• A controller shaped like a guitar
• A selection of classic rock riffs
• A PS2
• Time Suck

Guitar Hero is a game sort of like Dance Dance Revolution, but instead of pads or a traditional controller you are holding a piece of plastic with 5 coloured buttons, a little lever for "strumming", and a whammy bar. You select a guitar player, a guitar, and a song and try to keep up with coloured dots that indicate what coloured button you should press while moving the little lever.

I just got tagged by my brother Alec in a game of blogger tag, via Jeff Pulver.

Many bloggers are known by their blogs. That "knowledge" might be wide, but tends to NOT be deep.

So the game works like this, publish five little known facts about yourself, and then tag five of your blogger pals to participate.

1) I worked in a beer and wine shop called Vintage Cellar. It was my first job after applying for a green card and the first job I could hold outside of my work with Virginia Tech. I walked in and just asked if they were hiring--and they were. Prior to working a Vintage Cellar I had dabbled with home-brewing (which is the reason they hired me). I learned a prodigious amount about wine from Randall. While working at Vintage Cellar, I became a Belgian Beer aficiando--which eventually helped my wife and I decide to take a trip to Belgium.