Life, sewing, and theoretical physics ([info]enigmania) wrote,
@ 2008-06-26 22:51:00
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Three things meme
Well I handed my draft to the committee, I gave my departmental colloquium, and now just revisions and edits and studying and a few research tasks until my defense in a week and a bit.

So here is that interesting three unique things meme!

Post 3 things you’ve done in your lifetime that you don’t think anybody else on your friends list has done.
See if anybody else responds with “I’ve done that.” If they have, you need to add another! (2.b., 2.c., etc…)


1) Taught English to schoolkids (and teachers) in Thailand and Laos.

2) Written BASIC code on a Tandy laptop.
2 b) Let's try... Eaten live wiggling larvae. Possibly silkworm.
2 c) Had open chest surgery?

3) Spent 10 days without speaking to the people around me. (Meditation retreat).

(I wanted to put "sewn my own wedding dress" but I know at least one person on my friendslist has also).



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[info]werz_waldeau
2008-06-27 04:26 am UTC (link)
I wrote BASIC on punch cards. Yes, I really am that old.

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[info]earle_rich
2008-06-27 11:01 am UTC (link)
#2, done that. First computer was a Radio Shack Model 1 with 16K of memory. Heaven was upgrading to 64K. The Model 100 portable came later. That was a great machine. Instant on, external floppy drive for storage (100K capacity) and 4 AA cells for 24 hours run time. For useful work, I don't think we've progressed all that much.

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[info]enigmania
2008-06-27 03:19 pm UTC (link)
My first computer of my own was a Tandy... 1100 FD maybe? I bought it with prize money from a youth science fiction writing competition, and wrote a program on it that would generate random potentially habitable planet systems and inform you of their various qualities. It was a nice little machine.

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Been there, ate that
[info]crowemojo
2008-06-27 03:44 pm UTC (link)
I hadn't written BASIC code, but I have eaten a live wiggling larvae.

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Re: Been there, ate that
[info]enigmania
2008-06-27 03:56 pm UTC (link)
Darnit! :)

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