I almost smashed into Robin Williams at the only computer store in Northern California in 1982.

I was walking around the game case while staring at the contents with 100% of my concentration only to realize at last second that I was about to suffer an imminent collision with someone. I look up and it’s the guy who I watched on Mork and Mindy growing up.

The look on his face was something along the lines of ‘who the hell is this weirdo’. I was so mortified.

Bonus, he died on the same day that I was part of a much suckier collision (5 car pile up that left me with permanent injuries).

I won a large online poker tournament (~5000 entries). It was for SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker) and I was sent a very nice trophy and customized hoodie with my username on it.

Ha, Sway of MTV fame (now he does a show on xm or whatever it’s called now) follows me on Instagram. I met him playing poker. Nice dude.

I encoded one of the very first mp3’s ever made, when it was still a “theoretical” model by Fraunhofer. I sung “I will survive” but in my very bad impression of William Shatner, accidentally posted it many years later on Napster, and found that copy following around many years after that on a torrent site. So, if you have a very old, very fake “Shatner” singing “I Will Survive”, it might be me.

Rap Battles of History said they liked my idea and used it as an example of a good idea to some other people.

I said “Neil Armstrong vs Jacques Cousteau: pioneers of the final frontiers” or something to that effect.

In the end they did Jacques vs someone else.

I spilled Diet Coke on Ann Coulter.

Clips from my very old Sven Co-Op youtube videos were used in the NoClip documentary about Half Life. One of the friends I played with too has some old clips used.

I wasn’t notified at all, I was just watching the documentary and basically did this:

I’m 2 degrees of separation from Elon Musk, Max Levchin, and Tim Walz.

I set the world record on a Ballistic.NG track about a week after the leaderboard wipe

For a long time I was in the first image result if ‘London goth’ was typed into google.

I was among the first hundred people to join Reddit.

I was my states chilli eating champion and even competed in the national championship

Back in WoW’s Burning Crusade days, my friends and I ran one of the most successful guilds on one of the most competitive servers. That was true before and after TBC, but during is when we became slightly known.

We had invented our own loot system in an attempt to make one that was fair. It was designed to be fair not only in regards to accumulating points with which to bid on items, but also to encourage and enable participation of both existing and new members. Anyway, it was complicated and it worked.

Our loot system ended up getting a short article written about it in some gaming magazine. I wish I had a copy of it. My one friend still does. I don’t even remember which magazine it was.

A friend of mine and myself invented the word “twat-waffle” and no one ever believes me

I was a disc jockey in radio, not clubs, off and on for several years. I was never a big name or well known.