Once turned down a job offer from Bungie Software
(creators of Halo) back before they got bought by Microsoft. Can
now discuss this without crying.
Memorized The Elements Song for the fun of it.
Can count to 1,000,000 on his fingers using
binary.
Has a cat named Schrödinger.
Has a collection of radioactive dishware.
Used to be a sysop on a BBS back before "the Internet."
Was once handcuffed and had his rights read to him
by the police as a result of performing a science experiment
involving fluorescent light bulbs and high-voltage power lines.
Had a letter printed in New
Scientist magazine regarding the use of diffraction gratings
as material colorants.
Owns cats.
Worked at a job developing a computer game
where the only name the other employees referred to him by was "Deathwhore," his
online persona.
Camped out overnight to get his iPhone 3GS.
Melissa:
Has spent more than 1,600 hours playing Final Fantasy
games. Really.
Is actually a little proud of the tendonitis she
developed from all of that game playing.
Owned an extensive collection of Star Trek:
The Next Generation stuff, including technical manuals,
dozens of novels, and video tapes of every episode.
Reads grammar books and computer manuals for fun.
Nerdiest celebrity crushes: Weird Al and Teller.
Knows entirely too much about Family Guy (she’s
watched the first three seasons dozens of times).
Gets sunburned in approximately five milliseconds.
Knows the words to all the songs in Monty Python’s The
Meaning of Life.
Dreams about going back to school to take more math
classes.
Was in marching band for five years. Wore the dorky
outfit. Had a feather in her hat. Obsessed over whether the other
flute players held their instruments parallel to the ground.
Thinks UNIX is the most amazing thing ever.
Nerdiest book read: Fowler’s Modern English
Usage.
On her iPhone: Pandora. Brain Challenge. Aurora
Feint. Cube Runner.
