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100 Things about Dan

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  1. I am well known for the outback hat I've worn since I was 16 and went to Australia.
  2. The hat has been run over, dropped off of a speedboat and out of a helicopter, and snatched by an emu.
  3. Due to excess wear and tear, I have surreptitiously replaced the hat from time to time.
  4. Does this mean it is spiritually the Same Hat?
  5. I am a certified SCUBA diver.
  6. I've dived in the Red Sea and off the Great Barrier Reef.
  7. I dream about swimming with dolphins.
  8. I was a competitive ballroom dancer.
  9. I have a life-size Chinese terra-cotta soldier in my living room.
  10. He wears one of my old hats.
  11. I've published two books on nanotechnology with my father, Mark.
  12. He knows all that can be known, but I know the rest.
  13. The books have been translated into French, Russian, Thai, and Korean. Of these, I speak only French.
  14. I can quote Mark Twain continuously for several hours without repeating myself.
  15. I can quote PG Wodehouse continuously for several hours not repeating myself any more than he repeated himself.
  16. I sing in the shower. Often against spirited opposition.
  17. I can laugh like a pirate.
  18. I was a sabre and epee fencer. Now I content myself with a machete and garden shears. Usually.
  19. I understand equations both simple and quadratical.
  20. I've founded or co-founded four startup companies.
  21. I have designed and fabricated microchips and printed circuit boards.
  22. I was in India for Holi and had my face smeared green, yellow, red and blue.
  23. I am repeatedly mistaken for Garth Brooks.
  24. It will go very hard with the next person who asks me if I am Garth Brooks.
  25. I also work for a non-profit organization, the Nanotechnology Alliance.
  26. I am also on the faculty of Northwestern...Students beware!
  27. I have a cactus garden.
  28. I love all vegetables, but dislike some tropical fruits.
  29. I HATE finding mango, kiwi or papaya in my ice tea.
  30. I have swum two miles across a lake in Maine.
  31. My eyes are BLUE.
  32. I collect wines, and my favorites are Spanish.
  33. I've read everything Alexandre Dumas has written that has been translated to English.
  34. I used to publish a satirical newspaper, The Dictator.
  35. I hate to fly.
  36. No really, I can't stand it.
  37. The amount that I hate to fly deserves at least three entries.
  38. I love teaching.
  39. I love coffee, though I'm no connoisseur. Vive caffeine!
  40. I never, ever watch TV.
  41. I rode a horse through the Jordanian desert and was referred to as "Dr Jones". (Much better than Garth Brooks.)
  42. I love to sail.
  43. I've bungee jumped from a 220' bridge.
  44. I installed my own ceiling fan.
  45. I do not in any way resemble William Howard Taft.
  46. But I did play the voice of John Hay during Brown's sound and light show.
  47. I do not have a beard like John Hay's. I'd get lost in it.
  48. Stacy threw me the best 30th birthday party that anyone has had ever.
  49. I don't eat fish.
  50. I'm considering becoming a vegetarian, but fish are definitely out.
  51. My deal with the fish is: I don't eat you, you don't eat me.
  52. I can identify most of the whales at the aquarium by sight and sound.
  53. I've never played football.
  54. I love to travel. It's the getting there I have issue with.
  55. I give away 30% of my salary to charity.
  56. I love eating out and can describe almost every meal with terrifying detail. I've contributed to Zagat.
  57. Are you still reading this?
  58. I love sketch comedy, but don't care for slapstick.
  59. I secretly enjoy reading Supreme Court decisions.
  60. I've flown to London on the sly to surprise Genevieve.
  61. I love to build things - legos, circuits, computers, software, it doesn't matter.
  62. I once worked for Lego.
  63. I collect art glass.
  64. My favorite cafe is Julius Meinl on Southport. I wrote one of our books there.
  65. I can cook when I really put my mind to it.
  66. I met Genevieve on the Internet.
  67. I'm six foot three.
  68. My oldest friend Conrad is about to have blond dreads. I'm not sure about this.
  69. My friend Tish knows Sanskrit, Hindi, Arabic, and several forms of Middle Egyptian.
  70. My friend "Dirty" isn't dirty at all.
  71. I am bigger than a breadbox.
  72. I do not know precisely what is meant by "commissariat".
  73. My friend Becky is an intelligence officer in the Navy.
  74. I am musically challenged. I can play "Alouette" on the piano, but that's it.
  75. I've changed the words to Alouette. I like the rewrite songs. They're usually silly.
  76. My mother once broke her ribs leaping from a horse. That was very bad.
  77. I've kayaked down the Jordan River.
  78. I used to be "Beaker" during my dad's chemistry shows.
  79. I'm Stacy's brother (if you hadn't guess that by now).
  80. I love her hound, Jameson.
  81. Did I mention that I hate to fly?
  82. Tom Stoppard is my favorite living playwright.
  83. I've written fiction and plays, too, but never published them.
  84. Stacy and I speak a language no one else can understand.
  85. On my wall is a picture of French President Jacques Chirac. I don't know why.
  86. I have fought a duel.
  87. I'm a Land Rover certified off-road driver.
  88. Yes, I drive a Land Rover. Not much point otherwise.
  89. Many of my friends call me Janet. It's my grandmother's fault.
  90. I can hold a variety of household objects in my eye sockets.
  91. My mom is a fabulous cook - better when her ribs aren't broken, of course.
  92. I use a Mac.
  93. I'm worried about the income gap in America.
  94. I think everyone should either travel or study abroad.
  95. I'm politically very active.
  96. I love to hear Genevieve sing.
  97. I want to take a class in mosaics.
  98. I've consulted for the Pentagon and for a national bank.
  99. No, you can't have my hat.
  100. Take of these elements all that is fusible, melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible set them to simmer and take off the scum and, well, I guess I am the residuum.