5 things you don't know about me (but now you will)

Alrighty, so Ted Rheingold from SpideySenses and the Top Dog "tagged" me for the 5 things buzz. Thanks Ted! So let's see, here we go....

1. My first computer was an Atari 400. My sister and I flew down to Miami to visit my father and he bought me the 400 and her a fake cabbage patch kid. We got home to NYC and hooked up the 400 and my mother came into the living room saying, "that is a piece of crap it has to go back" - 2 days later it was gone. I cried. I will never know if she thought it was crap or just that he bought it for me. What's worse? The fake cabbage patch kid lost its head 3 days later. My sister cried.

2. I coded the Wimbledon and French Open web sites for IBM in 1997. FOUR-THOUSAND web pages all by hand. And, Kip, the manager demanded that all HTML tags be coded in upper-case. I slept many a night on the IBM couch in Armonk. Though the overtime money was freaking nice.

3. I love transit. Bus, train, subway. I have the Manhattan bus map and NYC subway map memorized. My dream job would be to travel the world on transit filming a video blog where I talk about the system, offer suggestions to make the systems better and of course meet the people who work and who ride the systems. (any sponsors out there??)

4. I am currently learning German to communicate mit mein freunde.

5. I collect some odd things....

• Breakfast menus from hotel rooms (so far the most expensive is from London at $57.00)
• Key cards from hotel rooms (the coolest so far is the one from The Muse in NYC)
• Hard Rock glasses - total of 13 at this moment
• Pictures of signs - I love to take pictures of signs - check out a sample set I just threw up on Flickr. Here are a few samples samples:

And since I need to continue the stream, here are 5 I "goosed":

• Patricia Handschiegel
• Ryan Dewsbury
• Andreas Schneider
• Michael Arrington
• James Thomas