The_LED_Museum
*Retired*
My "claims to fame" are:
1: I was on the TV program "Candid Camera" on 05-09-90.
Here is the pewter coin I was given at the time:
2: One of my pet rats was on the TV program "AFV" im November 1998.
3: I was featured on Fox Sports Northwest during the summer of 1999 or 2000 at Safeco Field in Seattle; they were broadcasting a Mariners game, and apparently had their cameras trained on me for approximately 4 minutes in the 7th inning, using the telestrator on my head and wondering out loud how come people wore mohawk haircuts the way they do instead of side-to-side.
4: Around the turn of the century, I created a new cocktail called a "007" - this drink consisted of 33.4% Seven Up, 33.3% orange juice, ands 33.3% vodka. The drink is served in a large glass (16oz. capacity) on the rocks. Only one bar that I'm aware of ever served it - probably because the bartenders at this bar are the only other people (besides me) that were aware of its existence (because I told them what it was & how to make it).
5: My LED/flashlight/laser reviews website is the largest on the face of the planet.
Viewable content exceeds 1.00125 gigabytes.
LED & flashlight manufacturers regularly contact me solely because they found my website while performing a simple search on the internet.
6: My website was featured on...er...*AS* the front cover of a magazine in 2001.
To wit:
7: I hold two world records on coin-op arcade video games:
Looping (mfd. by Venture Line) - 2,458,770
Star Trek (mfd. by Sega) - 31,054,500
(The July 1983 copy of Electronic Games magazine)
(Page A2 from the Juneau Empire newspaper; month/day no longer known)
To the best of my knowledge, these records (obtained in the early-1980s) still stand to this day.
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Does anybody else here have a "claim to fame" - regardless of how small it might be?
1: I was on the TV program "Candid Camera" on 05-09-90.
Here is the pewter coin I was given at the time:
2: One of my pet rats was on the TV program "AFV" im November 1998.
3: I was featured on Fox Sports Northwest during the summer of 1999 or 2000 at Safeco Field in Seattle; they were broadcasting a Mariners game, and apparently had their cameras trained on me for approximately 4 minutes in the 7th inning, using the telestrator on my head and wondering out loud how come people wore mohawk haircuts the way they do instead of side-to-side.
4: Around the turn of the century, I created a new cocktail called a "007" - this drink consisted of 33.4% Seven Up, 33.3% orange juice, ands 33.3% vodka. The drink is served in a large glass (16oz. capacity) on the rocks. Only one bar that I'm aware of ever served it - probably because the bartenders at this bar are the only other people (besides me) that were aware of its existence (because I told them what it was & how to make it).
5: My LED/flashlight/laser reviews website is the largest on the face of the planet.
Viewable content exceeds 1.00125 gigabytes.
LED & flashlight manufacturers regularly contact me solely because they found my website while performing a simple search on the internet.
6: My website was featured on...er...*AS* the front cover of a magazine in 2001.
To wit:
7: I hold two world records on coin-op arcade video games:
Looping (mfd. by Venture Line) - 2,458,770
Star Trek (mfd. by Sega) - 31,054,500
(The July 1983 copy of Electronic Games magazine)
(Page A2 from the Juneau Empire newspaper; month/day no longer known)
To the best of my knowledge, these records (obtained in the early-1980s) still stand to this day.
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Does anybody else here have a "claim to fame" - regardless of how small it might be?
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" - pregnant pause as I smile quietly - "Barbara Streisand" she finished.
