Another Chain Post

OK, Reassembler has tagged me again for one of those web-tag-blog-post-thingies. So here it is: "Eight Random Facts About Yourself"

Rules:

1. Post these rules before you give your facts.
2. List 8 random facts about yourself.
3. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them.
4. Leave a comment on their blog to let them know they’ve been tagged.

Facts:

I was in a Strat-O-Matic Baseball league for twenty years.

Strat-O-Matic is like Dungeons & Dragons for Baseball. It's been around for generations; long before Fantasy Baseball. The name of my team was "The Manila Folders." You can check the archives of the league's website, The SOMBILLA.

I have only lived in the state of Massachusetts.

The first computer I ever wrote a program for was a PDP-8.

I never graduated from college.

I have flown (and landed!) an airplane.

Though I never got around to soloing, I made dozens of touch-and-gos without instructor interference.


I have a Gigabit wired network in my house with four computers, and three TiVos on it.

I have three kids. They were all born on October 3rd. They are not triplets.

There is one set of twins, then their brother was born on their fourth birthday. The twins were six weeks early, and the third was two weeks late, so it's just random.

I am a co-author on a paper entitled "Optical Spectroscopy of Type Ia Supernovae."

I spent a night at the Whipple Observatory in Arizona, with a real astronomer, taking multi-wavelength images of white blobs. They were actually stars that had expoded in other galaxies. My name is in the image header files, hence I'm in the paper.



I'm not going to follow the rules and tag other people by name. If you read this, consider yourself tagged.

-Matt