I was meme tagged by Pat Kitano of Transparent RE.com. A meme [mem ] is described by the American Cultural Dictionary as “A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another .”

Huh?  Well consider it sort of a virtual party game.  And this particular meme has instructions: tell five things about yourself that readers might not know, and pass the infection along by tagging five other Bloggers. 

So for your reading enjoyment, five things that you probably didn’t know about me: 

1.  I was a computer nerd early on, starting out with a TRS 80 and a Commodore Vic 20 (with tape drive!) when I was in middle school.  If you look at this photo and get a warm wave of nostalgia then you and I would get along. 

2.  I was an All American boxer in college and made it to the collegiate national championships in Reno Nevada my senior year.  I lost my final bout (my only bout that was televised) - a split decision loss to a hometown boy from UNR.  He was a south paw.  So now I have this thing about lefties...

3.  I lived in Bogotá Colombia for three years working for an oil company.  Best place I've ever lived.

4.  I have a cat that I adopted for $2 at a shelter in Bogotá and it cost me $300 to bring her back to the US when I moved back.  Well actually it cost the company that I was working for because I was able to expense it. 

5.  My favorite vice is Maggie Moo's cotton candy flavored ice cream, which comes in a industrial chemical shade of blue and stains your teeth, lips, and anything else it comes into contact with.  My wife thinks it is disgusting. 

So I’m tagging:  Jeremy Bencken at TenantMarket.com, Derrick Daye at Branding Strategy Insider, and fellow Houstonian Micahel Price of MLPodcast.com.  Those of you who are paying attention will notice that this is just three, not five.  But Pat, who passed this on to me, only tagged three – so I’m doing the same. 

And my inner geek thinks the following is pretty cool: tracking this particular meme back 17 generations:

• 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
• Mary McKnight of RSSPieces
• Jim Cronin of Real Estate Tomato
• Joseph Ferrara  of Selsiusblog 
• Teresa Boardman  of St. Paul Real Estate
• Pat Kitano of Transparent Real Estate