7 Things You Don’t Know, and Probably Don’t Care, About Me

Better said, 7 Things You Don’t Know, and Probably Don’t Care, About Us.

This post is an answer to Andrew Wise who decided to call us out. No, you won’t see a chicken-fight, but some things you probably don’t know about us, very likely you don’t even care about them.
Since Devoracles is a multi-author blog, we’ll say things which are common in all the authors.
So, here are the 7 things:

1. We adore coffee; we drink a lot of coffee. And when I say coffee, I don’t mean the brown water you can buy at Starbucks. No, that’s just not enough for us. We buy the coffee beans, grind it in the office and prepare it in the following way:
   • the finely ground coffee, optionally sugar, and water are placed in a narrow-topped pot and brought to the boil then immediately removed from the heat. Wait until it cools a bit, then boil it again. This way you extract everything from the coffee and what you obtain will be as strong as a horse’s kick. I think in the US this coffee is called “mud coffee”
2. We are all heavy smokers. Maybe it’s a stupid and useless habit, but at least we are not afraid to say that we do love to smoke. For those who are interested we all smoke American cigarettes (imported Lucky Strike and Marlboro)
3. We all have Uni degrees. Some of us have IT related, two of us have journalism related degree and myself, well, I’m the black sheep as per my papers I’m a construction engineer. Ironically, only the journalists work in their own field
4. The favorite movies are the following: The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings (all of them), Schindler’s List and the War Photographer.
   OK, the first two needs some explication: they are almost 100% made on computers and the result is just fantastic.
   It is weird, but when asked the authors all of them agreed on the above as the greatest movies of the post 90’s
5. We destroy any electrical device right after the guarantee expires in order to “see what’s inside”. Sigmund Freud would have say that this habit is inherited from our childhood. Probably he’d be right.
6. Even though all of the authors — including me — did obtain the Certificate of Advanced English issued by the Cambridge University, if you’d call us, you wouldn’t understand what are we babbling about. This because even though we write a lot in English, we neglect to actually talk. Not that our written English would be better…
   None of us have English as native tongue and we’re all Europeans
7. Neither of us maintain an active social profile. None of us publish the real names online, nor pictures about ourselves… but if you live in Europe, you probably saw all of us either in the news or in other media. That’s the internet guys; incognito rocks… even in Google Chrome

This was our summary; additionally, we would like to thank for our parents, staff and our fans that they supported us on getting through the 15 band freeway. All we want is worldwide peace, stop hunting the whales and stop cloning humans. I hope this is enough to get featured in the Miss Universe 2009.

OK, that was a side note; now we name seven other blogs which should post a similar article on their own blog… of course it’s not a must, but it would be nice… and they wouldn’t ruin the socialization of the web… nor our fun… so, the blogs; some big fishes, but since we follow their posts it would be really nice if they’d answer, so, worth a try:

• Darren Rowse from Problogger.net
• Matt Cutts from MattCutts.com
• Matt Mullenweg from Ma.tt
• Adam Lasnik from blAdam.com
• Kyle Eslick from WPHacks
• Jonny B. from Private Secret Diary
• and finally: Brian Clark from CopyBlogger

Note: maybe we intentionally posted these people because we’re 100% sure they won’t answer