About Rick

Name: Rick Jessup
Occupation: Digital Strategy and Account Management, 58Ninety

100 Things You Don’t Know (in progress)

  1. I love caffeine in all states, shapes, sizes, and quantities.
  2. I wear glasses, but only for driving and watching TV.
  3. I can dislocate both shoulders on request. But I don’t anymore.
  4. This ability to dislocate was responsible for a shoulder separation in 2002.
  5. I have the uncanny ability to stick metal objects, such as coins, to my head.
  6. I was in the video for “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead” by Crash Test Dummies.
  7. I was in the video for “King of Spain” by Moxy Fruvous.
  8. I am somewhat adept at cooking thanks to Bobby Flay, Stephen Yan, and Jeff Stoddart.
  9. I started losing my hair extensively at 23. This does not run in the family.
  10. Turns out it does run in the family. Just the side of the family I hadn’t seen in 10 years.
  11. I sing, play guitar, and play harmonica. I do none of this really well. But I do it.
  12. My first full time job was stocking feminine hygiene products, baby foods, and diapers.
  13. Both my big toes are broken.
  14. I have a broken rib on the bottom of my rib cage under my heart.
  15. I’ve added a fracture on the top of my left foot.
  16. The tendon in my left wrist is permanently damaged due to a workplace accident.
  17. I have a scar under my eye from running into a picnic table as a child.
  18. I have a scar on the knuckle of my left index finger from a soda bottle explosion.
  19. I’ve cut my finger tip off in the kitchen. Three times.
  20. Once led my softball team in home runs without once hitting a ball over the fence.
  21. Completed one year of University and left voluntarily. I do not regret this.
  22. I once recorded a solo version of “There Is No God” by Extreme in a studio.
  23. I don’t own a copy of this recording after sending my only DAT to the organizers.
  24. I have wrestled in a wrestling ring. It’s nowhere near as fake as you think.
  25. I had one earring  and plans for more. Now I have none and no plans for more.
  26. I knew my wife for seven years before we had our first date.
  27. Once impaled my finger on the arm of a G.I. Joe figure.
  28. My first item of music ownership was Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on vinyl.
  29. My good friend Craig met his wife Cheryl after I met an online friend, Bethany, for dinner and we each brought a friend to feel more comfortable. Our friends ended up getting married.
  30. I’ve seen Hour of Power live in Garden Grove, California.
  31. One of my previous jobs was an NHL prognosticator.
  32. I did this well, posting 70%+ accuracy.
  33. I once went on a streak of over 60 days without a daily guarantee wrong.
  34. I’ve been on eight cruises, all but one to the Caribbean. The other was to Bermuda.
  35. I’ve suffered from migraines since birth. I’m used to them.
  36. Apparently my eyes turn bright blue right before I get one.
  37. I was part of a team that won a Marketing RSVP Gold Award.
  38. I left the world of big business because the politics suck. Then I went back. Go figure.
  39. While I love interactive and digital my passion is cooking and music.
  40. At the age of 8 I became hooked on ‘Wok With Yan’ and asked for a wok for Christmas.
  41. I got it. I had it until recently when it rusted out on me. Sad.
  42. Cooking turned from hobby to passion after reading an article on Emeril Lagasse.
  43. That lead to Iron Chef, which lead to Bobby Flay.
  44. No, I don’t care that he stood on the cutting board.
  45. I devoted myself to learning southwestern and spanish cooking.
  46. I’ve eaten at Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill in New York City and Las Vegas.
  47. I’ve eaten at Emeril’s Emeril’s Fish House in Las Vegas.
  48. I’ve eaten at Wolfang Puck’s Postrio in Las Vegas.
  49. I’ve eaten at Rob Feenie’s Feenie’s in Vancouver.
  50. I’ve eaten at Susur Lee’s Lee in Toronto.
  51. I’ve been to England, New Zealand, France, Sweden, Mexico, the Virgin Islands, and all over Canada and the USA.
  52. While in New Zealand I took a helicopter ride through the rainforest, a gondola ride over 1,000m in the air, and rode a cement luge 750m down a mountain.
  53. I’m right-handed, but my right hand curls like a lefty.
  54. I play hockey left, baseball left (but throw right), and golf from both sides.
  55. Since topping out at over 240 lbs in 2002 I’ve lost over 70 lbs, and kept it off.
  56. At age 17 I could pitch a 94mph fastball, sinker, curveball and “reverse curveball”.
  57. A “reverse curveball” is better known now as a gyroball. That’s right, I did it first.
  58. In a single practice throw I tore my bicep sheath and ended my pitching career.
  59. I started blogging in 1995 using DOS edit to post a “Thought of the Week”.