Memed

24 February 2008

I am currently undecided on the value of the internet meme. Most are painfully unfunny (assuming they are trying to be funny) or at the very least only the funny the first time you see them, not the 321st time. I can has cheezburger I’m looking in your direction.

Some I just plain old don’t get; Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle – what is going on here? Seriously, is this just odd for the sake of odd or have a missed out on some big cultural thing.

I quite like it though.

On a similar thread is the sub-genre of ‘blog post memes’, which generally take the form of a list of questions the author responds to, revealing a little bit more about them then you might normally get from a more serious post. And of course, they take no effort to write.

You can see what’s coming, can’t you?

Questions stolen from here:

A) Four jobs I have had in my life (other than current job):
Mac software developer, video games sales assistant, mobile phone software tester and freelance web developer (I’m not really freelance now. Much.).

B.) Four movies I would watch over and over:
2001, Pulp Fiction, A New Hope and Children of Men (maybe – this one was a bit hard. Too many films…).

C.) Four places I have lived
Reading, Surbiton, Kingston and now Islington.

D.) Four TV shows that I watch
The Wire (Best. Show. Ever.), Lost, Skins and ANTM.

E.) Four places I have been:
New York, Paris, Rome and San Francisco.

F.) People who e-mail me (regularly):
My blog (with mostly spam comments…), James, Jane and Simon (which really won’t mean much to anyone reading this. Oh well.).

G.) Four of my favourite foods:
Cheese, mushrooms, almost anything containing cheese and mushrooms, a good steak.

H. ) Four places I would rather be right now:
A beach (anywhere hot), New York, Paris and Tokyo.

J.) Four things I am looking forward to this year:
Reading Festival, Concrete and Glass Festival, Holiday #1 and Holiday #2.

K.) Four favourite authors:
Douglas Coupland, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Larry Niven (yes, I read boy books).

L.) Four favourite records (bonus question!):
Nevermind by Nirvana, Kid A by Radiohead, The White Stripes by The White Stripes and Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In.

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24 February 2008