{"id":51,"date":"2007-01-05T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systematic.hrblogs.org\/2007\/01\/05\/about-meme\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:37:18","slug":"about-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"About Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/systematichr.com\/\" title=\"systematicHR\">Dubs<\/a> tagged me, so here&#8217;s 5 things you don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In a field crowded with HR cyclists, I&#8217;m another. A long time ago, after many years as a customer I was invited to be a guest leader with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbt.com\/\" title=\"VBT\">Vermont Bicycle Touring<\/a>. For a few seasons I got pay plus tips to spend a week on inn-to-inn tours during autumn foliage, riding half days and driving the sag wagon the other half. Nearly left my day job.<\/li>\n<li>My degree is in Commercial Art, from the pre-PC era. I was an Art Director for almost 20 years. I specialized in large catalog production and got involved in online commerce (on Compuserve, showing my age again) in the late &#8217;80s. By the time the web got popular I was spending as much time with systems as designing. I made the formal transfer to development management in 1998.<\/li>\n<li>I learned to code on a Univac 1108 in 1973. Punch cards, paper tape, Teletypes with acoustic coupler modems and no displays. <\/li>\n<li>New York City is my favorite place.<\/li>\n<li>Late in the last century I swore that I&#8217;d never work on PeopleSoft systems again. And yet&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tag <a href=\"http:\/\/mushsports.com\/\" title=\"MushSports\">brazenindustriousness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/romulusbalazs.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"The Social Revolution Blog\">Romulus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/manalang.com\/\" title=\"manalang.com\">Rich<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubs tagged me, so here&#8217;s 5 things you don&#8217;t know: In a field crowded with HR cyclists, I&#8217;m another. A long time ago, after many years as a customer I was invited to be a guest leader with Vermont Bicycle Touring. For a few seasons I got pay plus tips to spend a week on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-systematic-viewpoints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}