marketing in traffic by brian branca

Meme.  Such a funny word (rhymes with seem).  Do you know what it is?  Wikipedia defines meme as a unit or element of cultural ideas, symbols or practices that transmit from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomenon. The term is derived from the Greek word mimema for mimic.  Memes are cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate and are subject to selective pressures.

Yesterday I was tagged by Indra Gardiner on a meme making its way through the interwebs that asks you to post seven things about yourself that others might not know.  So, without further ado, here are mine.

1. I am either graciously patient or horrendously impatient.  There is no in-between.
2. Back when Return of the Jedi was HUGE, EVERYONE wore something related to Star Wars for Halloween.  Girls were mostly Princess Leia & boys were either Luke Skywalker or Han Solo.  I was Admiral FREAKING Ackbar.  Worst. Costume. Ever.  I guess I’m just glad I wasn’t an Ewok. This image should be centered…stupid WordPress.



3. If I had to do the whole education & career path thing over again, I would have gotten into astrophysics.  When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronomer & aced physics in high school.  Nowadays I spend a lot of time watching things like The Universe.  If you want to know what happened, refer to number one; the thought of all that schooling kinda freaked me out back in the day.
4. Sometimes I wish I just did things rather than over-thinking things.
5. I want to learn to play the piano…like Elton John, or Alicia Keys, or Mike Oldfield…honestly, I’d take Axl Rose or Chris Martin’s skills at this point.
6. There are times when I look up to my two brothers (who are six & eight years younger than me).
7. I was probably the only kid who ever wanted braces.  Yeah, I got them in my late twenties & provided a ton of entertainment for friends throughout the two years they were glued to my teeth.

Part of this meme is to tag seven other people; here is my list of people’s memes I’d like to read.  I’m tagging however many I choose & you probably can, too.  Who said seven was the key number here anyway?

• Jen Miller
• Matt McDonald
• John Crandall
• Michael Leis
• Annie Heckenberger
• Patrick Tigue
• Valeria Maltoni
• Andrew Ervin

Here are the rules…

• Link your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged.