{"id":1566,"date":"2007-07-07T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T09:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/07\/eight-things\/"},"modified":"2007-07-07T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T09:20:03","slug":"eight-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/07\/eight-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The slow-motion &#8220;meme&#8221; of the moment is this &#8220;eight things about yourself&#8221; list. <a href=\"http:\/\/doctorpion.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/doubly-tagged.html\">Doctor Pion tagged me a while back<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve been bad about actually responding, because I&#8217;m lazy. This seems like a good weekend topic, though, so here are some random facts about me (I&#8217;ll try not to repeat any from previous versions of this sort of thing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have horrible eyesight, and wear Coke-bottle glasses when I&#8217;m not wearing contact lenses (as I am in the picture at left). Once, in college, a guy I played rugby with looked through my glasses and exclaimed &#8220;What, did your parents lose a bet with God?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I never played organized American football, at any level. This surprises a lot of people, because I&#8217;m a big guy, and I&#8217;m an American, but I played soccer in high school, and rugby in college. The only football I played was of the pick-up variety, usually in the snow.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m OK at a lot of sports, but I&#8217;m pretty terrible at any game that requires you to hit a ball with a stick. Golf, pool, tennis, etc. I&#8217;m absolutely hopeless at baseball and variants thereof.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve heard of the &#8220;freshman 15?&#8221; My first year in college, I went from 190 lbs to about 240 lbs&#8211; a &#8220;freshman fifty,&#8221; if you will. There are pictures of me in high school at my parents&#8217; house, and Kate starts giggling every time she sees them.<\/li>\n<li>In high school, I was a big fan of Pink Floyd (post Syd Barrett) and mid-period Genesis (roughly from the departure of Peter Gabriel through the puzzle pieces album). I don&#8217;t listen to that stuff much any more, but I still like a lot of those songs. I have virtually no indie cred.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a terrible dancer, awkward and ungainly and self-conscious, unless I&#8217;ve had a lot to drink, in which case I&#8217;m awkward and ungainly and drunk enough not to care. I think this is partly genetic, from my father&#8217;s side of the family.<\/li>\n<li>I have never worked a service industry job, unless you count occasional school fundraisers. When I was in high school, I occasionally did odd jobs&#8211; I spent a couple of weeks helping fix up some slum apartments owned by my mother&#8217;s boss, and helped some friends bring hay in&#8211; but all the regular jobs (with a set salary and taxes withheld)  I&#8217;ve had have been in academic physics.<\/li>\n<li>I am thoroughly baffled by the fact that Bjork has a career in music. Honestly, I can&#8217;t for the life of me see the appeal of any of her songs. (One of her songs was just on the cable music channel, and I&#8217;m desperate for material, here).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There, that&#8217;s eight things. I&#8217;m supposed to pass this on to eight other people at this point, but I&#8217;m not a big fan of that sort of thing. So let&#8217;s just say that if you&#8217;re one of the eight people reading this blog on a Saturday morning, consider yourself tagged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slow-motion &#8220;meme&#8221; of the moment is this &#8220;eight things about yourself&#8221; list. Doctor Pion tagged me a while back, but I&#8217;ve been bad about actually responding, because I&#8217;m lazy. This seems like a good weekend topic, though, so here are some random facts about me (I&#8217;ll try not to repeat any from previous versions&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/07\/eight-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eight Things<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}