who are all these weird people?

[topaz]

This one is growing on me:

Go to my userinfo page and choose someone from my friends list. Post their username in a comment and I'll tell you what I know about them, or how I came to know them.

Comments

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

sweetmmeblue

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes... sweetmmeblue, the spouse of that Dr. Wex fellow so many of you know from suspects, and the mother of two awfully cute kids. She's recently resumed her coursework, at herculean effort given her family's schedule, and is pursuing (uh-oh, watch me get it wrong) an MSW from BU.

I'm pretty sure I met Ms. Blue at one of those disreputable parties at Arisia, around 2000 or 2001. Their infant, who they had brought to the con, was having some gas and was extremely cranky and resistant to going to sleep. I overheard Blue and Wex discussing whether they had any simethicone on hand. We still kept a bottle of simethicone in our baby bag even though Morgan no longer really needed it, so I went down to our room and retrieved it for them. And once you've shared baby supplies in an emergency, that's a bond that's never broken, man.

[(Anonymous)]

Although that episode did occur, I believe we met you earlier than that, at a Homeport gathering.

"that Dr. Wex fellow"

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

boutell

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

boutell! I knew boutell slightly from the net, second-hand from talk.bizarre (which I dipped into only occasionally) and also from his fevered, schizophrenic tales of doom he submitted to rec.arts.erotica. We met face to face only in 1994, at the first (?) WWW conference. It was all dnereverri's doing, really. I remember taking him to the Caffe Florian in Hyde Park and his delight at finding decent vegan offerings. His trip summary later said, "He and Ellen look the same, almost."

There was someone else there too, I think. A Roy somebody? Roy Esteves? Escobar? Something like that. But I remember Tom. Tom was the cute one.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

M. d'Nereverri has a freakin LJ????

We have a Caffe Florian by the San Jose-Los Gatos city limits. They make a killer mocha.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

M. d'Nereverri has a freakin LJ????

I think he just has an account so he can be on keyne's friends list, but try him. :-)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Just did. He's the poster child for t.b's "Where are they now?"

I know! I know!

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

And M. d'Nereverri is damn cute!
Yum!

[pancua.livejournal.com]

agaran

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

He's a very, very, very, very, very, very, very (very?) very sweet man I met at Homeport (http://www.homeport.org/) at a number of catya and shayde's parties. I say "a number" because I met him briefly at several events there, and I don't remember really when familiarity became friendship. agaran and ghislaine are the incredibly devoted parents to two of the most adorable twins you could hope to meet. He's a radio ham and a private pilot, two things I'd love to learn more about.

Currently I'm trying to get him hired at my company, (http://www.gamelogic.com/) though it seems like everyone is rather dragging their heels over the process. :-)

Aw shucks, man.

[agaran.livejournal.com]

You say the nicest things. We need to have a date soon. Or I should take you flying. Or something.

[sulis-vt.livejournal.com]

dr_memory

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Heh, heh.

dr_memory was someone else who I knew first from the net. He was a participant on soc.motss and soc.bi back in the day. Having recently graduated from college, he'd taken an IT job at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston shortly before I was getting ready to move to Chicago, and looked me up.

So we met at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square, had coffee and shot the breeze for a while, then went on to see a movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111143/) and afterward, having nothing better to do, I gave him a ride to Lexington, where a school friend of his was throwing a house party for the weekend. And there I met --

Except you know, I think I'll save that story in case someone asks about them.

Nathan is scandalously funny, bitchy, and frighteningly smart. By day he works as an IT director for one startup or another. By night he tortures people with glee, stands New York City nightlife on its head, and conducts disturbing experiments with wasabi.

And I'm not even going to get into his hobbies.

One of Nathan's distinguishing characteristics is his hair. It is purple. While this is not actually unique, it is enough of a defining element of his personality that if you are trying to describe Nathan to someone who knows him only slightly, it is usually sufficient to say, "He's the one with the purple hair," and dispel all doubt.

[jss]

hammercock.

I will note there's a typo in your link, though: it's topaz_munro, not topaz-munro. The Shift key is your friend. (Ha, ha! Tim can't spell his own name!)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

hammercock I met originally, I think, as "Sorsha" on IRC. Or perhaps it was at a Suspects Clothing Swap at Generic House. Probably both concurrently. We used to bring baby Morgan -- and later baby Quinn -- around to Generic for the clothing swaps and occasionally Open Parlour Night, and hammercock was always thrilled to see and play with the kids. She is the deserving owner of the fabulousredhead.com (http://www.fabulousredhead.com) domain, a perpetually sunny and ferociously politically motivated person.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Awww. :) *smooch*

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

P.S.

1. The link is not a typo. Try it!


2. If you can't figure out why it works this way, you win a copy of the LiveJournal FAQs and a gently used copy of the Cricket Book.


3. I had the same reaction that you did when keyne wrote the link that way.
   

[crepuscular.livejournal.com]

numignost

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

When I arrived at Amherst in the fall of 1988, right away I made myself a fixture at the academic computer center, where I knew I'd find the kind of people I'd want to hang out with. I shortly began hearing tales about numignost, one of the legendary elder hackers who'd recently returned from a semester (or perhaps a year) in Germany.

numignost's mysterious and exotic reputation was further established when I learned that he -- at Amherst, where the timeshared systems all ran on the VAX/VMS operating system and all the students did their work in Pascal -- preferred to work in Unix and C. Unix software has traditionally been the lingua franca of university programming environments, and had a reputation, even among our savvier hackers, for being especially esoteric. It made a grand impression on me -- it was as if I were a beginning seminary student and, upon glancing in an older student's notebook, saw notes in the margin casually scribbled in Aramaic.

The first time I remember actually meeting numignost, he came down to the computer center to check his mail and struck up a conversation with Mike Mueller, one of the other grand old men down there. The conversation quickly turned to numignost's habit of writing "FNORD" all over campus. I promptly sent him a short message quoting something from Principia Discordia. When he checked his mail, he gasped, said, "He even knows the reference!" and spun around to face me, saying, "You're invited to my wine cooler party in the spring."

By the spring I was gone, spending a year in exile, and as far as I know the wine cooler party never happened anyway. But that didn't really matter to me.

what a surreal reflection

[numignost.livejournal.com]

Apparently geekdom is the sea in which I swim unaware.

[ceo]

bubblebabble.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, bubblebabble is actually someone who I don't know so well! bitty I know from one semester in college, when we were both working in the dishroom, and bubblebabble is her S.O. I don't remember if I met him first through bitty or awfief, who organized a bike ride around Cape Ann a couple of years ago that we both joined.

[panlin2000.livejournal.com]

Are you sure everyone on your friends list thinks it's a good idea that you post what you know about them and how you met?

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Me, I'd've friends-locked this meme. (Oh, wait, I did. :))