I’m it — 8 things you didn’t know about me
Last week I got tagged by Joe Pulizzi from Junta42 to reveal “8 things you didn’t know about me.” So, without further adieu:
1. I have had three exactly cell phones my entire cell-phone career. Only the most recent phone has been a flip phone.
2. Before I met my wife eight years ago, I didn’t own a television. Today I own two.
3. I have the uncanny ability to guess which Borough a New Yorker is from and can correctly identify, within four towns, anyone residing from my home state of Massachusetts.
4. In my 20s, I had a business reproducing Frescoes and lived in Italy for a summer. Some of the Frescoes I designed/produced made it into the Vatican gift shop and the Ringling Museum of Art.
5. I once held the official/unofficial title of “Magic Pony” while working at the MIT startup, Z-Corp. With the exception of co-founding Eat Media, it was the most thrilling, educational and fascinating experience of my life. Watch my former boss, Tim Anderson, make a canoes out of rattan chairs and microwaves into welders here…
6. When I first took a job at a NYC dotcom, I had nowhere to live, so I slept at the office and showered at the gym. My first big task as director of technical projects? Find the CTO a stand-up Spy Hunter video game. Those were the days.
7. The composer Charles Ives is one of my heroes. Sadly, when his former home went on the market in Irvington, NY, I was 7 or 8 hundred thousand shy of purchasing it.
8. A friend of mine is a big wig at the NBA. I asked him to get me into scrimmages at IMG Academies in Bradenton, Florida, where the pros play in the off-season. He said, “You’re fun to watch play and could hang for a few minutes but you don’t stand a chance.” (I still foolishly think I could run the point for a few teams.)
