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

[dsrtao]

I made an emergency decision: other people or me? So I aimed for the gap between parked cars, hit the parking meter, and ended up in the middle of the street on my back. The parking meter was sheared away a few inches above the concrete base, and I had an imprint of it in my chest for a while... pure luck that I didn't suffer a concussion or brain damage.

Wear your helmet.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Sheared away? What kind of bicycle were you *on*?

[dsrtao]

A steel-framed mountain bike, predating the era of shock absorbers and built with the objective of safety by right of superior mass.

Metahacker saw the remains, you can ask him.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I didn't know such things existed. Learn something new every day...

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the memorium has been paved over for the new Union...

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

We talked of this for years.

Until he won a disagreement with a bookcase dropped from a second-story window, with his head.

[jducoeur]

Having gotten the concussion (the brain damage has always been debateable) -- oh, yeah...