Ten things meme

[kengr]

(stolen from almost everyone)
Ten things I don't think anyone else on my flist has done

1. gone skinny dipping in the snow. (Yes, walk thru snow on ground to natural body of water, jump in. swim for a bit get out, walk back to clothes)
2. dressed as a Buddhist monk, complete with shaved head.
3. Worn a dress while sporting a full beard.
4. taken 550 V AC across the chest (from one hand to the other, stupid accident)
5. reported a ROM BIOS error and later noted that the error was corrected on the new machines in stores.
6.fed cake to a hunky porn star.
7. keypunched my own FORTRAN IV programs
8. written a login/password harvester
9. installed illegal phone extensions
10. helped hack a mainframe
bonus
11. Own (not owned) a TRS-80 Model I
12. Been BBS sysop
13. Am a member of Fidonet

Comments

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not sure which version of FORTRAN I learned, but I did punch cards for classroom programs in high school (circa 1979). In fact, while all knowledge of FORTRAN has long since been archived out of accessible memory, I have the distinction of being the only person I know of who has used knowledge of FORTRAN as an interrogation tool. While I can't really discuss the details, I can give the moral of the story:

Don't claim "computer programmer" as a cover story unless you are dead certain that hostile interrogators can't find, among their number, someone who knows more about programming than you do. Someone once made that mistake; he turned a lovely shade of pale when I demonstrated superior knowledge of a programming language (FORTRAN) he had claimed to know at a professional level....

Sigh

[sailorjim.livejournal.com]

1. Yup, while stationed in Michigan.
2. Yup, I won a coveted role in a production of The King and I when I was a teenager by being willing to shave my head (they'd run out of bald wigs) and, as a matter of fact, I did play some sort of monk (I dunno if it was Buddhist or not, but this gotta be close enough).
3. Yup (Don't ask).
4. Nope, but close.
5. Nope, not even close.
6. Well, if you make that shrimp and change the "hunky" to "stacked," yup.
7. Been there, done that (still have some of the damn cards).
8. No idea what that means.
9. Hasn't everyone?
10. Military mainframe, at that.
11. Nope.
12. No (thank God).
13. Not even of Pussynet.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Me three on #7. Remember, you're talking to a fair number of Old Phart Programmers here!

[badriya.livejournal.com]

13. Is that the bbs newsgroups we used before This Internet Thang? I used bbs and the UK nationwide system, Prestel. The bbs carried newsgroups from the UK and US too. The one I used regularly was The Templar's Rest, which took US groups, but there was also The Animation Station, Drealm, and a few more.

Um...

[seawasp]

...#7, 8, and 10, I've done.