01.26.07

Tagged!

Posted in General Ramblings at 8:43 pm by kkj

I went running this morning, feeling rather sporty considering that a) it is winter and b) it is therefore cold outside. My favorite track runs alongside a local lake in a wildlife preserve: it is quite close, and there are no cars around to smite the air. When I got there I turned left only to find the trail flooded and completely impassable a few hundred meters down. Turning around, I ran well about a kilometer in the other direction when again I was stopped by flooding. Close to this point there’s an expressway overpass. I got up there, ran along the road for a little while, crossed over and got onto the path again where it runs on the other side of the lake … only to find it blocked by flooding some hundred meters down.

Darn. Determined not to let this stop my exercise, I left the road, climbed a little hill, and started making my way thru an overgrown terrain, which was completely suitable as a backdrop for the place where maniacs come to dump their victims in dark crime series. Luckily I didn’t stumble across any lost limbs poking out of the ground, but somewhat scratched and dirty I finally found myself on the other side of the flooded path and started running again. Guess what. About a kilometer down, where the trail passes a road there was another flooding and nowhere to go, but follow the road home.

And what did I find when I finally got back? My friend Tommy had blog-tagged me daring me to expose 5 not-so-well-known facts about myself. What a tough morning.

If you’re still with me at this point in the post, you asked for it. Here goes:

1. When I was a kid, I took piano lessons and even played in a scout-band once. Every year around x-mas I exercise that old instrument from my childhood, and according to my wife with increasingly disastrous results.
2. I fence and recently switched from foil to saber. My name is pronounced and almost spelled like the Danish word for epee, leading to lots of rather awkward and generally bad jokes when the subject is brought up.
3. After high school I spent a year with a couple of friends producing what must have been the most boring and least interesting computer game in history, “Shepherd”, about a shepherd who lived in the Faroe Islands herding sheep. Yawn. Don’t ask why we chose that topic, but thank the higher powers it was never finished.
4. For a short while I was into movies, producing and costarring in a few motion pictures. Most notably of these is “Fisk”, which is remembered for being the only film in history where the director’s cut version is shorter than the original. There’s an online teaser available at the official Fisk The Movie site at your own peril. Remember to turn on sound.
5. When I was young and wild I had a goatee and long hair. If you’re good you can spot the old me in the Fisk teaser.

As it is supposedly bad luck to not send a chain letter to other people, I tag the following two bloggers (sorry ladies):

• Julie Thorendal whose blog on the musical scene in Copenhagen I helped setup
• Signe Wagner who had a very lively blog on Enterprise Architecture until she graduated and became a business woman. Maybe this challenge will rekindle her writing?

Technically speaking I should have tagged 5 people to avoid bad luck, but alas the other bloggers I know have already been tagged. This is not surprising if you consider for a moment the implications of 1 person tagging 5 people who in turn tag 5 people and so on. It turns out that 5^14 equals 6.103.515.625 … so after 15 iterations (including the source) the entire planet is in the game, and following the tagging path backwards thru blogs across the world I seem to be in the 12th row along with some 50.000.000 other people … Go figure.

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