Toughness
"When people hear I’m the world’s toughest programmer, they think I’m asking them to step outside."-Mike Lee
General
- Ride my bike everywhere, every day, year round, in Boston
- Occasionally I ride the bus†
- Share neighborhood with drunk Red Sox fans / drunk Northeastern students
- Use beta versions of Chrome for OS X no matter how buggy it is
- Type "sudo" before all of my Terminal commands*
- No dishwasher
- No cable, only rabbit ears
- Write/maintain my own websites
- Host my website using a GoDaddy account
- Fix my own toilet
- Separate recyclables
- Work too much
- Don't sleep enough
- eh kills aliens and doesn't afraid of anything
Feats
- Simultaneously worked 4 jobs, including a full-time position (Summer 2008)
- Installed OS 10.4.11 and 802.11n on a '98 Powerbook (November 2008)
- Consumed 12 Dunkin' Donuts in 7:25 (December 2002)
- Most Epic MBTA Trip Ever (January 2008)**
- Drank 13 beers in 13 minutes (February 2004)
- Beat SSFII as Guile on max difficulty without using special moves (1997)
- Hanover-Moosilauke OD, Freestyle (2003)
- Set up port fowarding for iChat on an NAT firewall router (2009)†
- Carbondale-Independence Pass-Carbondale; 104 miles, solo (June 2005)
- Broke away in the first KM of the GMSR road stage (September 2005)
- Slept exclusively on a futon (1993-2000, 2004-2006)
*-LOL, j/k
†-Not so much tough as pointlessly masochistic.
**-Starting in Winter Hill, Somerville:
89 bus to Sullivan
Orange Line to North Station
Commuter Rail to Lynn
436 Bus to North Shore Mall
Apple Store interview
435 Bus to Lynn
Commuter Rail to North Station
Green Line to Park
Red Line to Alewife
350 Bus to Burlington Mall
Another Apple Store interview
350 Bus to Alewife
Red Line to Kendall/MIT
Dinner at Westgate Tower with friends
1 Bus to Mass Ave
Orange Line to Sullivan
89 Bus to Winter Hill
All in one day, no missed connections.