{"id":14,"date":"2006-12-22T14:26:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/my-part-in-the-five-things-blogwave\/"},"modified":"2013-05-02T18:28:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T01:28:34","slug":"my-part-in-the-five-things-blogwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/my-part-in-the-five-things-blogwave\/","title":{"rendered":"My part in the five things blogwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been tagged by Pam<\/a> and Gerry<\/a> in the “five little known things about me” blogwave<\/a>. Thanks to both of you, I think. I’m going to\u00c2\u00a0reply because\u00c2\u00a0I know there are those out there that are anxious to read what I write (hi mom!).<\/p>\n

1. I take tuba pictures. As a teenager I found a\u00c2\u00a0broken sousaphone (often referred to as a tuba) in a neighbor’s garbage. Since I was odd and\u00c2\u00a0enjoyed photography, it immediately became one of my favorite subjects.\u00c2\u00a0I have\u00c2\u00a0photographs of the tuba in trees,\u00c2\u00a0mountains,\u00c2\u00a0wrecked cars, vacant houses,\u00c2\u00a0and college bathrooms.\u00c2\u00a0I was once ejected with it from Temple Square in Salt Lake City. You probably have to have a sense of humor warped in roughly the same curvature as mine to think it’s as funny as I do, but here<\/a> are<\/a> a few<\/a> examples<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. In the late 1980’s I believe I was hugged by Craig Burton<\/a>. It was part of a Novell new employee ritual. I remember standing in a line that ended with Craig or Judith and\u00c2\u00a0thinking “please let me get Judith”. I\u00c2\u00a0 have no memory of what happened next. Perhaps I’ve blocked it from memory.<\/p>\n

3. As a high school student in a very small town in northern Utah, I was a member of a comedy troupe called The Lumberjacks. The school administration thought it was wholesome humor.\u00c2\u00a0If any of them had actually seen the namesake Monty Python skit<\/a>, it would have been scandolous.<\/p>\n

4. Much of my current career path is due to a father-son project. About 1998 I made a deal with my oldest son (then 12) that we would try this new Linux stuff together. He was to buy the OS (I think it was Redhat 5.2) and I was to buy the machine. He came through.\u00c2\u00a0I did not. So he built a machine from spare parts sitting around the house. I did help him install Linux. That Linux machine\u00c2\u00a0was reliable, stable, and we learned a lot. In fact, that machine was later used as the basis of\u00c2\u00a0a demo that showed Novell’s directory service integrated with DNS and providing\u00c2\u00a0rudimentary federation between directory instances across the Internet. The demo was shown, with great success, to Novell’s CEO (then Eric Schmidt). I left the company for a while, the project was cancelled, management changed, etc.,\u00c2\u00a0but, last I heard from my son, that machine is still running.<\/p>\n

5. I find it more productive\u00c2\u00a0to mix work and play. When I was a university student I worked as a childcare counselor for the United Way. One of the activities that I did with the children was to send them out into the fields to pick dandelion blossoms. They enjoyed it and it got them to run outside for a while.\u00c2\u00a0I took the blossoms home and made many\u00c2\u00a0gallons of\u00c2\u00a0rather good\u00c2\u00a0dandelion wine.<\/p>\n

So now I get to tag five:\u00c2\u00a0Pete<\/a>, Paul<\/a>, Mary<\/a>, Dave<\/a>, Lyndon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been tagged by Pam and Gerry in the “five little known things about me” blogwave. Thanks to both of you, I think. I’m going to\u00c2\u00a0reply because\u00c2\u00a0I know there are those out there that are anxious to read what I write (hi mom!). 1. I take tuba pictures. As a teenager I found a\u00c2\u00a0broken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}