Category: Silly

I was tagged by Peggy Andrews at The Career Encouragement Blog to tell the world 8 random things about me.

I am more than happy to oblige. Here are 8 random things few people know (and even fewer want to know) about me :o)

1. I loooooove sci-fi in books, movies and TV. Firefly, Dune, Neuromancer, The Matrix, Cryptonomicon, Heroes, The Stainless Steel Rat, Lost, the Vorkosigan books, The Dresden Files (the books, NOT the TV show), Blade Runner, the Alien movies … you name it.
2. I go to the movies 1-2 times a week on average. Last movie I saw: Planet Terror (Grindhouse Vol. 2). It’s utterly disgusting and it rocks :o)
3. I love design. In many ways, how a thing looks is more important to me than how well it works. I bought my motorcycle not for its performance or durability – but because it’s pretty.
4. 2-3 times a week, I teach aerobics in Scandinavia’s largest fitness chain. That’s right – I get paid to exercise :o)
5. I’m half Greek, half Danish; was born in Tunisia; lived in Spain as a small child; grew up in Denmark.
6. I’m a certified laughter instructor. I took a course in laughter yoga with the Indian doctor who invented them, which means I know how to get groups of people to laugh at absolutely nothing.
7. I read. A lot. At any given time, I’m reading 3-5 different books. I can’t go to sleep at night without something to read.
8. I recently took up a new hobby. Wakeboarding. MAN, that’s a lot of fun. If the weather wasn’t so bad in Copenhagen these days, I’d be there every day :o) See below!

My new hobby: Wakeboarding at the Copenhagen Cable Park. Watch the end of the video for my grand finale:

I’m supposed to pass this on to 8 people, but I’ll limit myself and pass the tag on to:

• Jacob Boetter at Heute Denken Morgen Fertig
• Mike Wagner at Own Your Brand
• Steve Roessler at All things workplace
• Phil Gerbyshak at Make it great
• Susanne Goldstein at The Social Age

Most mornings I sit in my friendly neighborhood café and read email and blog (I wrote about why here) – a habit that has its clear advantages. Not only is the coffee great and the people nice, occasionally the entertainment is also top-notch.

Such as yesterday, when I overheard this conversation between two young women at the next table discussing a recent vacation:

“Don’t tell me you’ve never heard of the Khmer Rouge?”

“I’ve heard about Moulin Rouge!”

Jodee Bock, author of the excellent book The 100% Factor, tagged me for a game of 5 things you don’t know about me. So here are five not commonly known factoids about me:

1: 2-3 times a week, I teach aerobics in Scandinavia’s largest fitness chain. That’s right – I get paid to exercise :o)

2: I’m half Greek, half Danish; was born in Tunisia; lived in Spain as a small child; grew up in Denmark.

3: I may be the only person in the world who doesn’t like chocolate. Seriously – it tastes awful to me…

4: I’m a certified laughter instructor. I took a course in laughter exercises with the Indian doctor who invented them, which means I know how to get groups of people to laugh at absolutely nothing.

5: I’m a voracious reader. At any given time, I’m reading 3-5 different books. I can’t go to sleep at night, without something to read.

Google knows the answer to life the universe and everything.

This joke is for geeks and Douglas Adams fans only :o)