BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)

Subject: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Allan C.
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:56 PM

Since it is always possible that my current situation might come to an end someday, it seems wise for me to update my resume. I am doing that and am more or less using the "Qualifications Brief" format. One of the nice things about that format (and possibly others) is that it is recommended to include a heading called OTHER FACTS. This is where one can include good stuff that just doesn't show up in the usual list of employment and training, etc..

I got to thinking about you guys and that there are really cool, interesting or at least little known things about you that probably don't show up here in the threads.

Now, this is an opportunity for you to shine. This is where you can throw modesty to the winds and speak about your accomplishments, abilities and expertise. There are no limits here so don't be afraid to mention something that you would probably NOT include on your resume.

Okay, I'll start: Very few people have any idea that I am as physically strong as I am. (It's that Clark Kent thing I grew up with, I guess.)

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:59 PM

Most people don't have a clue at how good I am with numbers; once I've written a phone number etc. down or seen it in print, I never forget it...I have all these numbers stored somewhere on my *hardhead drive*.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: NightWing
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:07 PM

Everyone who knows me knows that I have a really weird sense of humor. I laugh at things that NOBODY else thinks are funny.

What nobody knows is why. I remember bits and pieces of songs, poetry, books, old television shows ... LOTS of them. Occasionally someone will say something that reminds me of one of these and I will say the punchline in my head and laugh at it. Everyone thinks that I am laughing at whatever was said, which may be completely non-funny.

Unsurprisingly, I get strange looks at these times. *G*

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Bert
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:16 PM

Actually NightWing, that ability to make connections is a function of intelligence.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: AggieBethie
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:17 PM

Ask my ex-boyfriends... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: CarolC
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:21 PM

I'm really bendable. I can touch my head with my foot, and I can raise my foot way above my head. I can fold practically in half. And I can do a pretty good split, too.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:22 PM

I should be given a PhD in using copy machines.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:25 PM

I belong to Mudcat. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Justa Picker
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:26 PM

I'm an excellent photographer (hobby) and my photos adorn our home. (My camera of choice is a black bodied 20 year old Nikon FE. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.) I also make a great steak and caesar salad; know how to program a VCR; and I cry during emotional scenes in movies or television dramas, but mask the tears by pretending to be scratching an itch.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:30 PM

I am a professional Pillow Fighting Champion.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:32 PM

I am really into canoeing and wilderness survival skills. I usually spend most of my summers guiding wilderness canoe trips in northern Ontario.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:36 PM

I'll bet everyone gets plenty of fibre on those trips, to, huh, Bonnie?**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:38 PM

That is so, if the canoe capsizes, people can float to shore on their stools. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: skarpi
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:41 PM

Halló all, As you all know I play in a band i also am a Rescue man 24 hour a day and I don´t get any money for that. I theach for the Icelandic Red Cross the first help that is CPR and all that. I love to out to the wilderness where is no : phone,radio tv,cars and no noise, just the wind and the birds. Of course I take my guitar with me. So thats about all I can remember of. All the best skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:45 PM

Ain't it kinda' hard to imagine anything about me that ISN'T well known around here? I mean really. just the other day I admitted to an indicretion that I had managed to forget for 35 years! I think Karen sent in copies of my catscans at one point.........

But I'll be interested in reading this though!!! Good thread Allan!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:49 PM

'Spaw - I think there is a day or two of your second grade year that we haven't covered yet. And there has been a big argument going on in the tavern whether in 5th grade you lost the spelling be with "prestidigitation" or "indigestion" - but that's about all.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:51 PM

Sigh...I thought this thread was gonna be real. Thread drift on the first post. Most be a record!

So the doctor says to the guy "Your X-rays show that your leg is broken. But don't worry, I can fix it with Photoshop."

(sorry, graphic designer joke...often the result of inhaling too much Sharpie fumes)

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:51 PM

Skarpi! Good to see you here!!! You've been missed!!

Touché, Peter! Sorry, Bon, I couldn't resist:-)

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:54 PM

I ran (er, finished in less than 3 hours) the Ky Derby Minimarathon (13.2 miles) in 1992.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:10 PM

Well Matt we all know you're a great whiner. Take a good look and you'll see that this thread has very little drift. Kat told something as did 'Picker, Allan, Night Wing, Bonnie, Carol, Skarpi, and now Mary. I wasn't drifting, I was completely truthful! YOUR POST drifts a bit you'll notice.

Cut the holier than thou crap fer chrissakes.

Catspaw

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:12 PM

I can program YOUR VCR without looking at the manual...and I have a VERY good sense of time and space...I can tell how long it's been since "X" hour...and I can process seconds in my head in timing short events....and I KNOW how long it takes to get from "here" to "there"...not just walking or driving time, but I mentally add in 'getting your coat on' time and 'slow traffic' time. I am almost always 'on time' or early to an event. As you can imagine, this drives most other people crazy..*grin* (I cannot, however remember dates and such well).
Likewise, I can look at something and know whether it will fit in "X" space..even in another room...(this can be learned...sort of eye calibration...but I find it easy)...all of this makes me VERY good at parking a car, and parallel parking in particular..I can put a 15 passenger Dodge van into a standard parking place.

I do this Internet/WWW thing quite easily, though I am TERRIBLE at actual programming. Understanding 'how' to search the WWW and what the relationships of the programs on a computer are to each other (the VISIBLE ones, not the hidden system stuff and Dlls) come easy....I can locate, install, keep track of and work through most of the things that keep my computer running...This, I believe, is mostly thru use of "Inductive Logic", where the 'rules' are derived from many examples, rather than deductive logic.

......and, I can make gravy.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Kim C
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:23 PM

There's not a whole lot secret about me. But maybe y'all don't know that I knit historical reproduction socks for reenactors. My waiting list is stretching into August.

I am learning to belly dance. (just for fun, mind you)

I like to do my nails funky. At Christmas they were green with red stripes and little rhinestones. Why should gals with long nails have all the fun?

My first crush was on Adam Cartwright of Bonanza. I still think Pernell Roberts is sexy even if he is old enough to be my granddad.

I like good cigars and good whiskey. I am a pretty good cook although I have trouble flipping fried eggs and getting the rice just right.

I secretly listen to Friday Nite 80s on the radio going home from work. On Fridays, of course....

KFC :)

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:27 PM

GREAT!!! I knew at one point or another someone would trigger something I haven't talked about!!! (Bill, you and I continue to have some strange similarities)

I'm excellent at something called "Time On Distance".....whether its from years of practice or a talent, I don't know, but I was trained to p;ay the game from an early age. What TOD is, is the ability to tell when two moving objects will meet. For example, you're driving along and a car is coming toward you....when will you pass?

This comes from practicing that was beat into me for sailboat racing. You need the ability to look at another boat and tell whether you are ahead or behind and where you will cross on a tack. Being able to keep a running update of this in your mind is a great advantage.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: dwditty
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:42 PM

KimC,
1. Bring the amount of water specified on the rice box - less 1/4 cup to a boil. Add pinch of salt and, if you like, a pat of butter.
2. Add rice and stir once with a fork.
3. Cover tightly with lid and turn down to simmer.
4. DO NOT take the cover off at any time during cooking.
5. Remove from heat after 20 minutes.
6. Let stand for 5 minutes.
7. Remove lid and fluff with a fork.

Serve with Bill D's gravy.

dw

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:43 PM

There's bloody LITTLE that Mudcatters DON'T know about my little bubble of existence, but......

I used to be a street characaturist in Provincetown.

I not only was expelled from High School but ALSO Art College (which really takes some doin')

With my friend Malcolm, I (and 50 other Canadian Pony Leaguers) had a tryout before a Chicago Cubs Scout, in Montreal. I was one of the first sent packing...no running speed at all.

I can't program a VCR, can't dance a step, have never played ANY card game...but can do a magic trick with a quarter that got me a lot of free beers when I played in bars.

I can imitate Donald Duck quite well.

My two philosophical heroes are Jim Bouton (former baseball player) and Quentin Crisp (former serious weirdo)

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:47 PM

Belly dancing reminds me that I do have one strange fact associated with me -- I once turned down an offer of marriage from an Arab princess.
I could have been Prince Ali-Ali-In-Come-Free (in more ways than one, she was incredibly rich). Her brother was the self-appointed broker. I am not actually sure it was marriage she was after.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:49 PM

This is fun...forget cooking rice on the stove, get a rice cooker/steamer and follow the directions...comes out perfect everytime.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Matt_R
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:49 PM

Geez Spaw, taking it a little too roughly, eh? Notice the exclamation mark? That means I was being funny! Sigh!!

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 06:18 PM

'spaw...the T.O.D thing is sort of related to the intuitive awareness of "vector forces"...knowing where to lift, press, pull etc. in order to make things 'happen'. I recently moved an upright piano up a step and thru a ***TIGHT*** doorway by myself, using leverage and sense of space and such... If I were a bit bigger generally, I would be a great furniture mover...*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 06:31 PM

I currently hold the MudCat World Record for a response to a request with a blue clickie--1 minute!! (Let's see how long I can hold it alone........)

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 06:40 PM

*grin*..once, maybe 5 years ago..WAY before Mudcat...I was in a chatroom, when someone typed "oh, SHIT, my kid just spilled grape juice on the rug! It's ruined!"

I opened a new browser, did a search...found a formula for dealing with grape juice stains...and posted the cut 'n pasted answer, and the source link..all in less than 2 minutes....made me sort of famous in them there days....

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 06:42 PM

Good on ya, Bill! My sister once spilled Grenadine siryp on the carpet, as far as I know, it is still there. We don't own the house anymore, but we could never get it out. Grape juice and yellow mustard--bad stains.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 06:53 PM

I can't do the splits but I can touch my toe to my nose (probably because of the length of my nose)

I have one skinny leg and one regular one because I tore the ligaments in my left leg 25 years ago while Highland Dancing

My daughter and I hiked The West Coast Trail to celebrate my 50th Birthday, including the section deemed impassable by the Parks Department (nobody bothered to tell us before hand that it was closed and couldn't be done)

I like to do biological illustrations of microscopic flora and fauna such as thisthis

I can tell you more than you would likely ever want to know about microscopic plant parasitic worms called nematodes.

I was kicked out of Junior High in Grade 9 for a time because I refused the PE teacher's demand to wash off my mascara.

I used to go cougar hunting with my Dad when I was small and shot house cats as part of the dogs and my training (now "that" was a hard one to resolve, because I also had a number of cats as pets, which I loved)

And I probably shouldn't say this either, but I love opera as well as folk music.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: harpgirl
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 06:54 PM

...when I was a professor of Social Welfare at the University of Arkansas in the late 70's, I met Bill at a party at an emeritus law professor's home. He got me a drink and we chatted about prison reform and ecology. I was dazzled by his good looks and figured he had to be married. I bet myself I could pick out his wife and tagged Hilary in her black head band talking with Dianne Blair on my first pass in the room! They heard me play at the Mountain View Inn when they came to Fayetteville to schmooze the Tyson's and there was never a hint of impropriety on Bill's part...

I swam exhibition in the 1960 Olympic trials when I was ten

I write opinions on licensing violations in my state for attorneys in state government...

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:01 PM

and I always forget to proofread

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:05 PM

I guess my only claim to fame is that I can take any tune and sing it immediately in tonic sol-fa, not only using "Doh" as the tonic note, but I can also use re, mi, fa, soh, or lah, and sing the appropriate accidentals.

Comes in handy for figuring out chords in any key.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:10 PM

oh, wow, Murray..I'll trade you for that ability...(I can't even figure out harmonies!)

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:13 PM

I would trade it like a shot to be able to do blue clickies and figure out Windows 95 ..........

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Allan C.
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:14 PM

I have only worn a watch once in the past three years (prior to that there was an eight year stretch without one) and yet I am usually quite punctual.

Whether on the internet, in a library or elsewhere, I am excellent at research.

Related to the research thing, I suppose, is that I am a finder of lost items. Just tell me what color or shape it is and I'll have it for you if you give me a general idea of where to search.

I am a fairly good cook. (Some people would use a more enthusiastic modifier.) I'd be better if I would read more cookbooks. Mostly, I cook by intuition. I know about spices and am not afraid to use 'em.

....Measure the rice. Rinse it with cold water at least twice. Add twice as much water as rice. Add salt. (Add a pinch or two of turmeric to make it a rich yellow, if you want.) Bring it all to a rapid boil stirring at times until large, fisheye bubbles form. Add a bit of butter or oil if you want. Give it a final stir. Cover tightly and turn off the burner. Never touch it again for fifteen to twenty minutes. (Long grain or Basmati rice takes longer than short grain.) Stir with fork and serve.

Like Bonnie, I enjoy canoeing and have a penchant for learning survival skills.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:15 PM

I can fix anything but a broken heart, and I can operate a power boat through the rocks and ledges of Penobscot Bay in a dungeon thick fog with no radar.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:19 PM

Use Minute Rice.......LOL! Liz the Squeak let slip on the animal noises thread that she can do Old MacDonald in Latin......now there is a talent!!

The real trouble with rice is that cooking it concerns how much moisture is in the dry rice,where is came from, the humidity,barometric pressure, your altitude, and no doubt phases of the moon. Short grain Japanese rice is supposed to be sticky. Basmati is not. Minute Rice is actually pretty terrible. If you are making Callas out of the cooked rice, then you want it to be sticky, also, so you can form it into balls.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:24 PM

I can read things upside down - a skill I learned as a sales rep sitting across from clients who had my competitors' quotes on their desks.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:35 PM

Thats a trick I learned from my lawyer!

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:36 PM

'spaw - you assuming my first post wasn't literal truth? I can provide witnesses! Seven years running.

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: bigchuck
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:41 PM

I am absolutely a world-class procrastinator and the master of last minute preparation. I have managed to apply the principal of "just wing it" to my entire life for the past 59 years.
Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:44 PM

re spilled wine on carpet. next time when shopping for a carpet ask for something that goes with a merlot.

as far as my talents, as well as playing irish fiddle I do painting and sculpture. I enjoy cooking and I have a pretty good singing voice although I havent been using it as much and I do have a capacity for remembering useless facts and one liners. cheers Petr

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:45 PM

One of these days you'll get round to doing something about your procrastination Sandy, I'm sure ......

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:46 PM

I got kicked out of the Procrastinators Club for paying my dues on time...

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:47 PM

I am President of the Posey Lake Akademy of Musicology and have been for the past 25 years. At present we have no student body but we do have a wealth of professors. Every year we have the Grand Opening of "Bob Miller's Amphitheater" to jump start summer ~ lots of fun, merriment and music. It's probably the best small amphitheater located in a wooded area in Northern Michigan. There is also the l952 16 passenger school bus that someday I plan to take on a "World Tour". When I get around to Photo Loft (er whatever) I'll post some pictures.

I do a great imitation of a whale when I'm floating on my back. So far only a few wounds from boat hooks and one accidental grounding (thank God they don't have harpoons on the Great Lakes).

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:55 PM

When I was younger I used to do a great imitation of a shark, doing the back stroke almost submerged aabd wearing black shorts .....

Murray