Hit by a blog meme

A blog meme has just landed on my head, like a deposit from a flu infected migratory bird (affirmative answer to the question, "Do you have any grey poop on?"). It got dumped on me by my Flu Wiki partner, Melanie Mattson, maestra of the acclaimed Just a Bump in the Beltway blog. I tagged her about two months ago and this is payback. If you don't know, a blog meme is a task set by one blogger on one or more others, to proceed chain fashion until everyone is exhausted or bored or both.

This one should have been easy: set down eight random things about yourself. But it's a bit harder if there are more than one of you. Here are four different answers, divided by different Paul Revere identities.

1. I am a proficient copper engraver

2. I was born on New Year's Day (1735). I guess I could add that I'm dead, but that would be three things, and it's sort of a depressing characteristic

3. I am also a rock band, very popular in the 1960s (see next random fact)

4. My band, Paul Revere and the Raiders, started out in Boise, Idaho

5. I am the name of a Pizza Franchise, Paul Revere's Pizza International, Ltd.

6. The "international" part is indeed Limited as there are only franchises in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin

7. I am the pseudonym of one or more bloggers at this site

8. The Reveres at Effect Measure are actually just mechanisms for turning coffee into blog posts (apologies to P. Erdös)

I'm not tagging anyone this time. Enough people hate me.