Breaking a long-standing rule of meme boycotts (and delving into the personal) here are Five Things the readers of inkBlots probably don’t know about me. Blame Mike Sansone for tagging me on this one.

1) The very first time I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane, my parachute didn’t properly deploy. It took me about 2500 hundred feet (out of 5000) to coax it completely open. I wasn’t pleased with the experience, so I jumped a couple more times until I got it right.

2) In 1994 I worked as a script reader in Hollywood while taking film classes. I read the script for Daylight and passed it on to my boss, who made it into a movie starring Sylvester Stallone. Some of my feedback on the script actually made it into the next draft, but I take no responsibility for the film as a whole. I turned down an assistant-to-the-producer job so I could finish school… and never worked in Hollywood again.

3) I helped build a school for deaf children in Jamaica.

4) As a kid, after watching Dukes of Hazzard with my friend David, we noted that downed power lines make sparks when they touched water. Later that day we decided to pee on an electric fence to make sparks. I learned a lot about how a highly-saline liquid is remarkably good at conducting electricity, and what 60 cycles sounds like from inside your bladder. David learned how to run half-way across the field without ever pulling up his pants.

5) I’m going to be a dad again. Which goes to prove that God gives us second and third chances when we’ve thoroughly messed up the first ones. And it also goes to prove that peeing on an electric fence doesn’t prevent you from starting a family one day.

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