Look, I’ve never been the one to get involved in stuff like this. You can search your inboxes for a long time without finding any sort of chain letter I’ve sent. I don’t ask people to send business cards to dying children and I certainly don’t ask people to join a pirate fight on Facebook.

I’ve relented though on the 25 Random things meme that is stampeding through Facebook right now. Mine are posted below. If you want to share yours with the Wikinomics community, cut and paste yours into the comments section.

1.       I only did one year of competitive improv, but probably learned more business skills during that time than any single course from my MBA. For my Facebook friends that are also clients, that doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m making stuff up when I’m delivering a presentation.

2.       I had a crush on Vicki Stubing from Love Boat. While that sounds creepy, it was completely age appropriate at the time. It makes my crushes on Dr. Melfi and Nicolette Grant seem a little childish.

3.       Somehow I brought two women (including my future wife) to my senior formal in undergrad. They ended up wandering through the staff kitchen of the London Radisson.

4.       I’ve completely planned out every step of my daughter’s academic career. She has no intention of following this (really cool) plan and is going to sabotage it at stage two when she’s in her interview for UTS. “Why do you want to attend our school?” “I don’t, my dad wants me to.”

5.       I tell people that I host monthly dinner parties for 12 (I do all the cooking), but in reality the frequency has slipped to more like quarterly. Still – it’s more dinner parties than you host.

6.       I’ve worked for the same organization for more than ten years although there have been seven company names. While I’m writing this list, I’m wearing an Alliance for Converging Technologies swatch.

7.       Working for a think tank for a decade has allowed me to meet a lot of really smart, interesting people. Too many to list here, but Rogow alone is worth the price of admission.

8.       I played a season of F level summer hockey on a team that only won one game. That game, though, we won 10-1 and Stephen J. Morrison and I combined for 11 points. After SJM tapped in his fourth goal, he made eye contact with me (to make sure I got the joke) and did a perfect impression of Bobby Orr humbly dropping his head and skating back to centre ice for the face-off.

9.       I’m undefeated at Cranium. It doesn’t take too many cocktails before I declare that I’m undefeatable.

10.   My favourite baseball player is Garth Iorg. While I only saw about 1% of his MLB games live, I witnessed 30% of his career homeruns.

11.   Probably the most fun I’ve had a concert was  Gowan at the Forum at Ontario Place in 1986. It was unironic fun.

12.   I’ve seen at least one Grey Cup in every current CFL city…plus Ottawa.

13.   I haven’t played Dungeons & Dragons in more than a quarter century but still remember minutiae like a two-handed sword causes 3-18 points of damage to a medium or large sized monster with a bonus of 6 points if you are a fighter with 18 (00) strength. Sadly, I didn’t need to Google to verify that’s correct.

14.   I don’t like musicals but have the score to Jesus Christ Superstar memorized.

15.   There’s probably a limit to how many times I’ll watch the The Shawshank Redemption, After Hours, Scent of a Woman, Pulp Fiction, Godfather, Godfather Part II, Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, and Midnight Run. I just don’t know that limit yet.

16.   I’m blessed to have many dear friends from high school. I especially love our little rituals like the mid-summer MT Productions party, the Champagne Weekend at Joy’s, Pagan Fest and the kid’s Christmas party at Julie’s House.

17.   The above friends are still a little baffled that I was able to marry someone as smart, good-looking and nice as Jenn. Frankly, I doubt they’d of given me two out of those three.

18.   My favourite non-fiction book is “A View from the Year 3000”. In order to qualify to read it, you must first read my third favourite non-fiction book “The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History” otherwise you will dismiss the former as the rant of a nut.

19.   My favourite website is www.1000awesomethings.com. I know the owner.

20.   I really miss the defunct discussion board at f*ckedcompany.com. They were the greatest group of sociopathic, mouth-breathing geeky trolls I’ve ever had the pleasure to know. Cupcakes sans Frontiers, I hardly knew ye.

21.   I haven’t bought a CD in more than ten years from an artist to whom I didn’t have a personal connection.

22.   I was once bitten by an emu. I deserved it.

23.   I introduced Dean Iacovelli, my freshman roommate, to Kurt Vonnegut about whom he did his Master’s thesis. I also introduced him to the woman who, shall we say, welcomed him into manhood.

24.   I’ve hired more than seventy interns over my career. Many of them still come to me for career advice.

25.   My favourite restaurant meal is the tasting menu at Aqua in San Francisco even though it includes a tiny piece of Chilean Sea Bass, which is technically an endangered species. I’ll save us all the indignity of making a thimbleful of Creamy Narwhal Soup joke.