Who You Calling A Jesse?

Gary Barber, a friend I have only met through Twitter and another friend down in Australia, has passed along a nice “8 things you didn’t know about me” meme. Figure I should oblige…

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. List EIGHT random facts about yourself.
3. Tag EIGHT people at the end of your post and list their names.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

1. I have been a member (on and off) of the Canadian Ski Patrol since 1992 and was one of the first snowboarders to snowboard will on patrol. At the time no one knew what to do with snowboarders, my patrol leader didn’t mind.
2. On my 19th birthday I sat in a canoe on the snow with a draft ball (a northern Ontario thing – its a ball filled with beer).
3. I have a sister that is 13 years younger than me (same parents), mental age is a bit closer.
4. I lived in Dundas, Thunder Bay, and Sault Ste Marie (the Soo) growing up only to settle in Waterloo (all in Ontario). All in the same Province but 1491km to go to Thunder Bay from here, one way. The ‘Soo’ is what I call home.
5. My first job was driving a Dickie Dee ice cream bike, I was 14
6. To this day my favourite food is the original JuJubes from Dare.
7. I always wanted to be a marine biologist, studied Geography, coded until recently, and now work on user experience stuff. Still not sure what I want to be when I grow up.
8. My dream is to spend my life fishing and hunting away from cities, electricity, and bad drivers.

So who am I going to tag? Not sure I know 8 eight people that might respond but ah well. I will try and pick on folks in the Waterloo area ;)

1. Simon Woodside – Simon and I instigate the BarCamp’s around here
2. Gary Will – I have only met him relatively recently, seems like a good guy ;)
3. Larry Borsato – a general pain, Larry has coded more things in more places than I care to know but I am sure he has an interesting story.
4. Ali Asaria – The guy behind Well.ca
5. Norman Young – it has been a while since he has posted anything… maybe now he will.
6. Brydon Gilliss – A DemoCamp organizer from Guelph
7. Mic Berman – maybe she will have time between Mozilla and local startups
8. Jim Murphy – the ex-pat that has returned to the area, what is his story anyway?

Wow… 8 local bloggers. That’s it, so says the rules.