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seawasp1) Published a book with a major publisher which had been (mostly) available online for years previously.
2) Ran a PBEM D&D game starting in early 1978.
3) Eaten an entire McDonald's regular hamburger in one bite.
4) Discovered that either I am immune to a particular species of venomous jellyfish, or that they simply refuse to sting me (species Cyanea Capillata, the Lion's Mane), by encountering them accidentally three times.
5) Forged a beam hook from plain stock iron in a real coal-fired forge.
6) Convinced a large number of bullies that a small neon tube device actually contained enough power to blow them to kingdom come.
7) Won an SBIR grant from NASA.
8) Flown over the erupting Hekla volcano in Iceland in 1970.
9) Owned (and still own) the three-volume set "Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals" by Bruce W. Halstead.
10) Hit a tree so hard that it exposed bone and sent me flying through the air to land on top of a parked car, without loss of consciousness or even particular pain, with results to the tree branch that could be seen more than a year later.
2) Ran a PBEM D&D game starting in early 1978.
3) Eaten an entire McDonald's regular hamburger in one bite.
4) Discovered that either I am immune to a particular species of venomous jellyfish, or that they simply refuse to sting me (species Cyanea Capillata, the Lion's Mane), by encountering them accidentally three times.
5) Forged a beam hook from plain stock iron in a real coal-fired forge.
6) Convinced a large number of bullies that a small neon tube device actually contained enough power to blow them to kingdom come.
7) Won an SBIR grant from NASA.
8) Flown over the erupting Hekla volcano in Iceland in 1970.
9) Owned (and still own) the three-volume set "Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals" by Bruce W. Halstead.
10) Hit a tree so hard that it exposed bone and sent me flying through the air to land on top of a parked car, without loss of consciousness or even particular pain, with results to the tree branch that could be seen more than a year later.
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Date: 2005-02-20 01:02 am (UTC)I already DID!
Date: 2005-02-20 01:08 am (UTC)Re: I already DID!
Date: 2005-02-21 05:46 pm (UTC)Re: I already DID!
Date: 2005-02-21 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-20 09:48 am (UTC)Well...
Date: 2005-02-20 11:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 05:44 pm (UTC)RYN - Thank you for the sympathy, I really do appreciate it.
Oh, and I'll be sending that book out to you sometime this week. I am almost done with Diamonds Are Forever -- I was savoring it the entire week after Genericon, and then ended up putting it down last weekend and haven't had the chance to pick it up again this week. Inexcuseable, I know, but I wasn't home much last week and I can be rather picky about my reading time.
You're welcome.
Date: 2005-02-21 07:28 pm (UTC)9 out of 10 right (maybe 9.5)
Date: 2005-02-22 10:03 pm (UTC)I really like #6 and #8 would have been very cool (err hot?).
Re: 9 out of 10 right (maybe 9.5)
Date: 2005-02-23 02:24 pm (UTC)#8 I intend to do again when I get the chance. Well, maybe not Hekla itself, but other volcanoes. Hawaii, for sure. For much of my younger life I wanted to be a volcanologist.
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Date: 2005-02-24 08:26 pm (UTC)the closest i've been to an erupting volcano was a week after we left, the mountain we lived on in Hawaii erupted.
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Date: 2005-02-24 09:46 pm (UTC)2) heh - even running a PnP D&D game in 1978 would put you in a small group!
4) That's really strange - where were you hanging out that they encountered you so many times? ("Roll for wandering monsters") Did your thorough reading of Halstead help protect you?
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Date: 2005-02-25 04:13 am (UTC)Nope, never said a thing about it. And given the sales, they were clearly right to not do so.
2) heh - even running a PnP D&D game in 1978 would put you in a small group!
Not THAT small. As far as I know, though, I was the first in the world to run a PBEM D&D game.
4) That's really strange - where were you hanging out that they encountered you so many times? ("Roll for wandering monsters") Did your thorough reading of Halstead help protect you?
In the summer the things are quite common in Norway, where I was vacationing. I was swimming and encountered one as I surfaced, and I pulled in a couple when I was fishing.