Huffman Coding

I was tagged in a Facebook note by friend. I’m responding here:

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

1. I have 3 beautiful, but very different, daughters.
2. I was born to be a dad; fatherhood is so cool.
3. I am an avid (albeit warm weather) road cyclist.
4. I live for the annual Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure.
5. My wife is balking at my desire to get a third (fixed gear) bike.
6. I am a software engineer and first wanted to be one when I was 13.
7. I play the piano.
8. I once skydived.
9. I cannot smell.
10. I cannot see magic-eye images either.
11. I don’t have cable TV.
12. I still like to do Sudoku even though that is so yesterday.
13. My favorite color was blue when I was young, then it was green and now it’s burgundy.
14. I like amber beer, but I like both wine and Coke Zero better. None of which I drink very often.
15. I gave up on Anathem after only 300 pages.
16. I plan to drink the Apple kool-aid this year and get a MacBook Pro and iPhone.
17. I have no idea how to get my oldest daughter to eat veggies.
18. I have no idea how to get my middle daughter to stop apologizing for everything.
19. I have no idea how to get my youngest daughter to use her inside voice.
20. Off-white is not a good carpet color when you have a cat that throws up regularly.
21. My last bowling score was lower than my last golf round (pathetically for just 9 holes).
22. I always won the arguments with my first wife which is probably why I’m married to my second.
23. My wife does not read my blog or twitterings.
24. I like Facebook for status updates, but find the application requests from others cumbersome.
25. I hate obligating others to do this so tag yourself (if you want) and link to your entry the comments to this post.