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		<title>Seven facts about me that are not true</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think this sort of thing is a bit dumb. It&#8217;s a poor substitute for writing posts that actually talk about oneself and one&#8217;s interests in a way that goes beyond the surface-gloss, pique-the-reader&#8217;s-interest level and actually say something meaningful about one&#8217;s interests or philosophy for life. The only one of these I&#8217;ve seen that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think this sort of thing is a bit dumb.  It&#8217;s a poor substitute for writing posts that actually talk about oneself and one&#8217;s interests in a way that goes beyond the surface-gloss, pique-the-reader&#8217;s-interest level and actually say something meaningful about one&#8217;s interests or philosophy for life.  The only one of these I&#8217;ve seen that I thought was close to reasonable was the console-history one that made the rounds sometime in the last year, because it was non-random information that said something about the person&#8217;s activities while not actually being all that shallow.  It&#8217;s hard to think how one could talk about console history (which does say a lot about the commands the person runs regularly) in any more comprehensive and less glossy way, unless maybe you looked at the most common <em>series</em> of commands that had been run.</p>
<p>So here are the rules to this:</p>
<ol>
<li>Link to your <a href="http://burntelectrons.org/2009/01/seven-things-you-dont-care-about/">original tagger(s)</a> and list these rules in your post.</li>
<li>Share seven facts about yourself in the post.</li>
<li>Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.</li>
<li>Let them know they&#8217;ve been tagged.</li>
</ol>
<p>&#8230;and because I think this is partly a way to avoid saying something detailed and meaningful, I&#8217;m not going to share seven facts: I&#8217;m going to share seven facts <em>that are not true</em>.  How&#8217;s that for non-useful information&#8253;</p>
<ol>
<li>I am an <a href="http://www.bodybuilders.com/jwalden.htm">amateur body builder</a>.</li>
<li>I am a <a href="http://www.spellingbee.com/00bee/rounds/round08.htm">poor speller</a>.</li>
<li>I am the <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350442#c5">E4X sub-module owner</a>.  (Brendan said &#8220;close to&#8221;, not &#8220;are&#8221;, and besides: I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be the E4X sub-module owner; that if nominated by Brendan, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected by every SpiderMonkey super-hacker I should decline to serve.  Because I&#8217;m too smart to fall for that, and because I know what&#8217;s good for me.  <img src='http://whereswalden.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':-P' class='wp-smiley' />  )</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything of interest in this recent YouTube video by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, so you shouldn&#8217;t waste any time to watch it:
<p><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/wtOW1CxHvNY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wtOW1CxHvNY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wtOW1CxHvNY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344" /></object></p>
</li>
<li>I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.</li>
<li>I do not intend to do any more long-distance backpacking trips, or (logical or!) I do not intend to do any similarly long-distance cycling trips.</li>
<li>I didn&#8217;t spend a couple weeks in summer 2007 hacking Facebook in my spare time, or (logical or again, head spinning yet?) I didn&#8217;t give a <a href="http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/2008/facebook/">class about Facebook&#8217;s JavaScript sandbox and how I could break it</a> last January.</li>
<li><em>Bonus!</em>  My last name is de Morgan.</li>
</ol>
<p>Now, let&#8217;s see about some <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4182527827993547462">victims</a> from the set of people I haven&#8217;t yet noticed doing this:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz/">bz</a>!  one needs no reasons to select bz</li>
<li><a href="http://twoeyedgirl.wordpress.com/">Jenny Liebig</a>, a friend from pre/elementary/middle school and the last millennium (whoa) and intermittently since then due to divergent paths in life</li>
<li><a href="http://www.squarefree.com/">Jesse Ruderman</a>, because he happens to be the closest person at hand to use at the moment</li>
<li><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/">Brendan</a>, because he throws &#8220;salad days&#8221; and &#8220;epiphenomenal&#8221; around with impunity in normal conversation</li>
<li><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dmose/">dmose</a>, because he commented on a past post here</li>
<li><a href="http://tieguy.org/blog/">Luis Villa</a>, who knows more caselaw than I do (because he doesn&#8217;t just pretend to be a lawyer on TV)</li>
<li>jminta, who doesn&#8217;t have a blog and will probably ignore this because lawyers are too often stuffy types (his present and/or future employers, that is)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;jminta&gt; Waldo: dump(&#8220;Things:\n&#8221;) for (var i = 1; i &lt;= 7; i++) dump(&#8220;I can count to &#8221; + i + &#8220;.\n&#8221;);</p>
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