Theo Schlossnagle recently wrote a blog post called seven things. The idea is, seven things that you "might" want to know about him. Along those lines he listed me as someone he would like to know seven things about. It has taken me a while to get to the post because I have been busy with various things. So here we go, seven things about me.
The second part of this blog is I am supposed to list seven people I would like to know seven things about. This has struck me as more difficult than I imagined. Most of the people I want to know about, don't blog and barely email. Many other people don't interest me. Here we go:
- I have crashed a car at 135MPH and walked away.
- I did not finish High School.
- I am a master gardener.
- I am an entrepreneur not a computer geek.
- I think the Open Source community needs to learn when to be quiet.
- I hate it when people think I should care about x.
- I spent two recent years being someone, I am not. This problem has been resolved.
- Michael Stonebraker, because PostgreSQL doesn't interest him.
- Magnus Hagander, because he is my counterpart in Europe.
- Richard Stallman, because I have never seen a bigger hippy that is still living.
- W. Somerset Maugham, because he is one of the best authors I have ever read (yes I know he is dead).
- Bruce Momjian, because I realized he is a friend.
- Robert Treat, because I think he will struggle like I did to come up with this list.
- Tom Lane (TGL), because after all these years he will still graciously answer my email.