8 Things You Didn't Know About Me

By Dennis D. McDonald

OK, in response to Luis Suarez’s “tagging game” challenge, here is my list of 8 things you didn’t know about me:

1. My Confirmation name is Peter.
2. My favorite firework is this one.
3. I once built a phonograph out of spare parts.
4. One of my children might be part Swedish.
   
5. Sometimes when we are driving long distances I read out loud to my wife.
6. Years ago I stopped working while on airplanes and started sleeping on them instead.
7. Somewhere in my attic is a box of 80-column punch cards containing all my dissertation data.
8. Being an independent consultant is fun but I would enjoy a long term gig!

Here are the rules of this tagging game:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. List EIGHT random facts about yourself.
3. Tag EIGHT people at the end of your post and list their names.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

And here are the people I’m tagging:

1. David Stephenson
2. Paul Hyland
3. Peter Turner
4. D. Keith Casey
5. Nik Kalyani
6. Isaac Pigott
   
7. Mark Scrimshire
   
8. Wendy Harman
   

Comments

[Luis Suarez]

Hi Dennis! WOW! Interesting stuff! Thanks for picking up the challenge! I didn't know that you were into fireworks and everthing! Over here people go really crazy on New Year's Eve and it is just a show worth while on its own! Although when I was living in The Netherlands it was way worse!! I bet you would enjoy these times in either country! :-D

Oh, I wish I could sleep in airplanes like you are able to do. Alas no such luck with me ...

[Nik Kalyani]

Hi Dennis,

A bit late, but I finally posted my list: http://www.techbubble.net/2008/01/05/8+Things+You+Didnt+Know+About+Me.aspx

I pretty much always sleep on planes too. The only exception is when I can score a bulkhead seat which allows you to work on your laptop without being at the mercy of the person seated ahead of you.

[Lee Aase]

I subscribe to your blog, so how didn't I get this one?

[Dennis D. McDonald]

Lee:

The feed you subscribe to is for the "Managing Technology" section of my blog (http://www.ddmcd.com/managing-technology/rss.xml) which is where I publish 95% of my content. Turns out I published the "8 things" post in one of the other sections that has its own separate feed (http://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/rss.xml). This is a carry over from the early days of my blog when I actively published 4 separate sections (managing technology, living with technology, book reviews http://www.ddmcd.com/books/rss.xml and movie reviews http://www.ddmcd.com/movies/rss.xml