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One thing I know is that when Patrick Finch asks you to do something, you’d better do it. So, in compliance with this ’seven things’ meme that’s been spreading around furiously over the last week, here I go:

The rules:
1. Link to your original tagger and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

About me:
1. I’m a total trivia nerd (specializing in music trivia), and in 2001 I appeared on (and won) the game show Rock & Roll Jeopardy.
2. I’m originally from Arkansas, which is kind of an uncommon place to be from in the internet industry and/or Mozilla community. Go Hogs!
3. Bad border crossing #1: during a post-high school road trip, I was turned away at the Canadian border. My friends and I were pulled off the road, interrogated and eventually denied access to the country…the official reason being that we didn’t have enough money, but I’m pretty sure they thought we were drug smugglers (we weren’t). The good news is that they let me in for the Summit last summer.
4. Worst bad job: working at the FAO Schwarz in downtown San Francisco for three months in 1996. Best bad job: dressing up in period garb to work as a docent at a historic antebellum mansion in Memphis.
5. This isn’t directly about me, but my wife sings with the San Francisco Opera, which I think is pretty cool. We’re coming up on our 15th anniversary as a couple (dating back to this era)…a fact that kind of blows my mind.
6. Bad border crossing #2: my (future) wife and I were pulled off a train at the Italian/Swiss border by guards wielding guns and German Shepherds. We were detained in a small room at the border station for more than an hour while they completely took apart our bags and yelled at us in Italian. Once again they thought we were drug smugglers (and once again, we weren’t).
7. I (sporadically) play bass in a rock band. We’re all old guys with lots of other things going on so we don’t do it as often as we’d like, but we’ve had our moments. (This post has a couple of MP3s up if you’re curious.)

Your turn:
1. Alex Faaborg, because reading his blog posts is like taking a really good college class in UE design.
2. Jane Finette, because she can effortlessly drop words like “cheeky” and “chuffed” into the flow of conversation.
3. Steven Garrity, because he makes my job easier almost every day (and does cool podcasts).
4. Mike Morgan, because he’s a hell of a ping pong player.
5. Johnathan Nightingale, because he’s such a passionate supporter of the rights of the bearded.
6. David Rolnitzky, because he’s trying to increase his search engine rank.
7. Justin Scott, because he needs a boost after watching LSU lose to Arkansas two years in a row.