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[LazyWaffle]

Pretty self explanatory. Just post your greatest accomplishment. Mine was probably learning how to walk the dog with a yo-yo. My life was complete that day. And then my yo-yo broke.

[Skofo]

I once dropped a bar of soap and caught it in mid-air.

[BinaryMind]

I had a job once...

I have a feeling this will be a harrowing thread. 

[allen]

I once dropped a bar of soap and caught it in mid-air.

not as impressive as knocking a beer bottle off a table and catching it before it falls off and spills everywhere

[inkBot]

I rolled three consecutive natural 20's one gaming session. I was the GM...

I built an enormous 'thing' out of a bunch of chairs over the course of a few months (adding one chair each time I left the room). I think it was about 15-20 chairs mangled together in one large blob, and all balanced on one chair at the bottom. Couldn't take a picture of it though

[William Broom]

One time on school camp we had to do this poetry/performance competition, where we had one hour to prepare and a list of 100 words that we had to use in our poem. I ended up writing most of the words for our group and speaking it as well. It was a very silly nonsense poem, kind of like a parody of T.S. Eliot, and after I saw the other peoples' performances I thought we would be a complete bomb. But when we went up and did it, everybody loved it and we won the competition.

Maybe that says something about me, that my greatest achievement was not a tangible accomplishment (the poem was pretty shitty) but gaining the admiration of my peers for a brief moment. But fuck that, it felt great.

[Mr. K]

I built a computer case. Out of Legos.

[mixzed]

first time my father and I ever worked on my car. We ended up with a ton of random engine parts all over the driveway. I looked at him wondering if we just ruined my car but he just says "no problem" and a few hours and beers/root beers later the car is sounding better than it ever was.

thanks dad I'll miss ya

[William Laub]

Starting with a really boring project (cargo hold loading a.k.a knapsack problem), my friend and I made finals in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge and ended up taking out project to the International Science and Engineering Fair. The best part was that we didn't even really have any results. We just talked about the way we tried to solved the problem with enough enthusiasm that no one noticed that we hadn't solved anything "yet."

[Shade Jackrabbit]

I ran an entire D&D campaign with a changing group of 4-7 players over the course of a school year. It was epic, they started at level 3, and they ended at level 17. They killed demigods.

[sugarbeard]

I put a tie on this morning, and tied it right on the first try! High five! 

[brog]

I ran an entire D&D campaign with a changing group of 4-7 players over the course of a school year. It was epic, they started at level 3, and they ended at level 17. They killed demigods.

That's a darn impressive achievement.  It's not easy to hold a game together on a regular basis.

Me, hm.  I managed to get legally banned from entering the grounds of my old high school.

[handCraftedRadio]

One time, when I was running for the school bus, I jumped over a fire hydrant and a fireman gave me a high-five.

[DavidN]

That lego computer case is wonderful

I have leapt off an eight-metre telegraph pole and lived to tell the tale (as part of an outdoor activity day that I was taking some first-years on in school).

[jrjellybeans]

Me, hm.  I managed to get legally banned from entering the grounds of my old high school.

Eh?

In any case, I would say that finishing our first game was mine.  It took me about 4 years to release something for people to actually see (even if the product is no good).