matching them to the terrain on nice VFR days from a pretty early age. (I don't actually remember when I started, although I'm sure it was by age seven...)