The been there, done that list

[melanoman]

Here's a list of trivia points about my history. It's part bragging, part confession, and all about waking up at 4am when I should really be asleep instead of internetting.


I have copiloted a COBRA attack helicopter numerous times.

I've written computer code that saved someone's life.

I've written computer code that helped to kill someone.

I worked at NASA.

I've driven faster than 175 miles per hour.

I had an office in Gasoline Alley (yes, including during the race).

I was personally responsible for the first use of the nickname "Shark Tank" for San Jose Arena on television (ESPN).

I spent most of a month with Johnny "Lone Star" Rutherford.

My lifetime air miles circle the globe a dozen times.

I've made more than double my annual salary in a single day's stock market change.

I've lost more than double my annual salary in a single day's stock market change.

I've called a $140k bet in poker with an 81% chance of winning, but lost.

I've made a $85k bet in poker with a 65% chance of winning, and won.

I made it to second place in the whole world in a chess-like board game competition (TRAX).

I was repeatedly scored past the one-in-a-million mark for IQ as a child.

I've seen people die.

I've seen people born.

I've hired and/or caused to be hired more than eighty people.

I've fired and/or laid off more than a hundred people.

I've taken a college final with a teddy bear.

I've done and experienced even more amazing things than those I listed.

I've slept too little tonight.