Official Bragging Diary - Open Invitation

The fruits of that labor:

1. Beginner - 4 seconds
   
2. Intermediate - 34 seconds
   
3. Expert - 112 seconds

Won: 69, Lost: 16, %:81, Longest winning streak: 15 games, Longest losing streak: 4 games.

Inconsequential as those statistics are, I'm quite proud of them for what they are. Hopefully the stakes get higher than computer games in this thread, but I always feel like I should start these things small.

I'm already at the ready to dish out SAT scores, should that come come up... Oh, I'm already starting to feel better.

Well I've been on top of Mt. Dana in Yosemite, 13,057 feet high.  I've got a mountain named after me in Yosemite also (you too Kenshin) although haven't been up it yet.  Been to the lake/canyon/creek/siphon for LA though.  Sometime soon I'd like to try Mt. Whitney again, didn't get up it because of weather last time.

Pre-bragging here, I'm trying to get my AA/AS degree in two years, might not sound amazing, but for the people I go to school with that's pretty good.

Here's the link to the story of when we did #50:

http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041122/NEWS/411220347/1002

(Apologies for being too much of a techtard to make it into a link.)

Public reaction has always been pretty mixed, though. And not too many people find it quite as endearing as I do. Oh well, time to throw it out there to the dogs:

hehe

Needless to say, the opposing coaches/fans didn't appreciate getting shown up like that.  

Final score:  Bend - 63  Hermiston - 0

We were also a perfect 4/4 in recovered onside kicks that season.  I was the kicker !!

My final semester of college, I set up my schedule so that I had classes on Tuesday from 5:00-6:00 and 6:10-10:30, Wednesday from 2:00 to 4:45, and Thursday from 2:00 to 4:45. So, my weekend was, essentially, five days long.

In sixth grade CYO ball, I struck out ten of the twelve batters I faced in one game.

I was the first person to make the connection between Dan Patrick/Keith Olbermann and Pete & Pete.

I go to eleven.

Bet YOU can't...

I once drank a fifth of hennessy and managed to refrain from puking. although there was a significant blackout.

I was part of a three peat intramural basketball championship squad, twice beating our chico state red shirt squad in the process.

I was detained not once but twice by authorities in Munich, Germany at Oktoberfest and sent to a temporary holding facility on the oktoberfest grounds and somehow escaped.

Also, I can mimic David Bowie's voice and do it really well. My version of Space Oddity would've garnered me some digits if my "wife" hadn't been there.

• Once got over 200 km/hr on the Autobahn
  
• Climbed Longs Peak in CO (14,255'), an accomplishment that was soon cheapened when I drove my car to the top of Mt. Evans in CO (14,264'), later that same summer.
  
• Once won 127 straight on Free Cell.  Second best streak was 82.  I can't touch you guys on Minesweeper.  My best are like 7, 50 and 140.

o I turned down Harvard for graduate school

o My 2-year old can hit a pitched ball

(After Ryan Leaf was cut by the San Diego Chargers) the Chargers cut Leaf while he and his wife were honeymooning in Tahiti. "Reporters trying to locate Leaf for comments were advised to head to Tahiti's nude beaches and look for the biggest bust they'd ever seen."

 ``I always enjoy the Winter Olympics because it makes winners out of lugers.''

After the Indians' Jim Thome hit a home run into Toronto's Sightlines Restaurant, I wondered if anybody protested: ``Waiter, there's a fly ball in my soup!''

(When there was controversey on the subject)``People might be poking fun at the addition of trampoline to the Summer Games, but few realize the mental and emotional stress of the sport. Athletes must prepare for a lot of ups and downs.''

I also had some good ones about Marv Albert, but they were deemed in appropriate.

I can't lose at connect four - it's a broken game.

I've had three game-winning hits for my fraternity alumni charity softball tournament, and somehow struck out to end a game.

I asked some punk-looking kids to leave our reserved table at a bar in hollywood, and it turns out they were Good Charlotte. I still asked them to leave.

I've been in the Amazon River. It's scary.

A few summers ago I lost 60lbs in three months by cutting out most of the sugar, salt and carbs from my diet and running 2-5 miles each day.(I have since found half of them.)

I've been to a World Cup game where my mom's country won (go Colombia!) and Game 7 when the Giants were playing.

And best of all, this past spring I went to the restroom at a bar in LA where the only other person there was Jon Lovitz and he told me a joke.

I throw awesome parties with great food, much alcohol, and trash-talking card games (bid euchre).

I won first place in a fantasy baseball league last season (4th in other league), which was the first time I had ever played.

I have two great children.  My son is smart but extremely sensitive and my daughter is a girly-girl dress-up type yet very much a tomboy in-your-face type of girl.

I have a great wife.  Being shy and a bit of a loner, I thought that would be my lot in life, but she came into my life, also shy and a bit of a loner, and we're both very happy.

I can arch my eyebrow like Spock without moving my ears.  I can also wiggle my ears (but I'm not bragging about that :^).

In my much younger days, I had my picture taken with a Playboy playmate and Kascha (not at the same time, nor was anyone in a compromising position, just a classic greet and meet photo, at arm's length).

I programmed one of the original IMSAI, one of the first microcomputers ever; I was lucky my math teacher picked up one and I was one of the first members of my school's computer club.

I was #2 on my 9th grade chess club.

I refused to wear my calculator or slide rule on my belt in high school nor use a pocket protector.  (However, that didn't work, I looked nerdy anyhow :^).

I have programmed computers using toggle switches, teletype, computer punch cards, and dumb terminals.

I had a future Nobel Prize Economist as a teacher once (but dropped the class because it was over my head...).  I also shook his hand when I graduated, it was literally like holding a fish in your hand and shaking it, it was the weirdest thing.

I feel a little like Steven Wright, right now.  Either that or I'm on Dave Letterman's stupid human tricks segment.

(some people leave out the "the" part, though.)

I once hit a clay pigeon with a .22 pistol (although it took me many many tries).

I can play all of the garth brooks double live album on the guitar.