Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me
Jul 12
Former co-worker and friend, Scott Hanselman, just posted his Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me. Funny and interesting at the same time.
So to kick-off my new blog design and to celebrate it’s long, long hiatus, here’s my Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me.
- It drives me insane when people don’t get to the point. I love languages and can speak quite a few, but when it comes to communication with me, please be succinct.
- Entrepreneurship is in my blood. When I was seven years old, I cut out an ad for seeds in my Avengers comic and sent it off in a SASE for for those of you who actually remember what a SASE is. A few weeks later, I got a letter in the mail saying that my seeds were on their way. When the seeds arrived, I promptly gave them to my mom and told her to sell them to all her friends on the military base where we were saying. Seeds were sent back the next day, but I got to keep the Sea Monkeys #win!, and my mail was monitored for the next 6 months. But I got an A for initiative. That was only the beginning.
- In high school, I got a few bad grades on purpose and skipped 52 consecutive days of 1st period band class. I was getting an A anyway from the band teacher – nudge, nudge, wink, wink. But he couldn’t even hide my absence from his class for 52 days. Why did I do this? well to avoid being tagged as a nerd of course. Didn’t help.
- I have an uncanny ability to avoid danger and stay alive. Ran with the bulls in Spain, not a scratch. Was stuck in a riot in Paris during the ’98 World Cup match. Again, nada. Been in a couple of tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, civil wars, redneck bar brawls, mosh pits, thin ice on lakes, marriage. I’m hoping to keep my streak alive for at least another 50+ years.
- Did a bit of modelling when I was a teen. My mom was a model in her teens and had to quit since she got pregnant. So she was living her dream through me. Did a few print ads but that was it. At 21, I applied for this new show on MTV called Real World and got a callback, but I backed-out. I could have been the token black guy instead of Kevin Powell.
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