Updated: Playing Blog Tag with 8 Things

I just now visited The World According to Carl, which is another blog in the Hillbilly Ecosystem.

There I saw a post entitled 8 Things. It's a blogging game, and the rules are as follows:

Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts. Players should tag eight other people and notify them that they have been tagged.

Okay, here are eight random facts about 1389, the admin of this blog:

1. One of my few pleasant memories from elementary school was the Bell Labs series of science documentaries, including Our Mr. Sun.
2. I used to take care of the birds and snakes for a small zoo in Ohio.
3. I once worked on an IBM 1401 Autocoder conversion. My, that goes back a ways...and that wasn't even my first programming job.
4. I once saw a tornado...from the inside. Not an experience I would care to repeat.
5. My maternal grandfather made his own beer during Prohibition.
6. My father drove a soft drink truck during the Depression.
7. My first computer was an IBM PC with two floppy drives, a green monochrome monitor, and an Epson dot-matrix printer, which cost me roughly five thousand dollars. To do graphics, I added a CGA board and used an RF modulator to route the results to an old black-and-white television set.
8. Many years ago, I lived and worked in downtown Chicago. At that time, I remember that there was a herd of stray cats living near the train tracks under the old U.S. Post Office building. I found out because I saw someone in an office building elevator who was bringing them food.

Now I have to find eight other bloggers to pass this along to. If you're a blogger and you don't have time to deal with this, I'll understand; otherwise, I invite you to give it a try. This is an opportunity for us bloggers to get more acquainted with one another, and for the public to get to know us a little better.

If you are seeing this blog post now and you feel like joining in, consider yourself "tagged" by 1389!

Update #1: I did manage to send the tag out to eight other bloggers, but not all at the same time. Hardware problems intervened, and I can no longer recall everyone who was on the list. Oh, well...

Update #2: Here are some random links from the same chain, both before and after me:

• Alabama Improper
• Amazingly Enough
• Conoscete Chi
• Days of Future Passed
• Each Day is a Gift
• Harvey Olson at Bad Example
• I Am My Kids' Mom
• Maranda Under Stress
• Right Truth
• Scott Allan

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