What Is A Meme You Ask? Meme Me Up Mary

I'll admit that I had no idea what a Meme was until I was "memed" this morning by REBlogGirl.
Meme has been described as the following:

• “A unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to the other. (not so clear)”
• “It’s a thought-stream carried from one person to another” (hmmm)
• “Virtual blogging game of tag” (warm)
• “The blogging equivalent of a chain letter” (warmer)
• “A good excuse to spread a blogging topic around” (hot)

The thought-stream that I was tagged with is “5 Things That You Don’t Know About Me.” 

So here goes:

1.  I was raised on the geek side of the tracks; my parents sent me to Computer Camp at age 12.  Way back then (1982) we were learning to code in Basic, Pilot and Pascal.  Oddly enough, all I retained from my experience was how to juggle.

2.  On occasion I can still solve the Rubik’s Cube in under 1 minute.

3.  I am bilingual.  After majoring in Spanish in college, I lived in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Chile.

4.  I am banned from entering the country of Cuba.  I spent nearly a year helping convince Cuban baseball super-star, Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez to defect from Cuba to play in the Major Leagues.  It’s true, and you can read about it in the book about his life: The Duke of Havana.  The same year he defected (Christmas 1997), he went on to not only win the World Series with the (damn) Yankees, but was also selected as the MVP. 

5.  I have always been and always will be a Boston Red Sox fan. 

This chain can be tracked, and I encourage you to learn more about the community that has just been brought to my attention.
It kind of feels a bit like “6 degrees of separation”

Drew of Drew’s Marketing Minute
Starbucker
Trevor Gay of Simplicity
Phil of Make it Great
Kammie of Passion Meet’s Purpose
Success from the Nest
Dave of Rothacker Reviews
Andrea Learned of Learned on Women
Ann Handley of the Marketing Profs Daily Fix
Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change
Toby Bloomberg, the Diva Marketer
Paul Chaney, Strategic Blogging
Mark McKnight, RSS Pieces

In the spirit of the meme, I will be spreading this blogging topic around by tagging: Greg Swann from BloodhoundBlog, Gena Riede of Sacramento Real Estate Voice and Joseph Ferrara of SellsiusBlog

 

Comments

[REBlogGirl]

It all makes sense now, you've been causing trouble since the dawn of time. But, Dude, you totally missed my favorite fact about you. Pretty please tell them all about your soccer connection to 80's pop stars New Kids On The Block.

[Jim Cronin]

I thought that this was supposed to be stuff that you didn't know about me... :)

[Derek Burress]

Darn, I was hoping you would tag me. :-)

IS #4 really true? You have to email me about that one. Seems like we share a love of baseball. Baseball and real estate; now if we could just figure out a way to combine the two topics that may make for an interesting blog article.

[Phil Gerbyshak]

Ah, the Rubik's cube. VERY fun! Under 1 minute is amazingly fast. And you helped El Duque get to the states? The Yanks winning had to KILL you. Whoa!

[CJ]

Nobody tagged me, but life is like that. I'll play anyway: http://www.nelalive.net/nelalive/2006/12/meme_schmeme.html

[Maureen Francis]

Fun! Check your link to Gena, Jim.

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[Terry Starbucker]

Thanks for the link! Great story about El Duque - small world, I have a baseball autographed by him at my office. Now I know, as Paul Harvey says, "the rest of the story"! All the best and Happy Holidays.

[Derek Burress]

Trackback is messed up again I think.

Either way, I made a story out of you, Mary, Greg and Cheryl. I thought it was funny so I hope you guys like it.

http://derekburress.com/meme-the-virus-of-the-mind-spreads-rapidly-through-the-real-estate-blogging-community/

[Gena Riede]

Ok, I'm here...got tagged everywhere...Jim, as if we didn't already know that you were a computer geek!!!! Please... being banned from CUBA-now that's some serious stuff and such the guy ONE MINUTE with the rubic's cube=genius. Don't start talking to me in Spanish, now!

[Deborah Ryman]

I like a good rebel. Nice work with the Cuban government!