* I biked 5000+ miles across the US, in high school
* I've traveled to 6 out of 7 continents
* I've managed to stretch undergrad out into a seven year fiasco
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#132* I built a distributed search engine for my final year college project, when my teachers and friends told me I was taking on too much. It survived two project mates walking out, and some rather dumb ones pushed in. I got a 97 for it, and consider it THE accomplishment of my college years. * Wrote an indexing program in C that crashed a Netware network. :P * I've read the Bhagwad Gita, the Koran, the Bible and the Ta…
Distributed Search Engine, can you kindly shed some light on that?
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#133* I biked 5000+ miles across the US, in high school * I've traveled to 6 out of 7 continents * I've managed to stretch undergrad out into a seven year fiasco
Is Antarctica the missing one?
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#134I woke up on time this morning.
I built a personal point scoring system where one of the awards was "waking up on time." So +1 for that. +3 if you floss your teeth tonight.
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#135I played at CBGB.
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#136I woke up on time this morning.
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#137* Worked on the special effects of Starship Troopers.
* Built an ecommerce site that has handled over $2 million in sales.
* Went snorkeling with a couple of American actors in Australia during my honeymoon.
* Ran the website for a non-profit film festival for the past 6 years bringing movies to a town that is about as far from Hollywood as you can get.
* Currently working on two startups ... one funded, and one of my own.
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#138I invented walking and chewing gum at the same time
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#139* standard "taught myself" a lot of various tech skills. i like to solve problems with an arduino where applicable.
* had a brief career as a professional martial artist many years ago. you could also technically say that i was a professional magic: the gathering player, too.
* i technically dismembered my left arm. it got better.
* i'm not an olympian, but i know quite a few, including medal winners. on a related note, i train and compete on the higher levels of sport fencing, and used to do the same for other martial arts.
* i'm working a full-time job, trying to bootstrap a startup, and working on writing a book.
* my canonical bacon number is 3. non-canonical is 2.