Our friends over at JKLMNOP blog put up a post that asked that I list seven facts about myself. It sounded like fun, especially when I read our friend Karen’s list. I knew about the pianos, the cooking, and the quilting, but I was way impressed when I found she is swimming five days per week! So here goes:

  1. My mother found my first job in the robotics (machine vision) field in 1984. I have been working in machine vision ever since.
  2. I wet my bed until I was nine years old.
  3. The first time I ever ate hummus and pita bread was in a small Arab restaurant on the side of a hill in Nazareth (Israel).
  4. I have eaten Mexican food in Brno, Czech Republic (Hacienda Mexicana – Ok) and Malacca, Malaysia (Renaissance Malacca Hotel – Awesome!).
  5. I have a black belt (1st degree-shodan) in Kodakan Judo with certificates to prove it. I started playing judo at age nine.
  6. When I was in college, I wrote funny poems that I sent to my sisters who were in high school at the time.
  7. One of my greatest memories was when my cousin Merle bought my brother and I five scoop black berry ice cream cones at a little homemade ice cream store in Oakridge, Oregon. I think I must have been about eleven years old at the time.

The main people I would like to see do this are: H|esoteric, Lyle W., and Charlie. They are supposed to list seven things about themselves, strange or mundane, if they are so inclined. If they do so, they need to ask seven others to do the same.