Ten things meme
Feb. 24th, 2005 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearThis is kinda by request, which is rare for a meme.
Ten things blah blah know the drill:
1: I built the house I am living in.
2: I can go from working on the tiniest mechanisms (watches, meter movements, etc) to the biggest and heaviest (industrial engines, processes, whatever) and back again.
3: I used to be able to lift the ends of small cars.
4: I have perfect pitch.
5: I have been electrocuted countless times to varying degrees. I was also hit by lightning but I found that was something I have in common with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
devcubber.
6: I was born in an Army hospital, both mom and dad were Army.
7: I built several 'boomboxes' which rivaled both the loudness and sound quality of commonly available portable devices at the time. The time was the early-mid 70s (I should have applied for patents!). Yes, I was a kid at the time.
8: I saw the first concert of the reunited legendary prog-rock group Happy The Man at the State Theater in VA, minus the original keyboardist. 8a: Said keyboardist was my partner at the time.
9: I disassembled and reassembled and engine blindfolded. It ran afterwards.
10: I once put out a rather large underhood fire in an old Ford by simply blowing it out. The resulting work to restore the old hooptie was not worth the headache. I should have let it burn.
Ten things blah blah know the drill:
1: I built the house I am living in.
2: I can go from working on the tiniest mechanisms (watches, meter movements, etc) to the biggest and heaviest (industrial engines, processes, whatever) and back again.
3: I used to be able to lift the ends of small cars.
4: I have perfect pitch.
5: I have been electrocuted countless times to varying degrees. I was also hit by lightning but I found that was something I have in common with
devcubber.6: I was born in an Army hospital, both mom and dad were Army.
7: I built several 'boomboxes' which rivaled both the loudness and sound quality of commonly available portable devices at the time. The time was the early-mid 70s (I should have applied for patents!). Yes, I was a kid at the time.
8: I saw the first concert of the reunited legendary prog-rock group Happy The Man at the State Theater in VA, minus the original keyboardist. 8a: Said keyboardist was my partner at the time.
9: I disassembled and reassembled and engine blindfolded. It ran afterwards.
10: I once put out a rather large underhood fire in an old Ford by simply blowing it out. The resulting work to restore the old hooptie was not worth the headache. I should have let it burn.
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Date: 2005-02-25 04:29 am (UTC)I'm in awe of mechanical dexterity -- I'm fascintated by engineering, and constantly used to take all my toys apart as a kid, but didn't have the skills for making it all work when it went back together. :)
To #3 -- come sit by me. :)
#3 and #4
Date: 2005-02-25 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-25 05:46 am (UTC)Thanks for sharing!
JOhn.
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Date: 2005-02-25 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-25 10:42 am (UTC)...and Im told I have reasonably decent catch. Marry me.
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Date: 2005-02-25 05:15 pm (UTC)sorry couldn't resist a cheap one....
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Date: 2005-02-25 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-26 09:08 am (UTC)I used to do #3, too!