Fact Friday: Me

What this guy has done in his lifetime:

My wife (Thinking Blonde) took this from another blog she reads (Seriously), and it has appeared on several others.

It is Friday... I am on a break... I am bored... and have nothing else to post. So I will steal it too. :)

The things that are bold, I have done. The things that are italicized, are things I want to do. Stuff that's regular text, I haven't done nor do I feel compelled to do. Enjoy.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band <---Only if Rock Band counts :)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise <----Dinner cruise in San Diego, but not an actual cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language <---- Does C# count?
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris <----I've been under it though
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby <---Well not personally, but my wife did :) 95. Seen the Alamo in person 96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

That's me. Feel free to use any of this information against me in a court of law.

A Testament to my efficiency (or messiness)

WARNING: This post contains some disturbing material, I apologize in advance and hope you don't lose all respect for me.

I decided that while Keegan was taking a nap to day I would clean out my car. This is quite a task and usually only happens two to three times a year. If you know me, you know I like statistics, and even better if they are stupid stats.

So I present to you, Stupid Useless Statistics from me cleaning out my extremely messy car:

• Number of tools recovered: 1 (philips screwdriver)
• Number of writing utencils recovered: 4
• Number of water bottles found: 7
• Number of paystubs found: 3
• Amount of money recovered: 27¢
• Days between today and date of oldest newspaper found:135 (September 3, 2008)
• Capacity of cups/cans containing caffinated beverages (in fl oz): 616.8 (4.8 gallons)
• Number of cups/cans from above that were not Red Bull, Starbucks, or Cherry Coke Zero: 0
  

• Dollar amount of reciepts (excluding ATM reciepts): 675.44 (60 found)
• Percent of dollars from above reciepts used to purcase fast food: 46
• Smallest "total" amount on a reciept found: 0.54
• Number of days old of the oldest piece of trash (with a known date): 146 (Vegas bus ticket)
• Grossest thing found: An entire Jack in the Box taco (<--yeah, it grossed me out too)
• Number of owners of that car that will try to make less of a mess: 1

So as you can see from the photos what I did was actually quite impressive. I managed to fit all of that in my car in a very compact space. I dare you, no... challenge you to try and fit all of that in the front passenger seat of your car.

(For the record I keep the back seat clean, so I don't lose my son like that banned IKEA commercial)

Did you know...

...the dollar sign ($) had never been used on any US currency until 2007?

sorry for the wikipedia reference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign

Did you Know...

Pac-man was partially inspired by Namco desinger Tohru Iwatani seeing a pizza with a slice misssing?  Pac-man's name in North America was originally Puck-man, but was changed just before release (if you're wondering why, think P=F).  The Japanese name for pac-man is pakku-man and comes from the Japanese onomatopeic phrase paku-paku-taberu.  The paku-paku imitates the sound of the mouth opening and closing (twice, kinda like a smacking sound).

Sources: 

http://www.gamespot.com/features/vgs/universal/hist_pacman/p4_01.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man

Did you know...

That California's flag design was created by a mistake?

The orignial plan was to have a pear on the flag to represent the agricultural regions of the state, but through a misinterpretation a bear was painted instead.

source: http://www.snopes.com/lost/bearflag.asp

Did you know...?

Nintendo (of Mario and Zelda fame) will be 119 years old as of September 23rd of this year?

The company originally made playing cards back in 1889.

sources:
http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=34
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo

If you buy this, you'll be set for life...

"The 1980's: The introduction of the first small hard disk drives. The first 5.25-inch hard disk drives packed 5 to 10 MB of storage - the equivalent of 2,500 to 5,000 pages of double-spaced typed information - into a device the size of a small shoe box. At the time, a storage capacity of 10 MB was considered too large for a so-called "personal" computer. "

NOTE: The cost of this hard drive was $3,499! (for just the hard drive, not the computer itself)

To put this in prospective for the non-tech minded... at the time of this posting 14 out of the 19 desktop packages for sell on Bestbuy.com have in excess of 400 gigabytes. That's 40,000 times as much memory. 10 MB is equivalent to approximately 2.5 songs in mp3 format!



sources: http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/reach/435/storage.html
http://vectronicsappleworld.com/appleii/timeline.html