I’ll go first, to set the tone:
Tay Zonday of ‘Chocolate Rain’ fame used to follow me on Twitter. 💪
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I’ve vomited on 5 continents.
Many of the songs I ripped and shared via Napster in the late 1900’s continued to appear on legitimate platforms years later.
psst Hey, uh listen. We’ve all been talking and while, yes the term late 1900’s is factually correct, you can just not say it. Like it’s so easy, you don’t have to do anything or can do literally anything else.
🫡 Thank you for your song preservation service.
How do you know they are the same files though?
Same bitrate, file size, and metadata (with my tags still included), along naming schemes and occasional misspellings.
I wonder how many of my Oink’s Pink Palace uploads are still around, or Waffles.
Kinda miss discovering music that way but don’t have the energy/time to spend on it these days. Maybe pick it back up when my kid leaves for college in about a decade.
I’m that person for the science series The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke.
As a child I was body slammed on a bouncy castle by Weird Al Yankovic.
I won front row tickets and a meet and greet with him as a look alike contest! Because I was the only one that showed up dressed like him!
I’m jealous
lol I wanna hear more about this story!
I kinda wanna reply with a shittymorph and how weird al ended up plunging 50 ft through the air onto him through the announcers table or something something. But I’m too lazy.
I ran in a 10km race and ended up taking a wrong turn. Everyone behind followed me. A small local newspaper interviewed me. I ended up in a quick tv segment and had a small write up in the paper.
Oh man, what happened when you realized? Did you have to stop like Forrest Gump or could you lead them back on track?
Hahaha, that happened to me as well, although nobody followed me. I ended up in the marathon race, for which I hadn’t trained, so after 30 km (!) I had to finally give up and ride back in shame in the car they had at that station together with the others that didn’t made it.
I did run the marathon a few years later.
I worked with Linus Torvalds, met Carl Sagan, and caught a cold from Danny Elfman.
I am responsible for accidentally getting a landowner and big game hunter on the other side of the world investigated by the EPA for something he didn’t do, and a podcast episode was made about it. All I did was post a comment on Reddit.
For a long time I was in the first image result if ‘London goth’ was typed into google.
Many years ago I was on a Greyhound bus trip. I was traveling about 3 hours from my home & it was the easiest way to get to my destination for lack of decent air service Otherwise I would have simply flown. I informed the bus driver that a very odd passenger was having some intestinal distress & retreated to the lavatory. I was unfortunately sitting nearby when I knew that the driver should be informed of the potential degree of olfactory danger we were flirting with. It was a stormy night and that driver made the proper call to deal with the issue which caused us a slight delay. However, that little setback saved us from being caught in a landslide. The junkie crapping all over the bathroom was the hero. I was merely the messenger.
Sante and Kenny Kimes: A notorious mother-son team who committed a string of crimes across the United States, including robbery, fraud, arson, slavery, and murder. Their story was the basis of the TV movie A Little Thing Called Murder and featured in a Netflix documentary.
When they were arrested the son had my business card in his jacket. The police interviewed me but we could never figure out how he got it.
Shit, that’s definitely the kind of people you don’t want to know your name.
I imagine you probably gave a card to someone who handed it off to another guy who donated his jacket to Goodwill or something like that.
The Daily Show flew out to my hometown for an investigative report on stolen Crimewatch signs.
I still have mine.
Jon Stewart or the others?
It was before Jon Stewart. And I’m pretty sure it was Colbert who actually did the on scene reporting.
Colbert started two years before Stewart?
Yes. Craig Kilborn was the host for the first 3ish years. Colbert was a correspondent from midway through Kilborn’s tenure.
I never knew that I thought Jon was there first!
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Snoop Craiggy Craig all day long, baby.
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.
It MIGHT be you? How many recordings like that do you think are bouncing around?
At least one other that I have encountered, and the band Cake also did the song and they almost sound like they’re doing a Shatner…
I wonder if they found yours and that inspired them?!
Awesome!
I set up a SteamLink app onto a Raspberry Pi but I ran into a bug and couldn’t get it to work correctly. Valve acknowledged that they were looking into fixing it but after a few weeks of checking, I just put it aside and forgot about it.
Well nearly a year later, the thought randomly popped into my head that I should check to see if they had fixed it. I went to the Steam Link section of Steam’s forum, and sure enough, one of Valve’s devs had posted a new version that fixed the issue.
… 30 seconds prior to me checking the forum.
I’ve never had something like that align so perfectly, but also for something so ridiculous as that.
I had that with a GitHub repo seemed abandoned, only to get updated first time in 4 years just a minute before I checked.
I did a photo shoot for Johnson and Johnson as an infant lol for one of their products.
And also was one of the IRL kids on Teletubbies.
Were the Teletubbie as creepy to be around IRL (in full costume and character) as they were to watch? I was a bit old for the Teletubbies target audience range when it was out but I was still a kid and they gave me the heebie-jeebies.
Haha I wish I could answer that but I wasn’t on the set itself.
I don’t remember the context exactly as it’s been a while since I watched, but IIRC every episode they used to show learning activities that kids did as a “peek” into the IRL world, sometimes individually and sometimes as a group. Example: https://youtu.be/AgC1CFISch8?t=4m41s
I was in one of the episodes where kids did some group activity. I don’t really remember it much though, I would have been less than 5 years old.
I still haven’t managed to find which episode the one I was on; it should actually be sort of easy to find it for certain reasons but it’s… Teletubbies. I’m not arsed enough 😂
I was among the first hundred people to join Reddit.
I was among the first couple thousand to join gmail.
People who think that my simple email address is their email address (which I guess is my email address plus some numbers or something) have become the bane of my existence in the years since.
I’ve had at least three different people on different continents provide my Gmail address to various services. I’ve ignored most messages meant for those people, but one gave it to his lawyer when he was charged with a serious crime for which his conditions of release forbade contact with children. I took the time to tell the lawyer that’s nothing to do with me.
Woah. Are you still on it now? Why or why not?
I am, with the obvious username. I mostly only post in /r/flashlight now, as it’s the most active community anywhere online for that niche interest.
Remember to double-space your answer in a 12-point font.
I have a low-6-digit Slashdot account, and I was user 480 on the Minecraft bukkit forum lol
There’s a blast from the past! Thanks for the reminder. I have a 5-digit user ID account, and I just checked to find out that it’s still active. I probably hadn’t logged in for about 15 years, and it still has an email address that went away 25 years ago.
I had a sub-5k Slashdot account. As I recall. Always found it weird how people made a big deal out of low ID users, but I swear nobody ever gave a damn about me.
I had the same for fark.
I have improved the lives of many people in small ways via my job as a therapist. The best part is that I know this for a fact by seeing the improvement over time. Therapy is, in some respects, about re-parenting people; the damage you help heal is intimate and permanent. You help people grow, literally. Very rewarding, again, in the long run.
Downvoted, not unimpressive.
(j/k, good on ya)
