I'm It!

Thanks to Jan Garcia, I've been blog tagged!

Apparently I must divulge eight secrets or interesting things you guys don't know about me....

Oh jeeez.... We'll, I'm pretty open most of the time, so I'm not sure if I'll make all 8, but here goes. :)

1. I've trained in the martial arts my whole life. I have black belts in three arts: Shotokan, Tae Kwon Do, and Aiki jujutsu. I'm currently training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Both of my parents are black belts as well.

2. I lived in the Australian outback for 8 years.

3. My prior job involved launching spacecraft for NASA and "other" government agencies.

4. I can read/write/speak (enough to get my face slapped in a bar) Korean, Japanese and Spanish.

5. My photographic career started several years ago because of my interest in Astronomy. I wanted the best camera possible to take astrophotography shots. Thusly I bought a D70 and later a D200....and yet to take any astronomy shots!!!

6. I've never broken a bone in my body. Please knock on wood, so I don't break any in the future!

7. I don't use MS Windows at all. I abhor Microsoft, and use primarily a Power Mac for my front end and a room full of Linux machines in the back end for servers and firewall duties.

8. I won the Florida State Sunshine state games last year, in IDPA pistol shooting.
I was ranked number 5 in Florida state(for my class) in Limited 10 USPSA action shooting.

9. At my current job, about once a month I have to put on an Air Force flight suit and fly in RC-135 airplane test flights over the U.S for 8 hours at time; testing all my cool gear!

10. In addition to my computer studies degree. I have a degree in Psychology.

Well I made it! Nothing too revolutionary!

I guess it's time to tag someone else. It looks as if any one I know who blogs has already been tagged. I'll tag one good friend of mine. He doesn't have blog, but check out his stuff. Dave Koslowski totally rocks. He and I shoot models and HDR stuff all over north Texas. Check out his site and his Flickr site.

Later!
Mark