three things meme

[totient]

Last time the three things meme came up I concluded that my most interesting things are more "three unusual things I have done with people who don't happen to read my LJ" than three things I'd done on my own. But on reflection there are some things I think I can put down which won't be quite as much a function of which social circles read this blog. So...

Three things I've done that I'd be surprised if any of my friends (on LJ or otherwise) had:

• Made an astronomical observation with an optical telescope of >5m aperture
  
• Gone on a >1000km bike ride Edit: Finished last in a multi-day bike race
  
• Competed in a motorsport by writing a computer program

Comments

[coraline]

i know multiple people who have biked across the united states (including ceelove and moominmolly...)

http://intrepidheroines.net/

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Does this mean he has to drink now? ;)

[coraline]

i dunno, but it might be a fun drinking game :)

i think kirkcudbright might have done it as well, though i'm not sure... and also my friends wavyarms and badoingdoing and chmrr, though i don't think he knows any of them :)

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

Oh, and kirkcudbright, of course! Adding "solo, unsupported" to the bike ride doesn't help there.

I was the red lantern in a six-day stage race, though; that's perhaps a little less usual.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I think frobzwiththingz also biked across the US (or at least began the trip).