second go at this
I won the Daily Telegraph Scrabble Challenge about ten years ago. Got 25 quids worth of book tokens and my name in the paper.

Have shared a taxi with Sir James Saville OBE, who i found to be an intriguing person.

I have had lunch with the Australian artist Ken Done. Top man, he arranged an exhibition of a mate of mine's pics to happen in Sydney.

Two mates of mine are Guinness Book of Records record holders, they designed and had built the world's largest juke box, which is part of Namjatown, an indoor amusement park owned by Namco, in northern Tokyo. My mates also designed and had built, Namjatown. Their dad created monsters for Godzilla movies, years ago. And a mate of theirs, who i have got to know, was the designer of the Japanese pavilion at the World Expo in Spain in 1992.
We also have a mutual friend who is an anchorman for Bloomberg Japan, the 24 hour financial channel. Mad as a sack of hens he is, great guy and really knows his stuff.

As a result of this post on B3ta
www.b3ta.com/board/496182
i had an invitation directly from the editor of Mad magazine to become a contributor.

I was an admin for Bungie's game Myth 2 Soulblighter, the guy who invited me to become a BNA (Bungie Net Admin) went on to be part of the team on Halo, and lead programmer on Halo 2, perhaps you have heard of those games :)
I also had several flame wars from the guy who created Halo, Jaime, and lots and lots of flame wars and general notgettingontogetherwellatallness with his girlfried and fellow BNA, Meg, aka Pallor.

I have my name as writer on the English version of Koei's PS2 game: Naval Ops: Warship Gunner. I did indeed write it, and also researched names and designations for all ships and weapons. Also wrote all the dialogue. If you played it, then i can tell you that all the enemy ships/weapons are from Icelandic or Norwegian, and the good guy's stuff uses gaelic names. I was trying to get a Viking vs Celts thing going.

Contributed one idea to the Spitting Image book published nearly 20 years ago now, Nouvelle Cuisine du DHSS. I didn't write the text though.

I may have helped start Gail McKenna's career as a model in London, i cast her for a Malibu trade ad, a topless pic of her was used on a spoof mock-up front page of The Sun in the ad, and two weeks later she was on page 3 of The Sun.I met her when she'd just come down to London from Liverpool. I recall that she was a delightful lass, although i will admit that i was too shy to attend the topless shoot.

A good mate of mine in Hong Kong, John, is the holder of two basic patents on motherboard design. As you might expect he is rather wealthy (and full of excellent advice too), and he also developed McDonald's tills' touch screen technology.

I worked briefly for the Booker Prize winning author Peter Carey.
Which is a really crap claim to fame as far as i'm concerned.


Any of the others crap?
(Man in Japan, Wed 2 Mar 2005, 6:26, Reply)