Ten Things I've Done that You Probably haven't...

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1) 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.

Comments

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

You win the internet.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

(3) Howdja do that?

[franseca.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely say I have not done any of those things. Maybe in a few years I'll have an interesting list to post -- this'd sure make an interesting meme to see what people come up with.

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.

9 out of 10 right (maybe 9.5)

[heracolyte.livejournal.com]

The only one I've come close in is being a reasonably significant contributor to an upcoming Oreilly technical book and a smaller part in some other books.

I really like #6 and #8 would have been very cool (err hot?).

[corvidophile.livejournal.com]

out of all of those #3 scares me the most...

the closest i've been to an erupting volcano was a week after we left, the mountain we lived on in Hawaii erupted.

[sub-musashi.livejournal.com]

1) Did they give you any trouble since it was so widely available? I know a lot of publishers won't touch things that are already out there.

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?