Memes. Try as one might, there’s just no way to dodge them. Yet, there’s some­thing intrigu­ing about them and thanks to Jon Snook, I’m (yet again) par­tic­i­pat­ing in another meme, this one deal­ing with the past (which I’ve nick­named Soy Loco) and present (Muy Loco).

One Year Ago

Wow, answer­ing these are a bit more dif­fi­cult that I had orig­i­nally thought.

A year ago I was enrolled in Typog­ra­phy (I even inter­viewed fel­low 9ruler Robot Johnny for my final) and Mass Media. After the semes­ter was over, I found out my Mass Media pro­fes­sor — through serendip­i­tous means via a chance encounter at Barnes & Noble — was a fan of the Black Eyed Peas and used to tour with The Grate­ful Dead as a media producer.

My daugh­ter was only a year old and was just learn­ing how to walk, after mas­ter­ing the art of crawl­ing at a blaz­ingly fast pace. Think Peb­bles from The Flin­stones (whale spout and all), but with blonde hair.

As far as any spe­cific mile­stones for this site I gave away Flickr Pro invites, revis­ited my child­hood, pon­dered the rid­dle of retire­ment, dis­cussed food phases and grum­bled about Adobe and CS2.

Five Years Ago

As clear as day, I can remem­ber my wife and I were vis­it­ing my Aunt in Ari­zona when, in the mid­dle of edit­ing a tele­vi­sion com­mer­cial (more on that later), we received the call that my Uncle Steve had passed away. Years prior he was diag­nosed with Scle­ro­derma, a chronic autoim­mune con­nec­tive tis­sue dis­or­der. It was an extremely sad occurence con­sid­er­ing he was only 47 years old at the time and had plenty of life to live.

Not long after, I can remem­ber wak­ing up to the events of 9/11 and at the time wasn’t sure if what I was watch­ing on tele­vi­sion was real or not.

Ten Years Ago

Oh boy! At this time I was just a young pup barely start­ing his High School career, if you can call it that. Frankly, ten years seems like last week and yet very dis­tant, if that makes any sense.

Other than that, I do remem­ber Duke Nukem 3D (share­ware) was released out in the wild in addi­tion to Quake, Rent offi­cially opened on Broad­way and Dolly the Sheep was born, only to later pass on in Feb­ru­ary 2003.

Back to Now

Today I’m a father to two lovely mon­keys, Zoe (2 years old) and Quinn (Almost 3 months), con­tin­u­ing my aca­d­e­mic pur­sual of even­tual world dom­i­nance and still try­ing to learn how to play chess.

I’ll pass this on to Mike David­son, where memes go to die.