Tagged: five things you didn't know about me!
Ferret tagged me to come up with five things that haven't previously been published. This was harder then I expected. I kept thinking about things from the past - such as my childhood - and about other people I am close to.
Anyway, here goes:
1) I really enjoy public speaking. This might seem odd, because I am usually a quiet person.
2) I have got into the habit of doing logic problems just before I go to sleep. I don't necessarily expect to finish them at one bedtime. At the moment I am working my way through a collection of 16x16 sudokos.
3) I don't diet. I never count calories or carbs or fat grams or whatever. I just eat what I want, when I want it and don't eat what I don't want when I don't want it. However, my BMI is firmly in the normal zone.
4) You can see a thatched cottage from my kitchen window. Two other houses that are close to mine were built before 1775: over 200 years before ours.
5) I have forgotten more about the vi text editor then most people ever know.
(Vi is the standard text editor for the UNIX operating system, and I worked for a company that was writing software to test the operating system. I had to write the test case for vi, and it had to test every option in the specifications. Unfortunately, I have forgotten most of them. Linux and MacOS are both based on UNIX.)
I won't be tagging anyone specifically, but if you want to do this on your blog, feel free to count yourself as tagged.
5 comments:
I love your facts. I am another vi fan, but I know I don't use a fraction of it. Tet who I live with, does know vi. I think he was thinking about doing a talk on it at a conference at some point. It is the one true way :)
I do of course think you are really weird now, liking public speaking! I wouldn't have thought it of you :)
I hardly use vi these days, and I seem to use about three options. I like knowing that the other options are there though.
I put in about the public speaking because most people wouldn't expect it of me. My school provided us with more oppurtunities then most schools, so I think I got over any fear of it quite young.
Wow, vi... haven't used it since I finished work, so about 10 years. :)
I used to work on the Help Desk for the Unix based system we ran and so was very familiar with it.
I am very jealous of your non-dieting. Admittedly I'm not dietng either but my BMI is not doing so well. :D
Cool facts, thank you.
Wow, vi... haven't used it since I finished work, so about 10 years. :)
I used to work on the Help Desk for the Unix based system we ran and so was very familiar with it.
I am very jealous of your non-dieting. Admittedly I'm not dietng either but my BMI is not doing so well. :D
Cool facts, thank you.
Wow, vi... haven't used it since I finished work, so about 10 years. :)
I used to work on the Help Desk for the Unix based system we ran and so was very familiar with it.
I am very jealous of your non-dieting. Admittedly I'm not dietng either but my BMI is not doing so well. :D
Cool facts, thank you.
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