8 things you probably didn’t know about me

I got tagged by Ben Winter-Giles with 8 things meme, prob­ably in revenge ;-) for my intro­duc­tion of him at Web Dir­ec­tions South 07.

For those who haven’t heard about the 8 things meme yet:

The rules :

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.

Here are eight things you prob­ably didn’t know about me:

1. I got intro­duced to hexa­decimal at the age of 10 by two com­puter boffins (hey it was 1971 and any­body used com­puters was a boffin). The boffins where at a quiet career night with a com­pu­ter­ised math­em­at­ical quiz. They decided to show a pre­cious 10 year old that you could answer in decimal or hexa­decimal. Which went really well for five minutes, until the 10 year typed in “please can I have harder ques­tions” and I crashed my first computer.
2. I went to high school with Gary aka Tuna aka Man with No Blog. His stream got to do com­puter pro­gram­ming aka play­ing with punch cards, I got to do advanced cook­ing as the only boy in a class of 20 girls instead.
3. The closest I ever got to any train­ing in graphic design was help­ing my sis­ter with her assign­ments while she was study­ing graphic design in return for help in typ­ing my assign­ments for my degree in psychology.
4. I suffered brain dam­age as the res­ult of a car doing a uturn in front of my mov­ing motor­cycle. I have seen the scans my brain is not a pretty sight, there is roughly 10 to 20% that does not work.
5. I have an excep­tional good memory though I do not always show it with words or names. It got me through school and uni­ver­sity. I was wor­ried that brain dam­age was affect­ing my memory, so I got tested twice after the acci­dent. I was off the scale both times (top 0.1% of pop­u­la­tion). I freaked out the psy­cho­lo­gist who did the tests, by say­ing I remembered the ques­tions from the intel­li­gence test twelve months earlier, so I googled the answers before attend­ing the second test.
6. If you are not care­fully, I will make appear­ance on your tv via Rage late at night. I had roles in two Jebediah film clips, Jerks of Atten­tion and Teflon. I am the guy with the bright red hair, leather pants and chained to a sink.
7. Nick­obec which is my user­name on a lot of for­ums, came about because I needed an yahoo email address a long time ago when it was lim­ited to 8 char­ac­ters and nick@yahoo.com was taken, so instead of nick17 which was sug­ges­ted by Yahoo, I choose nick­obec because that was the user­name I was given for an online FBPro foot­ball league I was play­ing at the time. First four char­ac­ters of my name, plus four char­ac­ter team moniker for my team the Ober­lin Coyotes. My town was chosen based on the record of the Ober­lin Col­lege foot­ball team, which at that stage was 44 game los­ing streak (a US col­lege record). I star­ted using nick­obec in for­ums whenever nick was already taken. who said I could count ;-)
8. I do play com­puter games, but I stick to older ones, I have spent a lot of time play­ing the ori­ginal Civil­iz­a­tion. Still have not been able to con­quer the world, with six other civil­iz­a­tions at the emperor level before 800AD.
9. Like most of the Perth Port80 Posse I am addicted to Five Senses Cof­fee. Burton’s Blend is my favourite.

Nor­mally I don’t like tag­ging people in memes, so this is a clayton’s tag, ignore it, unless you feel the need. Except for Sarah, you need to blog. So in no par­tic­u­lar order:

• Sarah just to add to the pres­sure to get her to post to her blog for the first time in a while.
• Raena has rebooted her blog (cleaned of the old con­tent) and here is the chance to add new content.
• Miles because there are some really unusual ran­dom facts about Miles that he let slip dur­ing late night social­ising ses­sion, that need to published.
• Kay I just want to find out about the goat­lady moniker.
• Myles aka Mad­pi­lot I want to find the ori­gin of Madpilot.
• Bron­wen because Browen will beat me up if she missed out ;-)
• You, because I never know enough about the people who reg­u­larly read this blog.

And I know that is only seven, but some­times I just feel the need to break the rules.

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