I haven’t flown a plane in years.
Because of heightened airport security?
No, I went to aircraft mechanic school and learned about how airplanes are maintained.
I haven’t flown as crew or passenger since.
Resolving IRQ conflicts on ISA devices
Somewhat relatedly, I still have the MSDN Windows 2000 license key memorized.
Needless to say, I have not had to install Windows 2000 on anything for quite some time.
NT4.0 key here
Cool, I had a Win98 one memorized for years but it’s gone now.
And of course there’s…
Still remember the sound blaster config?
220,5,1,5 or something similar. The overlap of me using DOS and having a soundblaster is quite narrow.
I have hyperphantasia, which means that I’m able to visualize things in my mind in a way that it looks exactly the same as it would in real life. If I see a puzzle that requires spatial reasoning, I can rotate it and manipulate it in 3D space in my mind.
I use this for CAD! It’s actually kind of frustrating because I often find my brain uses techniques that I can’t replicate using the controls on cad software.
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Sex.
I use it once every fifteen years.
I’m top notch at oral and love to do it, but I married a woman who doesn’t like it ten years ago. So much waste.
At first I was stunned, but then I realized I’ve had my dick sucked so much I don’t care for it as much as actually fucking. I did not know that about myself.
Congrats
I can vomit on command at most times without sticking a finger down my throat etc. I feel like that scientifically inaccurate dinosaur from the original Jurassic Park.
I’m a really good driver. Like rules of the road and all that, sure, but I also have some training in rally cars, am decent on a race track, and am generally a top 5 finisher in whatever Sim race I enter.
Wish I could afford to enter an IRL series.
Balloon animals.
Make me a bicycle, clown!
What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
I am able to recite toy commercials and obscure TV theme songs from 90s kids shows with surprising accuracy, many decades past consuming them - Crossfire, Creepy Crawlers, James Bond Jr. Denver the Last Dinosaur… I’m your guy. I don’t watch these things deliberately to learn them and haven’t seen them since organically seeing during childhood, they just start playing in my head on the smallest triggers, music and lyrics, verbatim.
This is what the inside of my head is like, all the time
I remember about 80% you tell me about you (if I’m listening) I won’t tell you what I know about you in order to not creep you out.
Do you remember their name too ?
Absolutely not. Only their faces
I can hear high frequencies that supposedly only kids and teens still can. The most recent time it was ‘useful’ was (spoilers) a magic show in Vegas a few years ago.
Otherwise my hearing is terrible.
Do you hear bats?
No, I have a pretty normal human range, just for a much younger human than I am.
(if it’s super loud I could reach 22khz, but that was a few years ago that I checked it)
I am reasonably acrobatic. I only get to use it when people are drunk and get the sudden urge to watch someone do a backflip.
Much lower level, but I’m over 50 and can do a great cartwheel. Was at a concert and these little kids were sitting in a line, one by one doing a cartwheel, I came and joined their line and when my turn came did the cartwheel they were just delighted, it was so cute.
Not otherwise acrobatic, a one trick pony. But it has very occasionally been a good trick.
I know kung fu (wing chun). I am however years out of practice, and also glad its not something i use very often.
I’m very good at remembering people’s birthdays. I stopped “using” it cause I think it creeps people out a bit, but at least with people I like it’s always nice to remember to congratulate them without relying on social media.
I’m shit with names though.
Have you had a situation where you remembered someones birthday only to twists their neme?
Huh?
- marshmallow roasting (I can perfectly control the level of browning on the outside and melted-ness on the inside)
- paper snowflake making (I can make them very intricate and come out exactly how I visualize them)
pretty shit at everything else though. I fat-fingered my skill points allocation hard.
I know how to do home canning, and making sure it’s safe. I just don’t get to do it often because it’s energy intensive on the me so it’s something I do about twice a year.
