Ten Things I've Done that You Probably Haven't (and if you have, do tell!)

[vvvexation]

Seen in several people's journals, but I like cyan_blue's title the best.

At various times in my life, I have:

1. Snitched an entire cream pie from a school dining hall
2. Attended the funeral of someone I'd never met
3. Gatecrashed a couple of complete strangers' wedding reception
4. Sung in an opera
5. Joined the drum circle in Sproul Plaza
6. Won a medal at a state archery tournament
7. Had Douglas Hofstadter sign my birth certificate
8. Recited "Jabberwocky" in full while simultaneously writing out something completely unrelated using a friend's back for a desk
9. Stayed in a dorm with Kelsey Grammer's daughter
10. Had to explain that goth != asexual

Details and elaborations, of course, available by request.

Comments

[gatopreto.livejournal.com]

7. Had Douglas Hofstadter sign my birth certificate That's cool. I recently rediscovered my copy of Metamagical Themas, probably given to me in '86 or '87 by an aunt and uncle. Do all math geeks have people like Hofstadter sign their birth cirtificates or is he your father?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I think a few math geeks and a lot of cogsci geeks. We're not related, although I incidentally have somewhere in my possession a letter to my dad from Martin Gardner.