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Team Profile: Team C4

  • Your Name: Steve Sheldon
  • DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF BRAINS OR BRAWN? Both – You can say I am a Renaissance Man
  • The Best thing about your teammate: He likes to dress up as Darth Vader and Drink Beer.
  • Person you’d most like to meet and why: I guess I would really like to meet George Lucas and ask him “What was he thinking with the scripts for Star Wars 1, 2, 3 and Indy!”
  • Hobbies: Softball, Motorcycles, Water Skiing, Computers, and Playing Cards!
  • Occupation: Mr. Fix it. I answer people’s questions all day.
  • Favorite food/restaurant: Fogo de Chão (fo-go dèe shoun)! They have featured meats which are seasoned to perfection and slow-roasted over an open flame to capture their individual flavor. Pork Choppppp!
  • Favorite TV show: It is a toss up between the Stargate Series and Extreme home makeover.
  • Favorite movie moment: It’s a Wonderful Life – “Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.”
  • Favorite music/band: Van Halen – David Lee Roth era (1972-1985) and Sammy Hagar era (1985-1996)
  • Favorite store to shop at: Newegg.com and Walmart
  • What foreign countries have you visited? Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Caribbean, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Israel, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Australia, New Zealand, Bali, Thailand, Brazil, Argentina.
  • What’s the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done? Para glided off a mountain in Turkey.
  • Why did you decide to participate in The MINNEATHLON? Because I helped organized the first one made me want to run in this one.
  • DID YOU APPLY FOR MINNEATHLON 1.0? No
  • Do you regularly use public transportation? I did when I rented a place in South Minneapolis last winter. The light-rail is great.
  • Do you have any food allergies or restrictions? No.. but I am very fond of different cuts of meat.
  • Do you have any fears or phobias we should know about? No bring it on.
  • Anything else you think we should know? Nothing at the moment but I do like food.
  • Your Name: Dan Reichstadt
  • DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF BRAINS OR BRAWN? No
  • The Best thing about your teammate: Toss up between portability and attitude
  • Person you’d most like to meet and why: Darth Vader – because I like his management style
  • Hobbies: Hockey, Broomball, Softball
  • Occupation: DIT / Balloon Mime
  • Favorite food/restaurant: Anything off the smoker
  • Favorite TV show: Hogan’s Heroes
  • Favorite movie moment:

ADMIRAL OZZEL: LORD VADER, THE FLEET HAS MOVED OUT OF LIGHTSPEED, AND WE’RE PREPARING TO–[VADER STARTS CHOKING OZZEL USING THE FORCE]
DARTH VADER: YOU HAVE FAILED ME FOR THE LAST TIME, ADMIRAL. CAPTAIN PIETT.
CAPTAIN PIETT: YES, MY LORD.
DARTH VADER: MAKE READY TO LAND OUR TROOPS BEYOND THE ENERGY SHIELD AND DEPLOY THE FLEET SO THAT NOTHING GETS OFF THE SYSTEM. YOU ARE IN COMMAND NOW, ADMIRAL PIETT.
[OZZEL FALLS DOWN, DEAD]
ADMIRAL PIETT: THANK YOU, LORD VADER.

  • Favorite music/band: Metallica
  • Favorite store to shop at: Fleet Farm
  • What foreign countries have you visited?  Mexico, Canada Cayman Islands, Kansas City
  • What’s the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done? Canoeing rivers in outback Alaska
  • Why did you decide to participate in The MINNEATHLON? It is my destiny
  • DID YOU APPLY FOR MINNEATHLON 1.0? No
  • Do you regularly use public transportation?  No
  • Do you have any food allergies or restrictions?  Deathly allergic to celery
  • Do you have any fears or phobias we should know about? No
  • Anything else you think we should know? VERY WELL, WHERE DO I BEGIN? MY FATHER WAS A RELENTLESSLY SELF-IMPROVING BOULANGERIE OWNER FROM BELGIUM WITH LOW-GRADE NARCOLEPSY AND A PENCHANT FOR BUGGERY. MY MOTHER WAS A 15-YEAR-OLD FRENCH PROSTITUTE NAMED CHLOE WITH WEBBED FEET. MY FATHER WOULD WOMANIZE; HE WOULD DRINK. HE WOULD MAKE OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS LIKE HE INVENTED THE QUESTION MARK. SOMETIMES, HE WOULD ACCUSE CHESTNUTS OF BEING LAZY. THE SORT OF GENERAL MALAISE THAT ONLY THE GENIUS POSSESS AND THE INSANE LAMENT… MY CHILDHOOD WAS TYPICAL: SUMMERS IN RANGOON… LUGE LESSONS… IN THE SPRING, WE’D MAKE MEAT HELMETS… WHEN I WAS INSOLENT I WAS PLACED IN A BURLAP BAG AND BEATEN WITH REEDS – PRETTY STANDARD, REALLY. AT THE AGE OF 12, I RECEIVED MY FIRST SCRIBE. WHEN I WAS 18 I WENT TO EVIL MEDICAL SCHOOL. AT AGE 25 I TOOK UP TAP DANCING. I WANTED TO BE A QUADRUPLE THREAT: AN ACTOR, DANCER….
    OH, AND I HAVE THESE TWO DOGS AND SOMETIMES THEY COME TO WORK WITH ME.

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