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I finally gave in to the most recent reindeer game on Facebook. This turned out to be an enjoyable effort.
- 1. Despite countless hours spent gaming up until I was 18 or 19 years old, and the successful completion and mastery of many games, I have never defeated Mike Tyson in the Nintendo classic bearing his name.
- 2. I drive to Dunkin Donuts just about every morning to feed both my own addiction to hazelnut flavored coffee, and my Labrador’s daily scarfing of a single glazed munchkin. The drool is nearly unbearable – his too.
- 3. I’ve read more in the last five years than the preceding 27 combined.
- 4. I’m an avid enthusiast of digital camouflage.
- 5. My proudest moment as a musician was entering the Ryman auditorium from the performer’s side entrance before playing on the Opry. I still have the sticker on my case.
- 6. I once owned over 40 flannel shirts from Abercrombie & Fitch – back when their clothing had its last fading remnant of class – not that flannel imparts classiness.
- 7. I very rarely hear humans expressing rational thoughts on the radio.
- 8. John Mayer’s Continuum would be one of my desert island albums. How extremely rare to find an artist with intellectually rich penmanship, a soulful voice, and instrumental aptitude that’s so highly esteemed.
- 9. I spent nearly ten years of my childhood racing go-karts at the state and national level.
- 10. My wife and I are just about polar opposites. Sam will definitely have an array of ideas and attitudes to emulate.
- 11. I’ve never liked my hair. It’s curly when it’s long, straight when it’s short and I have both a cow-lick and a bald spot from a birthmark. I tried clippers in high school once. Unfortunately the anthropometric summary of my head represents a mathematical anomaly - of which hair is a necessary mitigating agent. Extracting physical appearance as a component of my self-esteem has been a wonderfully rewarding endeavor.
- 12. I think Google Maps, with its current feature set and considering the nature of the web as a software platform, is the single most impressive application I’ve ever used.
- 13. As a 12 year-old I had growing pains so badly on one occasion that I literally could not walk.
- 14. I was oblivious to the potential amount of joy and love that a human can sense until the birth of my son.
- 15. One of my 10-year goals (5 years ago) is to have a fully functional, CNC-enabled machine and woodworking shop at home – It’s currently about 2/3 complete.
- 16. I think America has seen her brightest days.
- 17. Bach’s Prelude No. 1 is my favorite classical piece.
- 18. I’m currently learning to weld and sew.
- 19. Only once in my life did I encounter what athletes refer to as “the zone.” I don’t subscribe to any form of the supernatural, but that one-hour period of time will forever standout an inexplicable breach of my consciousness and actions.
- 20. On a 2006 music trip to Europe, Air France “misplaced” about 20K dollars worth of our irreplaceable guitars and gear for 24 hours.
- 21. I used to make light sabers using flashlights and green poster board. Luke was a pansy when he carried the blue one - I chose to emulate excellence.
- 22. I think I could enjoy being a truck driver because there would be plenty of time for music, audio books and introspection, but I couldn’t handle the time away from home.
- 23. I think humans are fundamentally moral, but after being battered by irrationalism for thousands of years, today one has to really develop and nurture a mindset of independent and critical thinking to hold any aspiration of escape from the clutches of modern philosophy.
- 24. In a streak that ended cold in 2007, I’ve consumed an estimated10,000 pop-tarts.
- 25. I think every individual is capable of more than they realize. With focus and mental discipline the human mind is capable of immense achievement.
