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Blame this on Stu, but like Steve I’m only going to play half of the game. I don’t think I’m reproducing anything from my list of 100 things from a while back.

1. I used to work in a small office where we all decided that we wanted to extend our vocabulary so we had a phrase of the week. We had to use this phrase in real conversations and the phrase had to use real (if obscure) words. The one that we all remember is – “altitudinal feculence“. I’ll let you all work out what it means.
2. I was once in the Guinness Book of world records for creating (along with a few thousand others) the worlds largest poster.
3. While painting the poster I met The Who – I had no idea who The Who were.
4. I sliced the end off one of my index fingers at college. I was inspecting a jet engine when my finger got a little too close. It was only a little bit and it stuck back on, but you can still see the scar.
5. My thesis at college was on Expert Systems and their use in Engineering. I had to book time on a “big” UNIX box and use some experimental software that one of the professors had written. It took me 12 months to create anything of any real use, I think I could do it all in about 10 minutes today using free software and a PC. Thinking about it, I could probably do it all on my phone, there’s more processing power and more memory that I had available in the “big” UNIX box I was using.