I've been tagged... Five things you don't know about me.
So C.K. tagged me into the "List five things people don't know about you and then get five more people to do the same" pyramid scheme meme. (For those of you keeping track, the line back to the top of the pyramid is me » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver.) So here they are - five things you (probably) don't know about me, Chris Finke:
1. I used to write movie, music, and restaurant reviews for the Janesville Gazette's JNL section; I probably did 40 to 50 of them over a four year period. I also won their Christmas creative-writing contest three years in a row.
2. I've played a tuba. While wearing a Santa suit. And beard. In front of 1,600 high school students. While getting booed. Loudly.
3. When I played third-base in Little League, I completed an unassisted triple play. Needless to say, I lucked into it: I caught a soft line drive while standing on third with the bases loaded, and the runner at second just screwed up and kept running.
4. I can gleek. This both disgusts my wife and makes her jealous that she can't do it too.
5. I have surprisingly persistent career goals: in second grade, one of our homework assignments was to write down what we wanted to be when we grow up; I put "computer programmer or music teacher." I went on to start college as a music education major before switching to computer science. (It was not until after I was well into my CS degree that I found the paper and was amazed by my second-grade self.)
That's it for me, but as for my five people: tag-you're-it, Alex, Muhammad, Derek, Fabienne ;-), and just for the heck of it, Ken Jennings.
Christopher Finke is a software engineer at Mahalo. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. 
December 19th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
[...] Chris Finke tagged me, and I wont rest until I think of a way to make him regret it… [...]
December 19th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
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December 19th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
[...] How did this get to me? Here is the path Derek van Vliet » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
December 19th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
[...] So far, the steps of this demonic dance of blog-shame go like this: me » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. [...]
December 20th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
[...] Chris Finke >> [...]
December 20th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
[...] So far, the steps of this demonic dance of blog-shame go like this: » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver » Derek Van Vilet » digidave and Stacy both tagged me [...]
December 21st, 2006 at 1:13 am
[...] Here’s the history of it so far — Me » Alex Rudloff » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. This is this really neat thing bloggers have been doing to raise their search engine rank recently. It is really neat because it gives you some insight into things one might not normally read on that person’s blog… oh, that’s a bit redundant, eh? Here goes, and I am stealing some of my ideas for things you don’t know from Alex who tagged me. [...]
December 22nd, 2006 at 8:40 am
[...] The chain looks like this: Me » Zeus » Gavin Hall » Alex Rudloff » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. I tag Keith to continue on! [...]
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:17 pm
[...] The game was started by Jeff Pulver. He started by tagging the video blogger, Steve Garfield. Here’s the entire chain: Jeff Pulver > Steve Garfield > Steve Woolf > Rick Rey > Michael Ambs > Amanda Congdon > Jason Calacanis > C.K. Sample, III > Chris > Derek Van Vilet > David Cohn > Krzysztof Pajak > Smaran Dayal > Me [...]
December 23rd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
[...] Apparently this game of blog tag was started by Jeff Pulver. He started by tagging the video blogger, Steve Garfield. From there, it went like this: Jeff Pulver > Steve Garfield > Steve Woolf > Rick Rey > Michael Ambs > Amanda Congdon > Jason Calacanis > C.K. Sample, III > Chris > Derek Van Vilet > David Cohn > Krzysztof Pajak > Smaran Dayal > Me. [...]
May 17th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
[...] think this list sums me up pretty well. I’m not sadistic enough to try to turn this into a pyramid meme, but does anyone else want to reveal the A-Z of their browser [...]
June 30th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I also can gleek, although I've never thought of it as a skill.