Meme of Four

Okay, this game is called the meme of four. Try it yourself, and pass it along. I have discovered that four is not enough for some categories, too many for others.

Four Jobs You’ve Had

1. Potato-truck driver
2. Oil rig derrickman
3. Statistical demographer
4. Learning products engineer

Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over

1. O Lucky Man!
2. Raising Arizona
3. Wings of Desire
4. The Producers (the original, 1968)

Four Places You’ve Lived

1. Sitka, Alaska
2. Long Beach, New York
3. Washington, DC
4. Yoyogi, Tokyo, Japan

Four TV Shows You Love to Watch

1. ("Love" is a bit too strong for anything on the boob tube, but I can think of three I like a lot.)
2. The Daily Show
3. Six Feet Under (yes, it's over, alas)
4. A close NBA basketball game

Four Places You’ve Been on Vacation

1. Elazig, Turkey
2. St Cyprien, France
3. Sanur, Bali, Indonesia
4. Mendocino, California

Four Blogs You Visit Daily

1. Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
2. MaxSpeak, You Listen!
3. Michael Bérubé Online
4. TomDispatch

Four of Your Favorite Foods

1. Nigiri sushi
2. Lamb kebab
3. Anchovies
4. Bittersweet chocolate

Four Places You’d Rather Be

1. (Nowhere other than Berkeley, really, but here are three that come close.)
2. The Dordogne, France
3. London
4. Boulder, Colorado

Four Albums You Can’t Live Without

1. Beethoven's late quartets
2. Stravinsky's Rake's Progress
3. Bach's St Matthew Passion
   
4. Blind Boys of Alabama, "Spirit of the Century"

Four Vehicles You’ve Owned

1. Schwinn Varsity (first 10-speed "racing" bicycle built in the US)
2. Triumph Vitesse sedan
3. Peugeot 403
4. Datsun 510

And the tag goes on: to four more bloggers, Max Sawicky, Laura Rozen, Sean Carroll, and PZ Myers. Let me suggest, dear reader, that you check out the astute and thoughtful things these four have to say nearly every day.

And play the game yourself, why don't you?

Comments

[Sean]

Hey, I just did a similar meme earlier today! And I'm exhausted. Maybe you could poke one of my co-bloggers? (Although I appreciate the compliment, thanks.)

[Robert Silvey]

Thanks, Sean. I hadn't seen your Sunday post. Nice explanation of a meme, too: "For the less blogocentric among our readers, it’s the internet hybrid of a chain letter and a personal ad — you’re supposed to answer a set of questions and then send it along to other people."

Clifford Johnson is another of the excellent writing physicists on Cosmic Variance. He's now running a contest for "The Greatest Physics Paper!" ever written. Clifford also writes about LA public transportation and rides a Brompton, the greatest folding bicycle ever manufactured. I picked up my Brompton in London in 1992 for a train commute to Wokingham, and it's still rolling around Berkeley and folding up tight and yare. Your go, Clifford!

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Meme of Four

[Robert Silvey]

PZ Myers, he of the rock-solid Pharyngula, did a wonderfully crotchety take on this meme, saying that while four is better than seven, "I'm hoping the next one will be Zero." He then proceeded to create his own meme of zero, consisting of a large blank space, followed by:

The rules:
1. Say nothing about yourself.
2. Nominate no one else to do it.

If you click on the "Zero" title, you get a blank browser. Most amusing, though I'm glad PZ took the time to do the meme of four first; something about himself was just what I was hoping for, including the fact that at vacation time he is always drawn to the beautiful Olympic Peninsula.

Here's another suggestion for where the meme of zero might start:

The Meme of Zero

By the way, Pharyngula has moved to a new site, together with several other interesting science blogs, called (yes) ScienceBlogs.