It has been a while since I posted. Just too busy! I hope that I will have time to get some posting done during the holidays.
I was forced to post because I was “blog tagged”. The idea is if you get tagged you have to write 5 things that others don’t know about you then tag 5 others. I was tagged by Jeremy Palmer, who was tagged by Scott Jangro, who was tagged by Shawn Collins. I don’t know where it started. But I supose this will get some press and will be interesting to be a part of.
5 Things you don’t know about me.
1) I once ate a spoonful of 100s of pinhead sized peanut beetles. Yes they where live tiny beetles that someone had “grown” as a medicine. Yes they where all alive and it took a full glass of water to keep them from coming back up. This was on my LDS mission in Brazil.
2) I have been researching salt-water reef aquariums for over a year and just started my first tank. I now have 8 small crabs and 6 turbo snails. My first fish will come this week.
3) I once built an android pheasant. Using servos, servo controllers and a programmable CPU I build the body that could turn its head and rock forward and backward. My brother who is a taxidermist stuffed it to make it look real. It was awesome! I will build a real personal robot some day.
4) I have an alter ego or “pen name” of Adam Speed. I built several simple financial websites under this name and even got quoted in a newspaper article (they should check their sources). Last week I received a check with the name of Adam Speed. I don’t know what I will do with it.
5) I was once stranded with my Dad and brother in the desert for 2 days on a hunting trip. We got 2 flat tires within a mile of each other and waited in the middle of the road until someone came for us. In all that time not a single car passed or even came within CB range. Shows you how remote the west desert in Utah can be.
I tag Paul Allen, Bart Gibby, Ryan Williams, Fransico Pascual, and David Lifferth
Love that Adam Speed story! I have a friend in Virginia who uses a similar pen name (Floyd Turbo) for online postings, but he’s not been quoted yet (that I know of). Just stumbled across your blog while searching for something else, but glad I did. Enjoy the Holidays. And if you don’t mind a shameless plug, check out my site about census records . . . I still love genealogy!
DanL
Brad, crazy dude! You have a check for your Pen Name. That is weird, you could try making a company called “Adam Speed” and then cash the check. Unless of course the amount of the check is not enough to pay for the company and the time it would take. Thanks for the Blog tagged email… I have not blogged in over a month, I am feeling a little depressed about it. I have several unpublished and unfinished posts but, you know too busy.
Cheers my friend, I will always remember your professional kindess at Provo Labs.
-Bart
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