The registration form for a privacy-law conference I’m going to in late spring asked not just for the usual contact information but also for a biography. I figure they’ll understand if I just leave that one blank. They’re privacy scholars, after all.
Or provide something nice and colorful: “Born in a log cabin twenty miles from the nearest settlement, James enlisted in the Army at 16 and quickly made a name for himself as a cavalry commander during the Mexican-American war…”
“But after a legendarily vicious wrestling match with General Santa Anna’s personal Kodiak bear — forever afterward known as ‘The Gelding’ — James retreated to his country manor on the Canadian border, where he lived quietly until the shocking events of 1854 changed his life, and his left fist, forever.”
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“The events of 1854, however, had nothing on what was to transpire a mere three years later, when James was drafted as a mercenary by the Indian Sepoys, and went off to fight in the Indian Mutiny, where he proceeded to slay Redcoats by the dozen before being smitten by a dusky, dark-eyed Indian princess, and settled down to a quiet life of philosophical contemplation by the banks of the river Ganges, where he penned his epic, ‘War and Law: A Marriage of Convenience’”.