Truth/lies

[fleetfootmike]

Ten truths and five lies:

I can't count, so this is a lie, making this 11 truths and 5 lies!

1: I have a Cambridge quarter-blue.

I surely do - representing Cambridge University vs Oxford University at archery. The morning after the society dinner, at which the wine and port flowed like water: I can attest that hangovers focus the mind wonderfully.

2: My wife has been on page 3 of the Sun

Page 5, actually (as Anne Rundle, her maiden name). And page 3 of the Express and the Mirror on the same day, being the day after the men's semi-finals at Wimbledon in 1985. The Centre Court flooded, and the press persuaded her to go for a swim. In a spooky coincidence, the current person who trains the ball-boys and -girls for the Championship is .... Anne Rundle.

3: I've been a paper multi-millionaire.

At the point of CricInfo's final round of investment before the dot com crash, I owned 2.6% of a $100M company.

4: I've accompanied Anne McCaffrey on guitar in public.

Sure have. At a Science Fiction Convention on Jersey. Lovely lady, has dreadful tinnutus but a super voice.

5: I've visited every Test cricket ground in England

You'd think so, wouldn't you. But no - only four of the current seven - still to visit Headingley, Edgbaston and Chester le Street.

6: I have double-jointed thumbs.

Sure do. Inherited from my grandma.

7: I'm credited in two O'Reilly textbooks

Yup. "CVS: the Definitive Guide" by shaynemadhu, and Eric Raymond's "Homesteading the Noosphere".

8: I'm credited as a contributor to a piece of software you probably use every day.

Yup. There's some donated code in the source to Perlbal of mine. Perlbal just happens to be LiveJournal's load balancer software.

9: I've played guitar on national TV.

On a Channel 4 programme about the 1995 World SF convention in Glasgow.

10: I'm addicted to Marmite.

Can't stand the stuff.

11: The fastest computer in this house is a Mac.

Second fastest. The fastest is the new FilkNet server.

12: I have over two days worth of Fleetwood Mac concert bootlegs on iTunes.

Sure do.

13: My parents would have named me Veronica Ann if I had been a girl.

From my two grandmothers.

14: I read at over 800 wpm.

Apparently so, according to at least one online test.

15: My parents usually call me 'Miggle'.

By a circuitous route from "Michael" to "Miguel" to "Mig-we-ell" to "Mig-me-ell" to "Miggle". Of such things are nicknames made.

Comments

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

My given name is Anne. I prefer Annie. Why, then, do my parents insist (in public, even) on calling me Fanny Fernackapan? Argh!!!!