5 Things You May Not Know About Me

Ted Rheingold tagged me to do a 5 things you may not know about me - so here we go.

- I’m a high school dropout with no formal education. (technically probably still on leave from high school).

- I’m 29 years old and live in Copenhagen, Denmark with my girlfriend and our two kids.

- In my teens i was a hockey dj, actually the reason why my family got a real computer. DJ’ing for 1.000-2.500 people for ice hockey games - a great learning experience about the symbiosis of top-down creating a motion and the crowd self organizing chanting - finding the balance between the two, feeling the vibe of the game/augmenting the game, but not becoming the game. I still believe great hockey dj’ing is deeply underestimated ;) .

- I ran a pirate radio station in school broadcasting 30 minutes each day with Christian Schmidt. Still one of the neatest hacks ever when we (or he?) realized that a specific old cassette player connected to the school broadcasting system meant we could broadcast from the class room to the school at large. (along the way we went a bit over the line and it got institutionalized and quickly got very boring - going to the headmasters office and putting on the tape was a different experience :) .

- In the months before each years reboot i have frequent night mares about all that could go wrong (apparently something many conference/festival organizers have). My most bizarre nightmare is a reboot held on a beach (!) with 500 people without having done any planning having to make it up as the day goes along…

I’m tagging Nikolaj, Pind, Hartvig, Trine-Maria and Ralf Beuker to do the same.

5 Responses to “5 Things You May Not Know About Me”

  1. Morten Says:

    Hockey DJ - så har man hørt det med!
    Jeg har været til et par hockeykampe, men selvom det efterhånden er en del år siden (muligvis inden du optrådte) har det sat store spor i hukommelsen. Vrede voksne mænd med børn der kaster ting efter dommeren mens de råber “vi ved hvor dine børn går i skole”, og reklamerne i højttalerne som fx “hos Erna og Søren (red. en bodega) - 5′eren går lige til døren” etc.
    Har du stadig lydeksempler fra den tid?

  2. Hartvig Says:

    Five things trackback…

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    While being on the road …

    … I still owe these guys a (blog) favor:
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    – Mike Wagner: “Thin Slicing Meme”
    – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal: “5 Things Meme&rdquo…

  4. Stephanie Booth Says:

    Hi Thomas! Speaking of reboot… I’m about to book my flight to come over this year, but I’m a bit worried that nothing about reboot9 is on the site. I suppose things are getting planned/organised and we’ll be able to register shortly, but would you mind giving confirmation? Thanks a bunch.

  5. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal Says:

    31.5 and the 1.6 is the dates with possible events the day before and the day after..

    site coming soon with registrering, etc.

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