Ten things what I have done what you probably haven't.

[andrewducker]

1) Fired a Machine Gun
2) Thought I'd hallucinated two ambulance men kicking down the bathroom door, and gone back to sleep.
3) Been probed by The Borg...and survived! (slight cheat - green_amber was also there)
4) Come up first for a google of my name.
5) Use a network where the server ran off of 2 8" floppies. One had the OS, the other whatever software the clients might want to run. If someone wanted to run a different program then you had to make sure nobody wanted anything on that floppy and then switch it over.
6) Worked at Sandhurst Military College.
7) Had my appendix taken out.
8) Obtained a degree by persuading the School of Mathematics that Sociology wasn't really important.
9) Been in the audience of Crackerjack (kids TV show in the 70s).
10) Stood for Honororay President of Stirling University repeatedly until they abolished the post (I got enough votes each time to prevent anyone else from taking the post).

Comments

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

I've been doing 4 for years... come on, did you really think you were the only one with that uncommon a name? :P

[andrewducker]

Which is why I said "probably"

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you didn't have anything more unusual than that to use instead?

[andrewducker]

Not really. I managed a fair number of odd and unusual things, and I'm willing to bet that most of the people on my friend's list aren't the first person on their google list.

Ooh, I sense a poll coming on!

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

I am too :-)

[andrewducker]

Yes, but you have a freakily spelt name...

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Yeh, nothing to do with their being about 8 pp of refs to me on Google :-)p
(And actually that's the usual Continental spelling :-P

[andrewducker]

.....And at this point I'll admit defeat and assume that most of my friends are pretty darn geeky and have been on the web longer than the average person...

ps

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about Crackerjack!

Re: ps

[andrewducker]

Did you know about all the others?

Re: ps

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Not 6 and 10. I don't understand 5 :-)Right it's stopped hailing so I can go out!!!!

[temeres.livejournal.com]

When were you at Stirling? I was there 1981-84.

[andrewducker]

1990-1994.

I may be a tad younger than you :->

[seidl.livejournal.com]

I don't think #7 is all that rare really. I know I've had mine out.

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

I've done 1 and 5.

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

Ha! I come up first when I Google my name, too!

And I'm married to someone who'd fired a machine gun. So I've done it, once removed.

[draconid.livejournal.com]

Haven't quite fired a machine gun, but I have fired an automatic rifle. It scared me silly.