Seven Random Things - the jcyr version

Kavka tagged me with the Seven Random Things meme, so here you go in no particular order.

1. I once performed music in front of an estimated 1,000,000 people.  Yes I can play music.  Or used to anyway. I played saxophone (alto mostly) most of my school life.  At times in High School I would be in 3 or more music classes.  One year we were asked to perform in the Hollywood Christmas Parade.  All I remember is that it was VERY cold (unusually so), none of us could feel out fingers and playing music was near impossible.  The drill team came with us in their skimpy outfits and as cold as I was, I was feeling quite bad for them.  It was a fun trip all around even if we sounded horrible.

2. Even though I live in New Hampshire, I grew up in Pocatello, Idaho. My friends refuse to acknowledge that Idaho is a real state with real people haven't never met anyone from Idaho. When I tell them I am from ID, they claim I am making it up.  I love Idaho and visit when I can.  Pocatello is a great town, but I fear for the sprawl growth going on with bargain basement big box retailers and chain restaurants taking over.  ISU has an amazing music program.

3. I wrote the first FuseBox app.  Actually there was an example app that Steve Nelson did that I think came with FuseBox.   But my app was the first one outside of that.  It was a calendar app and really nothing too exciting.  That was many many many years ago.  Before there were any CF conferences, even the user run conferences.  Back when Allaire was still around. Occasionally I find sites still using it, which is alarming as it isn't secure and the code dates back to CF 3 I am pretty sure.

4. I once spilled nuclear waste at a nuclear facility.  True story.  Long ago INL was doing some promotion for the locals in Idaho to make us feel warm and safe about the Nuclear energy.  So they had an open house and my friend and his father brought me along to go check it out.  After the tour we stopped in this area where we can play with the armatron type robot arms.  We are protected by thick glass and whatnot and the arms are on other side.  They had lego's or something out so we could pick it up and move stuff around.  I found in the VERY back a bucket of white stuff (powdery stuff).  So I figured out a way to get the arm to reach WAY BACK THERE where we are not supposed to got the bucket and started swinging it around.  The employee who wasn't paying attention saw it finally and knocked me out of the way, spilling the stuff.  So technically... I didn't spill the stuff after all.  At any rate he freaked out, said something about cleaning it with que tips and we all ran for the door and sped away.  True story.

5. I once sang Karaoke with a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.  Enough said.

6. I created Warcraftbloggers which aggregates 300+ World of Warcraft blogs.

7. I am addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper.  I am certain it can't be good for me... yet I neeeed it. 

I tag:

Todd Sharp

Ray Camden

Chris Dahlen

Robert Squier

Shane Zehnder

Ben Nadel

Ken Dunnington (will make you blog damn it)

The Rules:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post - some random, some weird.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.