There’s been a trend growing lately among the digital spheres I hang around… People have started blogging about seven things that people (their readers) don’t necessarily know about them. I think it’s a pretty nifty thing, because how often do you say things to random people that you usually don’t say to many of the people you know? I think it can tell a lot about a person, but that’s just me. There’s also the whole chain aspect. In your “Seven Things” post, you’re supposed to “tag” seven people that will, in turn, do the same thing. In the end, everyone learns about their friends, and you do some networking! Here’s my personal contribution to keeping the meme alive!

1. I have visibly chipped a tooth in a mosh pit several years ago (lower incisor) at Montreal’s Foufounes Electrique. The song was “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine. I also lost my glasses that night. And yes, I was shitfaced.
2. I have never flown. I also have never been outside my birth country, Canada. The farthest I’ve been is Halifax and Dartmouth (Nova Scotia) or sailing on Lake Champlain (up to Burlington, VT).
3. I was in a foster care for six months when I was 16. I shared my room with a guy who had blown a hole in his cousin’s stomach with a 12 gauge while I was there because my father thought I wasn’t participating enough in the household chores. I have not seen or talked to my father since. I was kicked out for smoking weed. What would YOU have done?!
4. I started on the internet back in 1993 with a site called WebDepart (who was started, I learned years later, by iWeb’s president) who offered Java based IRC client. I was 13. I lied about my age, and it worked even when I met people from the IRC channel. It was on the WebChat network. I stayed there for a few years, and became IRCop for 2-3 years, which is how I learned english and the basics of programming.
5. I owned a high traffic site that had a million visits per month. I never put ads on it – except one: a banner for my host which in exchanged, hosted the site for free. I interviewed big names of the IRC world. The reason I stopped? It was too much work for a single person, not enough appreciation, too much competition and content stealing, and the domain expired (but was immediately re-registered by someone else, of course).
6. I sport five tattoos. In chronological order: a dragon on my right calf, Drizzt Do’Urden on my right bicep, coordinates on my collarbone, COEXIST on my right forearm and the infinity symbol wrapped in barbed wire on my nape. Two of them were re-inked, just for the feeling. Except for the dragon, they all carry extremely meaningful stories, feelings or ideas to me, and I usually dislike to talk about them except for their appearance. There’s a degree symbol missing from the coordinates, and the relativity formula from the forearm is missing the equal sign. Both are intended “mistakes”.
7. I have lived in Repentigny, Lavaltrie, L’Assomption, Dartmouth, Laval and Montreal. I first moved to Montreal in Pointe-Aux-Trembles, then Mercier, then St-Leonard, then Outremont (though I like to say it’s The Plateau).

Now, I tag these seven people to continue the chain:

• Samuel Lavoie
• Sylvain Carle
• Frederic Lemieux
• Gary Haran
• Ziggy Hagopian
• Janina Szkut
• CloudRaker (yes, a company! I want to know seven little known things about it, eat me)

These are the rules apparently:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some wierd.
• 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.