The number is seven
January 7th, 2009 | Published in Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Internet meme: Seven Random Things About You
Happy New Year! I’ve been tagged by Marta Strickland, who was tagged by Stacy Lukas, who was tagged by Ken Burbary, who was tagged by… (yes, this is a chain letter type of thing) to list seven random things about myself. The way this whole thing works is simple: list seven things about yourself in a blog post, then tag seven new people at the end of the post. Without further ado, here’s my list of seven things, in no particular order:
1. I’m a geography geek. I’m not as good anymore as I was as a 10-year old, but I can still place (almost) any country correctly on the map, remember the names of (almost) all capital cities and love reading about the history of random towns and cities around the world on Wikipedia. I drew a world map from memory some years ago and hung it up on my wall. What’s the capital of Montenegro? Podgorica. Where is Vanuatu? In the South Pacific Ocean, north-east of New Caledonia.
2. I’ve never had any major injuries, broken bones, or operations. I better knock on wood now, but I’ve never suffered any broken bones or been hospitalized since I was born. I played hockey for several years when I was young (now I don’t really care for hockey at all), drove go-karts (now I don’t really like cars) and I was in judo for long enough to earn an orange belt, but I was never a rough kid, and shied away from most tough games other boys played. Maybe that’s why I never really got hurt, and I like to think that my barefoot long-distance running is saving me from a few colds a year.
3. I have a fetish for airports and airlines. Although not as strong anymore as it used to be, mostly due to my environmental concerns and long-distance travel fatigue, I love airports, planes and random facts about different airlines. I used to run an air travel themed record label called Abflug, which is German for (flight) departure.
4. I’m an electronic musician and a deejay. This is not a very unknown, or random, fact about me, but maybe getting a bit weird as I get older? I ran a record store in my original home town, Tampere, in Finland in the 90′s. I’m not one of the brightest stars in the world of minimal techno and house, but I’ve managed to make myself a little bit of a name, toured around Europe, North America and Japan, and released more than a handful tracks on vinyl, CD, and MP3.
5. I’m the only man in my family in my generation. My family isn’t very big, on my mom’s side I’ve got one aunt and uncle and a handful of cousins. My dad had nine siblings, but many of them had no kids, and those who did are/were much older than my father, who’s almost the youngest child in the family. My cousin Kyösti is getting close to 60, and I can say that I’m the only man in my family in my generation.
6. I’m a very bad swimmer. I do dog paddle. I can also swim a bit of breaststroke for very short distances, and awkward front crawl. We had swimming lessons in elementary school, but to me they consisted of kids bullying each other and teachers forcing us to learn quickly or not learn at all. I had no fun.
7. I long for warmer, sunnier climate and think that I was meant to live in Mauritius. Not that I want to speed up the climate change by any means or that I don’t like the infrastructure, services, and quality of living in certain countries in the northern hemisphere, but I’m not a winter person and my skin always suffers from the lack of sunlight and the cold air. When I worked in the United Arab Emirates I seriously enjoyed the days it was 50 degrees (122 Fahrenheit) out. The hotter the better.
Now, here are the rules and the people I pick next (please let me know if you’ve already been tagged, so I can choose a new victim):
- Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
- Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
- Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
- Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.
About the author
I have over a decade of experience working in digital media, advertising, and digital and social product design first as graphic designer and art director, and then as concept designer - a role very similar to a creative director, but with a stronger focus on user experience design and marketing strategy. I've also worked as project manager, managing projects for clients like Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones. I have gained experience in three different countries on three different continents: Finland, The United Arab Emirates, and Canada. Currently, I work as a Senior Experience Architect at Organic, Inc in Toronto, Canada. I work together with other strategists, creative directors, writers, designers and developers to create experiences that deliver exceptional value to clients and their customers.
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