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

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[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

Palomar, in the pre-CCD days, using a vacuum-tube photomultiplier not eyeballs.