Meme-tagged..TWICE..Better Hurry......

I'm sorry people but I LOVE this stuff!! If you have not already (and shame on you if you haven't) you MUST read Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay, As We May Think. Read about the associative power of the trails that we leave and we share..as he says..it is awe-inspiring. Finally, if you do read that essay and ask 'what does all this have to do with my industry' - then stop - turn off the computer and go somewhere far away.

That being said.....thanks to both Wendy Wickham and Tony Karrer for tagging me with the Five Meme post that appears to have started somewhere back past the Purple Wren and Passion Meets Purpose. Honest to goodness people..I am going to have to break out MindManager and map this puppy out!

The idea of course is to tell people 5 things that they probably don't know about you and then tag 5 more people to do the same. I love knowing that if we ever have an edublogger beach volleyball tournament - Tony K is on my team! I can't believe that Wendy W used to work at Stone Mountain - my mother-in-law live about 3 miles away from there - and I've seen that laser show waaayyy too many times. I can't believe that now because of Karyn, I can say that I kind of know someone who knows how to speak even a little Zulu. Zulu...wow. I also think that Harold would still probably make a passable Frosty the Snowman but that I think he protests a bit too much about not harboring a secret love of armadillos (I'm going to start a new del.icio.us tag... jarche_armadillo). So enough about other people, what about me?

1. I've been married for 16 years and love my wife Greta (pronounced Greeta) and my 7 year old son Max very much.

2. I actually began this blog as an email newsletter that circulated within the Pentagon.

3. My favorite movie of all time is Highlander..or maybe Big Trouble in Little China...or maybe Office Space..or it could be Ocean's 11 (the remake)..or Full Metal Jacket..or the first Star Wars (A New Hope)..or the Day the Earth Stood Still but I'm pretty sure its one of those.

4. I was part of the team that did an archaeological survey of over 5,000 acres of the U.S. Army's Ft. Benning in Columbus, GA and we helped re-locate the twin capitals of the Lower Creek Indian Nation.

5. I have actually published a paper on PEZ in a peer-reviewed academic journal

So enough about me, who am I tagging?
Tom Crawford - You may know Tom from Root Learning or the Masie Center but Tom has started blogging and is already a force
Ron  Edwards - my mobile learning expert brother from across the Pond
Karl Kapp - my partner in our ongoing debate about who should fix ISD
Lee Kraus - Keep the faith with Learning Flow!!
Christopher Sessums - A guy I've never met but someone I read daily and with whom I've swapped some notes and who should be congratulated for winning the 2006 EduBlogger Award for Best Individual Blog.

Comments

[Karl Kapp]

Mark,

Thanks, I was tagged a little before you tagged me but did leave a meme called, "Wake Up Karl, The Meme Has You" over on Kapp Notes. DISCLAIMER Any resemblance to any well known lines from any cult movies is simply accidental..:)

[mark oehlert]

Harold - I think we could actually see a "Jarche+Armadillo 2.0 Bubble"! We'd better watch the hype.

Karyn - I just love that sentence fragment "I was raised by a series of Zulu nannies..." - seems like the start of a great book...

..and I must tell you that lot of the days that I worked there it got to me that it was the PENTAGON but a lot of the other days, it was the big office building I worked in.

[Harold Jarche]

and I thought that this meme might die a natural death, but no such luck:
http://del.icio.us/jarche/jarche_armadillo

[Karyn Romeis]

Thanks for playing along. It seems strange to me that you should pick up on the Zulu thing. I was raised by a series of Zulu nannies, which is very common for people of my age in South Africa. It is the most commonly spoken first language in that country. Just yesterday I encountered a family of Zulu speaking people... on the tube in London.

On the flip side, there's me reading your 5 facts and going: Wow, the Pentagon. Just goes to prove what I have said to Graham Wenger: one man's exotic is another man's ho hum (mind you, I don't think anyone would find your Pentagon point ho hum).