{"id":2627,"date":"2008-12-29T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2008-12-29T10:40:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:40:45","slug":"seven-more-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2008\/12\/29\/seven-more-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven (More) Things You May or May Not Have Wanted to Know About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my former coworker – that many of you now know as daveraffaele<\/a> on Twitter – asked me to play<\/a> the latest meme game, it’s not as if I had much choice. I mean, really: how could I deny the ‘fro<\/a>? <\/p>\n

Sure, we’ve played this kind of game before<\/a>, you and I, but who’s not interested in more useless SOG trivia? <\/p>\n

Correct: most of you. <\/p>\n

But for those of you sticking around anyway, here\u2019s how it works:<\/p>\n

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  1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.<\/li>\n
  2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.<\/li>\n
  3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.<\/li>\n
  4. Let them know they\u2019ve been tagged.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Ok. Simple enough. So, 7 things I think you may or may not want to know about me, in no particular order, are:<\/p>\n

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    1. While I sadly can’t grow Dave’s afro, my hair is unique both in that it has been described as “a color not found in nature” and that it is one massive cowlick<\/a>. So while the Jules look<\/a> is beyond me, the Christopher Walken look<\/a> is not.<\/li>\n

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    2. While I was born and raised as a Red Sox fan, I was more or less indifferent to baseball growing up. So yes, there’s hope for you too.<\/li>\n

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    3. I wanted to be a marine biologist as a kid – watching tons of Jacques Cousteau specials and even going to camp for it (don’t start) – until I learned that marine biology isn’t just diving and seeing sharks. Once I heard that much of the work consists of tedious population counting, chemistry analyses of bottom sediments, etc and that dissection was a fundamental part of the curriculum, I was out like scout.<\/li>\n

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    4. I can’t write in cursive any more. My handwriting was so poor that I was asked to go back to printing sometime in elementary school, and as a result, script is now beyond me. My signature is essentially nothing more than a practiced scrawl.<\/li>\n

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    5. While I’ve dislocated fingers, cracked a rib, have bone chips in one elbow, “fluid and particulate matter” in one shoulder, crushed at least four of my toes and am desperately seeking elective Tommy John surgery<\/a>, I’ve never broken a major bone or torn a major tendon or ligament. Despite being placed in situations where I probably should have. And yes, I will now knock on wood.<\/li>\n

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    6. My crowning literary achievement – still – was a story I wrote called “Getting on to Noon.” While it was published at one point in a now defunct online journal, it was some not uncomplimentary comments from that Jim Shepard<\/a> – my professor at the time – that I remember most fondly. Still have them, actually, somewhere.<\/li>\n

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    7. Most of you know that I wear a hat. A lot. What you probably don’t know is that I’ve worn a hat close to every day of my life since I attended my first game at Fenway and came home with a corduroy Sox hat that was lost years later in an unfortunate incident that you should ask me about over beers. All of the Sox hats I wear these days are purchased only at the source: Fenway Park.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Last, my choices for victims. Sorry folks (I’m not really sorry).<\/p>\n

      Bree Nedward<\/b> (blog<\/a> | twitter<\/a>): Because she’ll have – easily – the best Seven Things You May or May Not Want to Know list. Scariest too, probably. <\/p>\n

      Chris Blizzard<\/b> (blog<\/a> | twitter<\/a>): Because he’s got a diverse background and diverse interests. <\/p>\n

      Corey Gilmore<\/b> (blog<\/a> | twitter<\/a>): If you’ve listened to LoDo Conversations – and speaking of, what’s up with the hiatus? – you’ll understand this selection. If you haven’t, ask him about his plumbing problems or experience with human hair mustaches. <\/p>\n

      Jeff Waugh<\/b> (blog<\/a> | twitter<\/a>): Everyone’s favorite freedom loving speaker, evangelist and consultant. Also, he’s Australian and therefore from the future, so who knows what would be on his list. <\/p>\n

      Rafe Colburn<\/b> (blog<\/a> | twitter<\/a>): Seems like he knows more about everything than I do about my chosen fields of expertise. With the possible exceptions of baseball and beer pong. <\/p>\n

      Sara Dornsife<\/b> (blog<\/a> | twitter<\/a>): Not just because she’s undoubtedly looking for inspiration for her next blog entry, but because said blog entry will be interesting with a high probability of being hilarious. <\/p>\n

      Shelly Milam<\/b> (blog<\/a> | twitter<\/a>): Makes the list in part because of her excellent taste in music, but more because there must be stories to tell about being the Linux mascot. Funny stories. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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