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 In fact, while all knowledge of FORTRAN has long since been archived out of accessible memory, I have the distinction of being the only person I know of who has used knowledge of FORTRAN as an interrogation tool.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....