Death of a Meme

I've been tagged by Anna Kushnir at Sunday Night Dinner to spread the following meme (a type of cultural gene, proposed by Richard Dawkins, in case your were wondering):

Here are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names, linking to them.
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

So, here are five facts about myself:
1) During my senior year at Stanford I took red-eye flights to and from San Diego to see Tool live in concert. The concert was in the evening and I spent the whole day in the UCSD library working on a computer science assignment that was due later that week. The concert itself was amazing beyond words. Afterwards, I took the wrong bus, ended up walking for several miles in the middle of the night, before struggling to catch a few hours of sleep in the most uncomfortable airport chairs ever. It was totally worth it.
2) I joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity during the fall of my junior year (better late than never), which ended up being one of the best decisions that I made in college. I learned so much from my brothers: ranging from making a Black Russian to solving for Clebsch-Gordon coefficients.
3) In a parallel universe, I am probably working at National Instruments. In addition to the Tool concert, another highlight of my senior year was flying to Austin, Texas for one an interview with one of Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For. I loved the work environment at their headquarters, but my performance in front of the judges was less than stellar, resulting in a rejection. On top of that, I got violently ill with food poisoning that night and had to delay my return to Stanford by two days.
4) Unlike Anna, I do watch TV (or, more accurately, I do when I'm not in a university-setting). I am a huge fan of Boston Legal (Alan Shore is one of my heroes) and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
5) One of my current life goals is to live the laboratory equivalent of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (with less profanity).

The morbid title for this post comes from the fact that I don't have five other fellow bloggers to tag for the next generation of this virus of the mind. However, if you are reading this and have a blog, please let me know so that we can breath new life into this cyberspace life form.

Comments

[john]

good ol' c-g coefficients...

[Anna]

I love #5. That's brilliant. I am afraid that researchers would be even more hesitant to take advice than restaurant owners are. Have you noticed that half the time on that show the owner goes back to his or her filthy and ridiculous ways after filming wraps? People are so set in their ways.

[Naveen Sinha]

John, have you used C-G coefficients at all since Stanford?

Anna, I'm glad that you like the idea, although I thought that you didn't watch TV.