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Ten things I've done meme
Feb. 19th, 2005 12:29 pmTen unusual things I’ve done. You all have much more interesting lives than I do, but this is my effort:
1) I’ve been inside the containment building of an operating 950 MWe nuclear power plant.
2) I toured a large coal-fired power plant---at age 13.
3) I got a rather extensive tour of Fermilab conducted by Drasko Jovanovic.
4) I’ve run up the stairs, more than once, from the basement to the fourth floor, while holding my breath.
5) I’ve lifted a bottle containing several hundred milliliters of mercury to feel, first hand, that that stuff is really dense.
6) I’ve lifted a uranium tube to experience its density, but because it was a hollow tube it didn’t seem very impressive.
7) I’ve had Dave Clement say to me “that’s a sick song,” referring to something I had written.
8) I’ve played Bach at a filk.
9) I broke the (expensive!) sapphire piston on an HPLC pump while disassembling it with both a manufacturer’s service engineer and my boss standing behind me giving me “helpful” advice on the disassembly. The engineer then became more helpful and my boss told the story of what happened the first time she worked on an HPLC pump (she broke the piston).
10) I used version 0.95a of the Linux kernel. I didn’t hack on it---I’m not a programmer---I actually ran useful software under it. That would have been early 1992. Version 1.0 didn’t come out until March of 1994. I’m sure I wasn’t the very first plan ol’ user, but there couldn’t have been very many of us back then.
1) I’ve been inside the containment building of an operating 950 MWe nuclear power plant.
2) I toured a large coal-fired power plant---at age 13.
3) I got a rather extensive tour of Fermilab conducted by Drasko Jovanovic.
4) I’ve run up the stairs, more than once, from the basement to the fourth floor, while holding my breath.
5) I’ve lifted a bottle containing several hundred milliliters of mercury to feel, first hand, that that stuff is really dense.
6) I’ve lifted a uranium tube to experience its density, but because it was a hollow tube it didn’t seem very impressive.
7) I’ve had Dave Clement say to me “that’s a sick song,” referring to something I had written.
8) I’ve played Bach at a filk.
9) I broke the (expensive!) sapphire piston on an HPLC pump while disassembling it with both a manufacturer’s service engineer and my boss standing behind me giving me “helpful” advice on the disassembly. The engineer then became more helpful and my boss told the story of what happened the first time she worked on an HPLC pump (she broke the piston).
10) I used version 0.95a of the Linux kernel. I didn’t hack on it---I’m not a programmer---I actually ran useful software under it. That would have been early 1992. Version 1.0 didn’t come out until March of 1994. I’m sure I wasn’t the very first plan ol’ user, but there couldn’t have been very many of us back then.
