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We had no idea they were showing it and I was just watching the keynote and was blown away. So in short I was lead developer of the first game shown on the iPad publicly.
* I am a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon http://upe.acm.org/
* I've been to Tokyo and competed in the web service composition challenge
* I have climbed 2 out of Colorados 53 14ers so far. My goal is all 53 in CO and then the North American continent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteener
* I have surfed big waves in Costa Rica
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Did you get any rewards/recognition from your employer for your work? (I understand that the feeling that your app worked great itself is a big reward).
I know my boss and his bosses really appreciated it, but that was the extent of it.
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Intelligentsia isn't bad, but there's always Metropolis and Asado :)
Metropolis and Asado are kind of hard to get to if you don't live on the North Side. Intelligentsia is nice for those of us who live/work in the loop.
I played at CBGB.
I once read that bands should not list CBGB as an achievement because of the sheer number of acts that perform there. It makes me wonder if that is intended as a humorous comment. Regardless, my musical career never took me that far.
You're right, about 80 million bands played there, so in one sense it's not such an amazing feat.
OTOH, it's just fucking cool. :)
I played there a few times; not sure how many bands got asked back. Getting that first gig was easy. Walked into the club, ran into Hilly Kristal, said I had a band. "Can you bring in 300 people?", "Oh, sure", I lied.
I found out we were playing when I was looking through the Village Voice to see what bands were around and saw Chinese Forehead[0] listed for the next week. :) Apparently some big name act canceled and they tossed together some showcase thing, and neglected to actually tell us. Pre-cell phone days, I guess.
It was a rush, and it was real accomplishment for me. It also cemented my desire to not be a spectator, of trying to get off my ass and get on stage, whatever that stage may happen to be.
It's not the same as becoming a dot-com millionaire or climbing K2, but all the same it I'm quite proud of having written and performed my songs at a world-famous dive. :)
So, for people looking at the list of amazing accomplishments listed in this thread, do not be discouraged.
Pick a goal; work until you reach it; repeat.
[0] For the curious: http://www.jamesbritt.com/chinese-forehead/
I've read this thread half-way trough :)
I don't normally mention this stuff, but since you asked... * I started at university when I was 13. * I won the Putnam Competition. * I hold a world record for computing Pi. * My bsdiff binary patching tool is used on tens of millions of computers and has saved several hundred human-years of waiting for software updates to download. * I found a security bug in an Intel CPU. (Osvik/Shamir/Tromer also found it, but I…